First choose any Europe 10K+ pop city by entering it and choosing it in the drop-down box. Then, name any Europe 10K+ city in each 100 km circle/ring as the rings expand outward from your city of choice, trying to name SECOND LARGEST city in each circle. The first circle will include your city of choice as a possible answer.
PLEASE NOTE - You must type a '.' (period) after each city to submit it to prevent answering another city with a name you would be have to type to get your answer. If multiple cities have the name you submitted, only the largest one will be counted.
You accumulate points based on the population of the city you named in relation to the second largest city in the circle. A smaller city’s point total will be the ratio of its population to the largest, so if you name a city of 75K people and the largest city has 100K, you get 75 points. Naming the largest city will get you points based on the ratio of the 2nd largest city's population to the largest city's.
When you run out of time or end the quiz, you will see the current ring’s 2nd largest city at right (under ‘Answer Stats’ by your coordinates).
For example, if you choose ‘Paris’ – you will be shown a circle of radius 100 km centered at Paris. Naming any city in this circle (including Paris) will cause another ‘ring’ of radius 100 km to appear outside that circle, however - you will want to try naming the SECOND LARGEST city you can to get more points. After completing that circle, you now need to name any 10K+ Europe city in the new ring (but not within any previous circles/rings), again trying to name the 2nd largest city. If there are not two cities within the next ring of that distance, the ring will keep expanding by that distance until two cities fall within it.
Updated with the new 1K+ Europe cities data set so there will be more cities on some of the options now.
maybe its me but the percentage counter seems off (15 top cities +germany+uk only gives 5%) and the ‘finished country counter’ stays on 0.
Yeah, “finished country counter” isn’t working for me either, still.
I see Arnavutköy showing up in the European quizzes now. Isn’t that part of Istanbul?
Per citypopulation.de it is considered a separate city.
Huh, well that’s new. Feels like an error based on information elsewhere online, but can’t argue with the source 🙂
Though I do wonder what they mean by “The 2017 and 2022 population figures of cities in municipal provinces are calculated summarizing the population of selected neighborhoods.” – Makes it sound like citypop.de calculated the results on their own.
And sorry for the delayed response. I finally figured out how to find my past comments on this site. Only took me ten years 😛
One minor issue: the Top Cities counter has a bug as I suddenly jumped to 344 on a 130 cities quiz. And a minor detail… didn’t Kosovo use to have a border?
if you can recreate the Top Cities bug let me know what city you typed in to jump to 344 – i’m not seeing anything wrong. Kosovo doesn’t have an outline for itself on the quizzes where you can zoom in all the way.
Some of the smaller countries don’t show up in the list at the bottom, and they didn’t seem to update in the city counter right away. Also, some of the Belgian cities, such as Antwerp, don’t look like they have the correct coordinates. I really like this quiz and the US version; don’t know how I missed them before now. Would be cool to have a World version plus ones for other continents too.
ah I know the issue…ill fix those things later on tonight.
ok added Malta and Andorra’s entries in the bottom rows. Belgium is fixed.
Weird. For the top 3 cities, my counter stopped at 113, but my score was nonetheless correctly saved with 116.
i’m going to remove the stats feature til i can get it working properly for this and the us version.
Why are the shapes of Lebanon, West Bank and Gaza included when they aren’t in Europe? And something is definitely up with the 50 hardest and 50 missed and the percentages. For example, I fail to believe 93.33% of people knew Vlore yet only 86.66% got Amsterdam.
For some reason, the outlines of the countries you mentioned are always included in the Europe quizzes. The statistics issue is weird though. Never heard of Vlore 🙂
On the other hand, Kosovo’s borders aren’t there. I think you gotta ask Mapquest about it. The 50 hardest/missed lists are definitely broken.
There’s something up with the “50 missed” and “50 hardest” on this one – “50 missed” only shows me ones which I DID get, and “50 hardest” mixes up some of the ones I did get with some which I didn’t.
Same issue here.