Type 'easy' or 'hard' to begin the quiz. Easy is a 5-degree grid, hard is a 2.5-degree grid. Then, try to name the THIRD LARGEST city in each grid square. To name a city, you must first click on the grid square to make it have a GREEN border. Then, type in the city answer for that square followed by a '.' (a period). You are given a score from 0 to 100 based on your answer's population compared to the 3rd largest city accepted in that square (100 being you named the 3rd largest city). If you guess the largest city it will be based on the ratio of the 3rd largest city's population to the largest.
AK and HI are NOT included in this quiz as they often have grid squares with only one answer for this quiz.
At the end of the quiz the 3rd largest city will show in each unanswered square, and for those answered the 3rd largest city will be listed next to your score if you didn't answer it.
Writing on 16 July 2026, I’m pretty sure Montana and parts of WY and SD have become isolated. Starting from Rapid City/Box Elder SD and moving northwest to Columbia Falls, MT (Glacier National Park), if you enter these 25 cities/places you will find 25 places are “covered” — that is, there are no more nodes to expand to. In the non-easy 100mi version, these are not isolated; for example Rapid City/Box Elder can link to Chadron NE to the south.
Box Elder, SD
Rapid City, SD
Sturgis, SD
Spearfish, SD
Belle Fourche, SD
Gillette, WY
Sheridan, WY
Powell, WY
Cody, WY
Billings, MT
Laurel, MT
Lewistown, MT
Great Falls, MT
Livingston, MT
Bozeman, MT
Belgrade, MT
Helena, MT
Butte, MT
Anaconda, MT
Missoula, MT
Hamilton, MT
Polson, MT
Kalispell, MT
Whitefish, MT
Columbia Falls, MT
This is in addition to the 5 known “isolated” places, for a total of 30 — which lines up with the current high scores being 5602 / 5632. Thirty missing.
Geting 100% is impossible. Miles City, Havre, Pierre, Page, Elko, and Winnemucca all have no other cities within 100 miles of them. They should be removed from the quiz
+1.
I’m so glad you posted this along with the specific cities. Thought I was going crazy when my go to tiny towns from other quizzes weren’t coming through.
page is possible to get
I think you are missing burns not page. you can get Page via Hurricane and Kanab
Burns isn’t 5K. Page is gettable, but if you look at the top results all are missing 5, which would be Miles City, Havre, Pierre, Elko, and Winnemucca.
It would be nice if this one told you which states you had completed so you knew when to give up on completing one, great quiz!