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US 100 Mile Coverage Challenge
DirectionsChoose any 5K+ US city (AK & HI not included), then continue naming 5K+ cities which are within 100 miles of any previously named city. Naming notes: many places have similar names. For example, “Jacksonville” is not unique. To choose Jacksonville, FL, simply type “jacksonvillefl”, and so on. Also some answers require typing in other answers you may not want to guess. In this case, if you want to answer “Virginia Beach, VA”, simply type it..”Virginia, MN” will not be chosen. If you want simply “Virginia” type ‘virginia.’ with the period at the end. NOTE that typing in “phoenix” will not answer Phoenix, AZ – so that means either there is another place in another state where you must put “phoenixaz”, or another city starting with “Phoenix”, which is the case in this example – so typing ‘phoenix.’ will get you your answer. Finally, in a couple cases there are multiple places of the same name in a single state. Madison, WI is an example. To choose the largest Madison (typically the one you want), type ‘madisonwi1’ – the rest are ‘madisonwi2’ and so on (need the state too as there are madison’s in other states) – this is quite rare. So basically, if the city isn’t coming up after you type the name, try adding a “.” after, or the state abbreviation, or in rare cases the state abbr plus a number.
Quiz Takers 
The SIX “isolated” cities you can’t reach are: ElkoNV, WInnemuccaNV, Miles CItyMT, HavreMT, PageAZ, and PierreSD
i have a weird glitch where it says ‘0/0’ next to each population range and i cant type anything in. i dont know if this is a common glitch but its happened to me multiple times on multiple quizzes
hmm working for me… can you try clearing your cache?
How come the game ends if I start with Vancouver, WA and then type in “Centralia, WA”, they are only 82 miles apart? Similarly with Ocala, FL and Gainesville, FL which are only less than 40 miles apart?
just ‘centralia’ and ‘gainesville’ don’t answer as there are other locations with those names – you need to type in ‘centraliawa’ and ‘gainesvillefl’ per the directions. don’t type the commas that might be ending it too, ill try to fix that.
Wouldn’t accept Chicago.
per directions, it’s ‘chicago.’ with the period at the end.
Thank you!
Can’t seem to get any of the big cities in michigan
there a are a lot of of places that are duplicated there. try it with state and number. ‘LansingMI1’ etc…
yes, MI has a number of places named the same that are a city and also a charter township, so you will need the number at the end for these.
I’m finding it impossible to play Blythe, CA, no matter how I type it in. I can clearly see the arrow on the map for it. It seems to be a crucial connection if you’re trying to get from AZ’s most populated cities or Las Vegas down to Yuma and over to San Diego via any of the Imperial Valley’s largest incorporated cities. I’ve tried inputting it every which way, but no dice.
Blythe. with the period per naming notes (there is another place starting with Blythe)
i have hopefully fixed the partial entering of a city triggering another city issue – but if any remain let me know and I will fix and delete the comment. you may have to refresh the quiz and hold CTRL while refreshing to get the current data file.
i’ve updated this with the latest 2020 populations so there should be a good number more possible now.
How are people getting above 5351?
Once you get Bismarck ND if you get Manden right next to it it gives you Minot.
There are definitely some cities you just *can’t* get. I started with Pierre, SD one time. Nothing within 100 miles of it (at least within the population range). XD
Page, AZ also has the same issue. Marquette, MI likely has this issue, although Sault Ste Marie my be in range, with Petoskey and Traverse City in range of that, then Cadillac and Mount Pleasant…
Can anyone test this to see if they can Escape The Upper Peninsula?
Escaping the UP isn’t very hard, but you need to go the long way around Lake Michigan–Marquette has lots of other cities in range, but Sault Ste Marie isn’t one of them.
Montana has two such cities! (Havre and Miles City)
Also the farthest north you can cross the Great Plains is Kansas into Colorado. There’s a clean gap from northwest Kansas to the Montana-Alberta border.