First choose any US city by entering it and choosing it in the drop-down box. Then, name any US city in each 100 mile 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 ‘Chicago’ – you will be shown a circle of radius 100 miles centered at Chicago. Naming any city in this circle (including Chicago) will cause another ‘ring’ of radius 100 miles 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 US 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.
FYI just updated with most recent population estimates. This quiz isn’t live so was due for an update.
My record has been sitting for almost two years. I’ve been looking forward to someone beating this or my records on the UK and European variants. Considering it’s been updated I might give it another shot again
Was hoping to do this one today (Feb-3) but says its not available even though its free first 5 days of the month?
This one is always Premium Only (thus the title) as the Google Directions API is quite costly.
Why is this not free to play on June 3rd?? It is supposed to be free for the first 5 days of the month?
The ones that say Premium Only in the title are always Premium Only – in this case the ones that use Google Directions are much more expensive to run which is why they are always Premium.
Tried to go from Boston to Salem, MA. Didn’t realize it was only 44k, sent all the way back to Oregon lol (I started in Seattle).
Pittsburg, CA. ugh.
needs a state with every city. having to type half a word and then back typing sucks
You should be required to type in the state. Tried this quiz multiple times, put in a city I thought would work, and ended up on the opposite side of the country.
Who’da thunk Charleston, WV only had 48k? Off to South Carolina I go, whoops.