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.
HOlland Michigan shows up as both the 42 and the 49th largest city. How is that?
One is the charter township.
There’s a city in Arizona just under 100,000, but when the quiz ends it doesn’t show up in the list of missed cities.
It’s a city that only just recently incorporated. Pretty much all the new additions to the top 50 in states appear to show their populations as the percentage correct at the end of the quiz and likely don’t show up in the list of missed cities.
Can you please update the populations to the 2025 estimates? I’m tired of seeing Salem, OR be bigger than Eugene, OR, because it’s not.
It is current, Salem is bigger based on 2025 estimates:
https://citypopulation.de/en/usa/cities/oregon/
This would be fun to play with a map version. Where you type in a name and the colored markers show up. Either way, I love it.
You can do it on a map by state:
https://hugequiz.com/quizzes/us-state-largest-cities-choose-state-number/
ridiculous, love it
I literally have no idea how it’s possible to even type, much less KNOW even half of these. I mean half the towns on the Alaska list are villages with less than a thousand people. There’s Just. no. way.
i refuse to believe that 16 people have gotten every single city correct
Right? I mean there’s just no way someone would off the top of their head know the fifty largest cities in every state.
Need more time! I was typing the whole time but couldn’t reach 500 fast enough to get a time bonus
I’ve added some – there are some good time bonuses for the Population and Rank By State categories at right too.