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.
Another new quiz type!
I’m curious, I found one that’s “8-9” what does that mean, Darin?
Per instructions – 8-9 letters in the city name.
In the hard quiz I typed “Flanders”, the one in new York, but it did’t work (F was the square)
the one on long island
Nevermind, I checked and its in the wrong square
Flanders, NY is a CDP/hamlet and won’t be in my city-based quizzes.
Cool quiz!
I typed in “Columbia” for Columbia, MD in the hard quiz and it didn’t work (the hint was “C”). Is this a bug? Everything else worked.
It’s a planned community, so not incorporated like a city and not in the city-based quizzes.