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.
I wonder why a building with a Washington state flag was listed as Omaha. Does anyone know where there is a Washington flag in Omaha?
This is great fun! Is anyone else having a problem with it accepting the last right name? Maybe it is accepting it but the image on the screen is not keeping up. Meanwhile, I love it.
I can’t stop playing this! I love that it drops you in a different place in each city each time it shows you the city.
Hands down the most fun quiz ever!
I’m learning that an awful lot of cities have streets named ‘Chestnut.’
I’m amazed by the high scores, I’m a terrible guesser! But this quiz is a ton of fun and I’m enjoying a lot anyway.
I’ve done just one of these and while I’m sure there are some issues to work out – can’t think of them yet – this is a lot of fun. Great job Darin!
I guess the best idea I’ve come up with is like…similar to how you have so many different geography quizzes that can be broken out into different types/versions, it’d be fun to do something like this broken down by state, or by region, etc
Okay, so I may need a version where I can get *a bit* more time ha. Again, tons of fun, but man 2 minutes can seem difficult (at least for me)
This is crazy fun. Great idea. You have to use a lot of different bases of knowledge.
I can’t take total credit…I had fun playing Geoguessr (geoguessr.com) and thought of this as an alternative.
Note to game: When you’re trying to make it hard for us, DON’T DROP SOMEONE RIGHT IN FRONT OF THE EMPIRE STATE BUILDING.
Man … I think this is one of those that’s a great idea on paper but just too hard in reality.
Well it’s not exactly a summer vacation but I guess it will have to do. I even got stuck in a fishing boat in New Orleans somehow!
ha…yeah occasionally you may get a street view stuck in a single place, I can’t control that but it should be very rare. you shouldn’t get any indoor locations though.
I did actually get the inside of a building in Washington DC
well, maybe a Google street view issue coding it as outdoor – the code should eliminate indoor ones but that may be a rare fluke.
interesting idea!
a quiz similar to GeoGuessr here – let me know your feedback – will do World/Europe/etc versions of this if it is popular.