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.
Michigan showed up a lot for my first time on this quiz. Lol.
Love this! I am enjoying a lot of your quizzes, but this one is now my favorite.
Unless the image seems to be very obvious right off the bat, I almost automatically guess CA, IL, IN, NJ, NY. Half the time it seems like it’s one of those 5 states.
Another fantastic quiz. There is a lot of benefit in guessing CA and NJ before you know which state it is. 😀
This is so much fun! Is there any chance you’ll be adding more cities to this? I’ve played a few times now and am getting a lot of repeats.
hmm there are a few thousand cities it can choose from each time you play. are there certain specific cities you are seeing a lot?
Sorry, I guess I meant that I am seeing a lot of NJ and IL. I am seeing a few cities a few times but I don’t remember which ones they are. Sorry to be a bother!
oh most likely due to them having lots of 5k cities 🙂
alright, thanks!
ah, here’s one I’ve gotten 4 or 5 times: Bath, NY
This is an awesome one, I could do this all day!
go crazy! 🙂
This one was fun! One of them was a town a couple hours from me that I got pretty fast.
yes I have all labels on for this quiz – so you may get lucky seeing the state name in a place’s label. but it seemed more fun this way and too difficult to get anything quickly without labels.