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World 500 Km Coverage Challenge

Directions

Choose any 50K+ World city, then continue naming 50K+ cities which are within 500 km of any previously named city. Please note – North/South America and the rest of the world are considered separate sections on this quiz. The game will not end if you haven’t begun one of them and then ‘jump’ over to it to begin working on it. So you get one free city to choose outside of the 500km distance if you want to start working on the section you haven’t started. But once you have started both NA/SA and Rest of World, you cannot guess a city outside a 500km circle or the quiz will end.

Naming notes: many places have similar names. For example, “Brest” is not unique. To choose Brest, France, simply type “brestfr”, using the first two letters of the country name…another example is “londonun”. Also, some answers require typing in other answers you may not want to guess. In this case, if you want to answer “Hamburg”, simply type it..”Ham, Belgium” will not be chosen. If you want simply “Ham” type ‘ham.’ with the period at the end. One other issue is multiple cities in the US with the same name, for these type in the state abbreviation and ‘us’ at the end – i.e. ‘jacksonvilleflus’ – if a place name outside the US has multiple locations in a country you can use ‘fuzhouch1’, ‘fuzhouch2’ etc for the Fuzhou’s in China.

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Bladselleri
19 days ago

I typed San Francisco with a dot for the US one and died to a city in Argentina. I guess it should be sanfranciscoar for that one since the US one is sanfranciscous?

Bladselleri
18 days ago
Reply to  darin

Thanks!

HadrienT2
2 months ago

How am I supposed to get Reykjavik ? It is not near any city and if I try it I get killed
Oran also does not work in Algeria, don’t know why

Last edited 2 months ago by HadrienT2
C-s-Stuff
1 month ago
Reply to  HadrienT2

Some other cities start with the letters “Oran” (hint: Orange, California, USA; idk what else)
Type “Oran.” with a period/full stop

Bladselleri
18 days ago
Reply to  HadrienT2

You are not supposed to get Reykjavik 🙂 A lot of cities are impossible to get without screwing yourself over. You can see that the high score is 8537 while the total number of cities is 8641, that means 104 cities are out of reach if you want to complete the rest of the map.

Hippa
2 months ago

It’s so dumb. I type Sydney, for Sydney, Nova Scotia, Canada. Which is, in fact, the answer, and i instantly lose half an hour’s progress. Didn’t have time to type Sydneyca, and why do so any cities not work? Like I have tried Wichita 100 times. Wichita, Wichitaus, Wichitaksus, Wichitakaus, Wichitakansasus, Wichitakansasunitedstates. Nothing works. This quiz needs serious fixing, it’s quite infuriating at the moment

gawungis
2 months ago
Reply to  Hippa

or maybe you can just read and understand the instructions like a normal person? its not very complicated

Broccoli
3 months ago

would love an Easy mode for this one

gawungis
6 months ago

every day i wake up and pray that this quiz is updated

atavoidirc
7 months ago

whens the easy version of this one coming

gawungis
7 months ago

Oh man I’m so close to maxing out, I’m 35 cities short of 8537 completely legit. Wish me luck guys

destructor4693
8 months ago

I tried Edimbourg and Copenhague and none work why ?

zAerospec
8 months ago

How would I go about entering Fort McMurray, Alberta, Canada? I have tried several different inputs and I cannot find one that seems to function for the place.

zAerospec
8 months ago
Reply to  zAerospec

I did some light research on the area and figured out it was entered in as Wood Buffalo, where Fort McMurray is the administrative office of the municipal region. My apologies for the hold-up.

Last edited 8 months ago by zAerospec
Mynamehasteeth
8 months ago

i may be stupid but how do i get Los Angeles or San Francisco? Losangelescaus doesn’t work

ephemer1s
8 months ago

tried to get to newfoundland via sydney, nova scotia, got sydney in australia

zAerospec
8 months ago
Reply to  ephemer1s

The general region nearby Sydney and Glace Bay, Nova Scotia, was amalgamated into Cape Breton, I assume to create a so-called city out of the Cape Breton municipality since Sydney had been amalgamated into it in 1995.

My apologies for the very late reply.

Last edited 8 months ago by zAerospec
sasha-sokol
8 months ago

Typing “St Paul” seems to give you both the one in Minnesota and the one in Réunion, for free! Interesting as I don’t think there’s another way to reach Réunion.

gawungis
8 months ago
Reply to  sasha-sokol

shhhhhhhhh

david1632646
9 months ago

Athens doesn’t work

gawungis
9 months ago

How do I get Fuzhou, Fujian, China? Tried Fuzhouch, Fuzhou1, Fuzhoufuch, Fuzhou., and some other variations.

gawungis
9 months ago
Reply to  darin

Thanks!

zAerospec
10 months ago

I don’t think it helps very much but I think it would be nice to have Reykjavik be independent from the other cities since there are no 50k+ population cities within the 500km radius. Australia might also be nice since Australia is very limited and eventually loses contact with other cities in 500km radius 🙂

Last edited 10 months ago by zAerospec
zAerospec
10 months ago
Reply to  darin

I would also like to point out that several cities in California, US do not interact when typed into the guessing bar. This includes cities such as Sacramento, Los Angeles, and anything that starts with San :/

Last edited 10 months ago by zAerospec
eltabarnako
1 year ago

I died at Medan, Indonesia because when I typed Medan it didn’t work so I tried to write Medanin for Medan, Indonesia and it killed me on Medani 🙁 🙁 🙁

Lotte
1 year ago

Any chance we could get a version of this that doesn’t immediately kill you upon a city out of range?

Lotte
1 year ago
Reply to  darin

Great! 🙂

Sverre123
1 year ago

Ulan-ude in russia doesn’t work

bigbrains030
1 year ago

I cant seem to spell Masshad or Mashad (Iran)

bigbrains030
1 year ago
Reply to  darin

Thats awesome. Love this quiz.

MrOcelotGuy
1 year ago

colón panama won’t work

MrOcelotGuy
1 year ago

I wish there was an unlimited time mode for fun

kaiwangle
1 year ago

This one is tough!
Can’s seem to get Hami (Xinjiang, China) or Kismayo (Somalia) to work
Thanks for all your maintenance on here btw

gawungis
8 months ago
Reply to  kaiwangle

Kismayo is spelled “Kismaayo” according to his source. Was having the same problem so I had a look.

bigbrains030
1 year ago

How should I spell Masqat, Muscat.. the capital of Oman

vwlou89
1 year ago

Hey, great quiz! Having an issue with what appears to be Sydney,NB / Cape Burton Regional Municipality. How’s that classified?

CFC1966
1 year ago

Is Reykjavik impossible to get?

NubNublet
1 year ago

Trying to do Coeur d’Alene which has a population of over 50k, but it seems when this quiz was last updated it had a population of under 50k.

atavoidirc
1 year ago
Reply to  darin

a solution would be to split the leaderboards between old data and new data

Shoutyboy
1 year ago

Fort McMurray doesn’t seem to work despite it showing up on the map (Alberta canada)

bigbrains030
1 year ago

I cant seem to complete Jacksonville. I tried Jacksonvilleus and Jacksonville.

bigbrains030
1 year ago
Reply to  bigbrains030

I also have trouble completing Kuwait. nice quiz btw 🙂

MajorHurricane
1 year ago

Lima, Peru doesn’t work for me, despite there being a 5-10M marker there. I also tried “limape”. Frustrating after making it down Central America into South America

alcas
1 year ago

Amazing quiz! Just one technical note. In cases where two or more 50k+ cities in the same country have the same name, there does not seem to be any way to enter them. Examples are Jacksonville (US), Columbia (US), and Fuzhou (China). In the US version of this quiz, you handled this by appending numbers that indicate the city’s population rank (so “madisonwi1” to enter the larger of the two Madisons in WI), but that doesn’t seem available in this quiz (none of the following work: “fuzhou”, “fuzhou.”, “fuzhouch”, “fuzhouch1”, or “fuzhou1”).

Tankey6
1 year ago

Well, I tried Anchorage on my first guess and got no nearby cities, so guess I found an impossible city!

CaBoo
1 year ago
Reply to  Tankey6

Same goes for Reykjavik, Iceland 🙂

AlexPlayzz
1 year ago

Kuwait City does not appear to work despite having 3+ million population.

ThroneDiscs
1 year ago

San Salvador, El Salvador doesn’t seem to work for me

Cheese777
1 year ago

it won’t let you do cities like Columbus, OH and Jacksonville, FL

GrogTheTH1Rd
1 year ago

How come Novgorod and Nizhniy Novgorod don’t work?

also I tried putting Sinop, Turkey (which has 57k) and ended up with some place in the center of Brazil, not sure if there is anything that can be done about that one tbh

TheCaroe
1 year ago

How do people get the score of 8537? Is there a way to get from SA/NA to Europe or Asia? Since some can get that high score?

bertiok
1 year ago
Reply to  TheCaroe

Nah man.. you be trippin’

Tankey
1 year ago
Reply to  TheCaroe

There isn’t. You get a free “jump” from NA/SA to the rest of the world, and you can’t create a chain of cities to get there.

Roulings
1 year ago

How do I input London, UK? I’ve tried a couple inputs, such as londongb and londonuk but it doesn’t seem to work.

jpod31
1 year ago

Also where do you go in Australia to get central aus and then to get to indo/png?

jpod31
1 year ago

Melbourne, Aus?

jpod31
1 year ago

Why dont most capital cities work like London, Madrid etc?

jpod31
1 year ago
Reply to  darin

that’s great, thanks. Figured it out in the end but really good for those doing the quiz for the first time.

Fergenaprido
6 years ago

Tried for Fargo when I already had Minneapolis. “fargo” did nothing, so I tried “fargous” and the quiz ended. I don’t think I had the 1 jump yet either.

Fergenaprido
5 years ago
Reply to  Fergenaprido

This still happens. Definitely hadn’t jumped to the other continent this time.
Also, in the instructions it says “SEE NAMING NOTES below quiz.” but there are no notes on this page.
And how does one enter Jacksonville FL (or any other city where there are 2 or more with the same name in the same country)?

AnAngryYordle
1 year ago
Reply to  Fergenaprido

you can only jump between the Americas and the other continents once.

Cheese777
1 year ago
Reply to  Fergenaprido

‘fargo.’

Danny
6 years ago

I’d love to see a version of this quiz with extra lives. It’s so annoying to have the entire quiz completely end when you’re on a roll.

anonymous
6 years ago

How do you enter Muscat, Oman?

Julie
8 years ago

Aaaaah! I entered san francisco. for the US city and died. (It was definitely valid, just not the proper input, I guess.)

soundscape
8 years ago
Reply to  Julie

This quiz can be tricky because of the duplicate names… “sanfrancisco.” will activate a small city in Argentina. For the US city you have to enter san franciscous.

Finnoz
9 years ago

doing well until i put in palma sp . game over. i thing it thought i was typing palmas.

bsd987
9 years ago

Tanta comes up whilst typing Tantan. Port More still hasn’t been fixed.

soundscape
9 years ago

How can San Pedro (Ivory Coast) be entered? I’ve tried several combinations but none worked. Also, is there any way to know the maxiumum score for this quiz? 8640 is a theoretical number, but some places like Australia, New Zealand, Honolulu, Anchorage, Reykjavik, Cape Verde, Mauritius, Fiji etc are not reachable… unless you start there but it’s kind of dumb. 🙂

soundscape
9 years ago
Reply to  soundscape

Ok found it, it’s San Pedroco. I was thinking the country in terms of Ivory Coast.

theoden
9 years ago

Love the quizzes by the way! Sorry to complain!

theoden
9 years ago

I was done with NA/SA (or at least what I could do), and then typed in Dublin Ireland to try to start the “Rest of the World” section but the game ended when I typed in Dublin. I don’t know why…

soundscape
9 years ago
Reply to  darin

The only thing I noticed is that Dublin, CA is not featured (or can’t be entered) and I couldn’t find a way to enter Athens, GA… as per your instrucions it should be Athensus. No big deal, they’re far from essencial and given the scope of this quiz it must be a pain to get all names right.

soundscape
9 years ago

Portmore (Jamaica) needs a period beacuse of Port Moresby… I don’t think it’s that clever to go to Oceania for this particular quiz but all options should be available the same.

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