First choose a difficulty by typing ‘beg’, ‘int’, ‘adv, or ‘exp’ – Beginner is 5 degrees longitude, Intermediate 2.5 degrees, Advanced 1 degrees, and Expert 0.5 degrees. Then, enter 50K+ population cities and all 50K+ population cities within that longitude will automatically fill in.

HOWEVER – for this quiz you can enter any 50K+ city for your first choice, but successive cities must be already within a blue band for you to answer them, so you must ‘expand’ the blue area in the east and west directions, you can’t start a new blue band with a gap away from a currently blue shaded area.

NOTE: You do get an ‘freebie’ pick to start working in North/South America as it cannot be crossed into from the rest of the world, so think of it as two expanding bands of blue, one in Africa/Eurasia/etc and one in North/South America.

hugequiz Premium members will see the 25 largest missed cities at the end of the quiz as large, purple markers.