First choose any World 50K+ pop city by entering it and choosing it in the drop-down box. Then, name any World 50K+ city in each 500 km 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 ‘Paris’ – you will be shown a circle of radius 500 km centered at Paris. Naming any city in this circle (including Paris) will cause another ‘ring’ of radius 500 km 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 50K+ World 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.
New flag quiz type – there may be some color issues, so I’ll have to tweak it I think, let me know in comments below the issue with any flags.
It is a great idea however each round at least for me seems to have at lease one impossible case. For example I just had Vanuatu, with 6 different shades of green to choose from, 3 of which were not distinguishable on my screen… Maybe build in some code that prevents too similar colors from being displayed? Or just reduce the color palette e.g. from 10 to 6?
Yeah they are randomly chosen incorrect colors, I did make it so they aren’t super close to the correct ones but let me see if i can make the difference a little greater.
Serbia is a similar case. I get basically 1 white, 1 green-ish, and the remainder are all shades of red and blue. To me that makes somehow no sense.
Not sure but the randomizer, but I keep gettin’ all those notorious G-countries 😀