The way I had to enter the answers required me to hand-type all 200 capitals. I'm a glass-half-full kind of guy, so I would like to focus on the fact that I typed 1,618 of the 1,624 characters correctly, for a 99.63% accuracy rate! Anyway, I have now made the noted corrections and caught a few more. Hopefully the quiz is more fun now!
If there wasn't a yellow box, people could just type all of the capitals they could think of and get most of the answers without paying any attention to the last letter. It's more of a challenge to try to think of a capital that ends in a specific letter.
I see that point of view, but on the other hand, you can basically still do this, you just have the extra step of tabbing to the cell.
In other words, a yellow box makes most sense where lining up the answer to the question is the answer; in this case, because the answer contains what you're lining it up to, you're not proving any additional knowledge, just giving someone the additional clerical overhead of tabbing to the box.
To put another way, if you were to ask the country, and I was filling in capitals, it would make sense to make it a yellow box, because I could enter all the capitals and get them all right without knowing which country it's a capital of. But in this case, you can't really say that you could get them all right by naming random capitals without knowing what letter they end in.
And they couldn't get most of the answers because each slot gets "taken", so it doesn't help to name more randoms, as most capitals end in a few common letters anyway.
Deliberately going alphabetical I got 5 (I knew I was gonna struggle that way so tried it like that first). Answering randomly as I thought of capitals I got them all.
The official name of Washington is District of Columbia, and is more commonly known as Washington DC, which should count as ending with either A or C, not N.
Great quiz, great fun despite what others say. Nominated as it deserves to be featured.
Had to stop the time to get the last four. And the last two were not even the letters with one city only...
In other words, a yellow box makes most sense where lining up the answer to the question is the answer; in this case, because the answer contains what you're lining it up to, you're not proving any additional knowledge, just giving someone the additional clerical overhead of tabbing to the box.
To put another way, if you were to ask the country, and I was filling in capitals, it would make sense to make it a yellow box, because I could enter all the capitals and get them all right without knowing which country it's a capital of. But in this case, you can't really say that you could get them all right by naming random capitals without knowing what letter they end in.
And they couldn't get most of the answers because each slot gets "taken", so it doesn't help to name more randoms, as most capitals end in a few common letters anyway.
Good exercise :)
Brilliant quiz btw, nearly got 100% but got flummoxed on Zagreb!