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Find The Mystery City Using Color Clues - Randomized

To start, name any of the top 200 cities by population. The redder it appears, the closer you are. When you guess the mystery city, the quiz is over - you win!
Also try the random country version and random capital version!
HUGE thanks to Pandora49 for the idea and the map, and to Stewart for helping with the CSS!
The mystery city changes every time you play!
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Simon1006
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First submittedApril 6, 2021
Times taken112,227
Average score18.0%
Rating4.43
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Guadalajara
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Shantou
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Wuhan
Taiyuan
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Xi'an
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Medan
Saint Petersburg
London
Yangon
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Hamburg
Chittagong
The Ruhr
Paris
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Berlin
Moscow
Frankfurt
Dakar
Madrid
Kolkata
Kathmandu
Casablanca
Barcelona
Milan
Kiev
Tashkent
Lucknow
Kanpur
Algiers
Bhilai
New Delhi
Rawalpindi
Gujranwala
Rome
Lahore
Faisalabad
Nagpur
Jaipur
Kabul
Naples
Bamako
Chennai
Hyderabad
Indore
Colombo
Mashhad
Istanbul
Bangalore
Ahmedabad
Surat
Pune
Ankara
Abidjan
Athens
Mumbai
Izmir
Tehran
Karachi
Kumasi
Accra
Cape Town
Isfahan
Baghdad
Damascus
Lagos
Ibadan
Tel Aviv
Amman
Alexandria
Kuwait City
Dubai
Cairo
Kano
Abuja
Durban
Riyadh
Douala
Johannesburg
Yaoundé
Maputo
Luanda
Jeddah
Kinshasa
Sana'a
Khartoum
Addis Ababa
Dar es Salaam
Kampala
Mystery City (Nairobi)
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103 Recent Comments
Simon1006
+29
Level 67
Apr 7, 2021
Updated so that you can see which city was the mystery city if you didn't guess it!
Simon1006
+11
Level 67
Apr 8, 2021
Another update to fix the geographic spread of the possible answers: especially around northeastern China and northeastern USA a lot of answers were grouped together
Luprec
+13
Level 61
Apr 10, 2021
Excellent quiz! My only comment would be that the shades of red are too similar. Once I get a red city, it's kind of a guessing game.
Maximirb13
+2
Level 78
Apr 10, 2021
It can be difficult to tell the difference but once you play more it gets easier to see differences between very similar shades of red
Simon1006
+1
Level 67
Apr 11, 2021
I agree they are quite close together. I chose these colours to adhere to Pandora's series, which uses these shades as well. They were chosen so that it is also playable for colorblind users: if you turn it into a rainbow it'll be impossible to tell for colorblind users what is close and what is far
sacheth9
+1
Level 65
Apr 11, 2021
That's right. The 'guessing game' adds to the difficulty of the quiz, and expanding the variety of colors wouldn't really do anything unless if the city is in a very remote area, but that would make it too easy. I personally think it's a little more fun when you have to guess the nearby cities. So, if rainbow colors were to be used, it wouldn't really make much of a difference since 1 of the colors would cover an area relatively close to the mystery city.
1ProximaCentauri
+3
Level 53
Apr 12, 2021
Is it really showing Hyderabad as Dark Red when Moscow is the mystery city.
Maximirb13
+5
Level 78
Apr 13, 2021
It is not the darkest of red but it is still a little dark. This is because it is not distance, it is cities in between Hyderabad and Moscow. Although these two cities are very far apart, since Hyderabad is kind of central India there are only some Indian, Pakistani, and middle eastern cities (and a few more) in between which is few enough for it to be a darker red color than you may expect by distance (although it is really not that dark red).
sacheth9
+1
Level 65
Apr 22, 2021
^ correct
Malbaby
+3
Level 71
Apr 14, 2021
Great quiz, a lot of fun slowly getting near the target before the time runs out.
Simon1006
+1
Level 67
Apr 15, 2021
Thank you Mal!
thegoatisgoaty
+1
Level 75
Apr 16, 2021
Finished in 6 seconds ez
Fuse
+2
Level 80
Apr 19, 2021
Nice quiz, and well done for the feature!
KingLW
+1
Level 63
Apr 19, 2021
Got blessed with Tokyo in 6 seconds lol, great quiz
Findlay
+1
Level 80
Apr 20, 2021
Same thing happened to me. I typed Cairo and it was pretty pail. Typed Beijing and it was much darker. Then Tokyo and bam!
life19myme
+1
Level 67
Apr 19, 2021
Just typed one city and got the result! Nailed it😁 Great quiz
sacheth9
+2
Level 65
Apr 19, 2021
Congrats on the feature! Now all quizzes in the series have a star next to it :P
Simon1006
+1
Level 67
Apr 20, 2021
Thanks!
Gllombfek
+1
Level 54
May 10, 2021
I started with London, then guessed Birmingham, which was the city!
Maximirb13
+2
Level 78
Apr 19, 2021
Congrats on the featured!
Simon1006
+1
Level 67
Apr 20, 2021
Thanks!
frognbuff
+2
Level 85
Apr 20, 2021
Can't crap on the concept, because that is awesome, but good lord this was also the most frustrating quiz I have taken on this site
UG332
+2
Level 72
Apr 20, 2021
You and Stewart knocked it out of the park for this quiz, amazing job!
Simon1006
+1
Level 67
Apr 20, 2021
Thank you!
CompleteTwaddle
+1
Level 41
Apr 20, 2021
first try (beijing)!!!!
plattitude
+2
Level 94
Apr 20, 2021
You ought to change the answer for Washington to be Washington D.C. Then you'll get the standard type-ins for the city, as just DC doesn't work right now.
Simon1006
+1
Level 67
Apr 20, 2021
Fair point, I'll have a look into changing that
Simon1006
+1
Level 67
Apr 29, 2021
This change is currently pending approval
Simon1006
+1
Level 67
Apr 30, 2021
DC will now work
AlexThirkell
+4
Level 74
Apr 20, 2021
Really difficult! I don't know if my eyes/brain aren't good enough, but the dots all look the same colour when I'm in the right general area and there are dozens to choose from...

I'll keep plugging away...

edit: I got it with Rotterdam, and I swear Cairo and Damascus were the same colour as London and Ruhr! Optician time I think...

Yoshimano
+2
Level 66
Apr 20, 2021
One has to be somehow lucky if one isn't familiar with the top 200 (yes, some here don't)

Great quiz, thanks!

VirusSlo
+3
Level 72
Apr 21, 2021
Not for me. Too difficult to tell apart different shades of red. I just kept bombing India.
InfiniteBulk
+1
Level 73
Apr 22, 2021
That's why you do a different strategy and guess in different regions and slowly narrow your distance between guessed cities.
martay
+3
Level 69
Apr 24, 2021
Koahsiung??? I had zero chance.
1ProximaCentauri
+2
Level 53
May 2, 2021
Ouch. What Unluck.
chailattee
+1
Level 68
May 10, 2021
I got it in 5: Tokyo, Osaka, Beijing, Shanghai, Harbin
TTVsnipperr00
+1
Level 20
May 10, 2021
mine was lima
kiwiquizzer
+2
Level 68
May 11, 2021
Bhilai! That was unfortunate.
kiwiquizzer
+1
Level 68
May 11, 2021
Ho chi minh! Excellent :-)
kiwiquizzer
+1
Level 68
May 11, 2021
Xian! Got it. This is really fun and addictive.
Maximirb13
+1
Level 78
May 12, 2021
Very addictive
Luma
+1
Level 46
May 12, 2021
Damn, I got Cape Town in 3 guesses.
Rogemann
+1
Level 28
May 14, 2021
Wow. Jeddah with 2 seconds left to push me into lvl 15 and let me comment this. Great quiz!
Angbo
+1
Level 67
Jun 6, 2021
Naples again...

Lucky!

Szatan
+1
Level 61
Jun 6, 2021
I got it on my 3rd try, first was some city next to Tehran and then it was Shanghai which I was about to write🤷🏻‍♂️. But once I got US I just started spamming east US and Canadian cities till I got Philadelphia lol
pinu
+1
Level 55
Jun 6, 2021
wow i am one of the lucky people - my mystery city was st. petersburg and it was maybe my fifth guess :)
SomeDude59888888
+1
Level 44
Jun 6, 2021
My phone didn't tell me what the city was. Do you know why this might have happened?
Simon1006
+2
Level 67
Jun 6, 2021
It might have been off the screen as the SVG is not fully visible in one go on mobile
weirdali
+1
Level 51
Jun 6, 2021
Somehow managed to get it on my first guess! That was some amazing luck
Willard
+3
Level 41
Jun 6, 2021
Cologne and Dusseldorf are two different cities. Not sure why they're together as an answer.
Simon1006
+4
Level 67
Jun 6, 2021
It is based on this quiz, which uses the urban area data from citypopulation.de . Here the Ruhr is divided into two large agglomerations: The Ruhr (with Essen, Dortmund, and so on), and Cologne / Düsseldorf. While they are two different cities, they are in the same urban area according to citypopulation.de. The population numbers of for example Rotterdam also include The Hague and many more cities and towns around it to get to 3 million people.
Apprentice03
+2
Level 65
Jun 6, 2021
I got the answer, Dallas, with two tries!
Shamooski19
+1
Level 70
Jun 6, 2021
SHEESH I got the mystery city (Luanda) in 3 answers.
maximeloon
+1
Level 55
Jun 6, 2021
I got Luanda 2 times in a row... Is this rigged?
Simon1006
+3
Level 67
Jun 6, 2021
This quiz is currently getting a take every few seconds, meaning any answer will be repeated quite often between users: there's only 50 possibilities. The chance of getting the same mystery city twice in a row is 2%, so that should happen a lot with the amount of takes this is getting now
i3enjji
+1
Level 38
Jun 6, 2021
this is amazing
Godfish23
+2
Level 68
Jun 6, 2021
Got very lucky guessing Tokyo ---> Beijing ---> Wuhan - a certain pandemic probably left that city right at the front of my mind.
mightythor
+2
Level 68
Jun 6, 2021
I find I waste a lot of time looking between the legend and the highlit cities trying to determine where they are on the scale. I think it would be a big improvement to use a progression of different colors, rather than shades of a single color.
Simon1006
+1
Level 67
Jun 6, 2021
Please see my answer to @Luprec above
unknown2000
+1
Level 47
Jun 7, 2021
Oh no, after unsuccessfully finding the city I realized red was close and not far, I was looking from the wrong side of the map.
kiwiquizzer
+1
Level 68
Jun 7, 2021
Tokyo, it is pale red, so I type London. Boom got it! What???!
mas628
+2
Level 58
Jun 7, 2021
First guess was London and I got it first try lol
NPSWild
+1
Level 56
Jun 7, 2021
I got Wuhan, and don't feel like it is a coincidence.
txv2
+2
Level 58
Jun 7, 2021
Great idea! But color gradient could be better...a lot of dark reds look the same.
IlikeLuigi
+1
Level 73
Jun 8, 2021
I am horrible at cities I don't even know why I tried this quiz but I have 5 points because I guessed Washington Hong Kong Beijing
NPSWild
+1
Level 56
Jun 9, 2021
I guess miami first then atlanta then mexico city and won.
levic
+2
Level 71
Jul 2, 2021
I tried my city, São Paulo, it was pale white. So I tried an opposite city, Tokyo, and got it. Great quiz.
PenguinTorpedo
+3
Level 49
Jul 10, 2021
Maybe im just bad with colors, but i think its kinda confusing and hard to tell how close you are. Why not use a larger spectrum, from red to green, or blue to red?
Simon1006
+2
Level 67
Jul 11, 2021
So going red to any other colour won't affect the amount of colours present, the only way that would happen is by going through multiple colours on the colour scale. However, that would make this unplayable for colorblind people. Hence I chose to go red to white, also following Pandora49s colour scheme.
QuizesOnAnything
+1
Level 30
Aug 26, 2021
It took me ages and then i got it first try on an attempt (Rio)
FlyingG
+1
Level 68
Sep 8, 2021
Easy I got Paris :P
axkv2509
+1
Level 59
Dec 7, 2021
First guess, Tokyo. 0:01
LAP3UNC
+1
Level 91
Jan 20, 2022
Got Guiyang....
Kenneth3748
+1
Level 52
Apr 28, 2022
Lol I just guessed Beijing and it worked 0.00 seconds lol
spyish
+1
Level 22
May 29, 2022
How did i get it on second guess-
GeographywithAdi
+1
Level 62
Dec 4, 2022
NO WAY I GUESSED MUMBAI FIRST GUESS AND THAT WAS THE CITY
poshoposhoposho
+1
Level 72
Dec 23, 2022
Time Used

0:02

Best Time

0:02

bentshaggyoil
+1
Level 61
Jan 14, 2023
ARGHHH! Typed Beijing, spelled it wrong twice, time ran out, and that was the city
FreeStater
+1
Level 81
Jan 17, 2023
Second. Beijing it was.
DrussIV
+3
Level 65
Feb 5, 2023
Cool concept but the color gradient is horrendous. I thought Istanbul was dark red and I was close, but no, it was South Africa...that's half a world away.
Dollyfroggy
+2
Level 63
Sep 14, 2023
Same with Tokyo and Brisbane.
Petetheneed
+1
Level 56
Feb 10, 2023
Haha, it was the first city in typed in.
Fianchetto
+1
Level 79
Feb 24, 2023
Third try.
superquizzer
+1
Level 70
Mar 23, 2023
I guessed New York City, then Beijing, then London and got it right.
CAS1306
+1
Level 76
May 18, 2023
HAHAHAHAAAHHA **** you Nagopur and rando asian citires
Eugen
+2
Level 60
Jul 10, 2023
Kyiv is spelled Kyiv
Simon1006
+2
Level 67
Jul 11, 2023
I'll change that during the next update, because it'll reset the quiz due to the way this is set up
jargoun
+2
Level 50
Jul 12, 2023
Probably the best quiz I've played on here (been on this site for over 10 years)
Dollyfroggy
+1
Level 63
Sep 14, 2023
First quiz I've gotten 4/5 points for 20/200...
AmChad
+1
Level 61
Nov 30, 2023
First guess was Ankara. It was the mystery city.
JoshiLiao
+1
Level 47
Dec 20, 2023
on my life i got the answer on the first try it was beijing btw
Angelin
+1
Level 33
Jan 6, 2024
I got it in 4 guesses, and I don't even know my capitals!
Cataclan
+1
Level 56
Jan 11, 2024
LOL THE ORIGANLS ANSWER WAS NAPLES AND THE NSWER I GOT FOR THIS WAS ALSO NAPLES
AzureSky
+1
Level 46
Apr 24, 2024
i am hopeless but i got it first try because it was new delhi
VincentCanQuiz
+1
Level 56
May 7, 2024
My first attempt failed the city was Mashhad.

My second attempt succeeded and the city was Singapore.

delfi707
+1
Level 53
Sep 27, 2024
The cities I typed for win are: Madrid-Jakarta-Sydney-Shanghai-Beijinh
cyceryx
+1
Level 61
Jan 23, 2025
omg i got it on the first guess
TheJettyPunk
+1
Level 55
Apr 8, 2025
Sucks when the city is in China
TheMainEvent
+1
Level 50
Oct 16, 2025
Saw that it was in China, panicked, guesses chengdu, nanjing, kunming. It was kunming
PigKat
+1
Level 57
Dec 16, 2025
Well that was lucky (london was my start and the mystery city)
pompanin
+1
Level 46
Jan 29, 2026
worst quiz ever played, 1 minute with cities with 100k...
Cbud
+1
Level 47
Mar 18, 2026
Need more time, 3 Minutes
HouraisanKaguya
+1
Level 21
Apr 23, 2026
只能说你得懂中国，因为中国太大了
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