Find The Mystery City Using Color Clues

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!

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First submitted	January 13, 2021
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Sydney

Brisbane

Melbourne

Santiago

Surabaya

Buenos Aires

Lima

Cebu

Bandung

Jakarta

Guadalajara

Guayaquil

San Diego

Mexico City

Puebla

Los Angeles

Porto Alegre

Manila

Quito

San Francisco

Guatemala City

Phoenix

Monterrey

Singapore

Curitiba

Tokyo

Cali

Nagoya

Osaka

Kaohsiung

Kuala Lumpur

Taipei

Medellín

Bogotá

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São Paulo

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Fukuoka

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Shantou

Seattle

Medan

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Wenzhou

Rio de Janeiro

Dallas

Hong Kong

Ningbo

Daegu

Vancouver

Huizhou

Denver

Shanghai

Guangzhou

Hangzhou

Belo Horizonte

Wuxi

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Seoul

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Changzhou

Nanchang

Guiyang

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Pyongyang

Hefei

Nanning

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Bangkok

Changsha

Hanoi

Qingdao

Wuhan

Xuzhou

Tampa

Miami

Caracas

Dalian

Orlando

Zibo

Shenyang

Port-au-Prince

Jinan

Changchun

Cape Town

Harbin

Atlanta

Zhengzhou

Tangshan

Santo Domingo

Tianjin

Yangon

Kunming

Beijing

Chongqing

Shijiazhuang

Salvador

Minneapolis

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Taiyuan

Xi'an

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Chicago

Cincinnati

Chengdu

Maputo

Detroit

Johannesburg

Cleveland

Colombo

Lanzhou

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Recife

Chittagong

Fortaleza

Toronto

Philadelphia

Dhaka

Kolkata

New York

Chennai

Bangalore

Montreal

Boston

Hyderabad

Bhilai

Kathmandu

Nagpur

Lucknow

Kanpur

Pune

Indore

Mumbai

Dar es Salaam

Surat

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Ürümqi

New Delhi

Jaipur

Ahmedabad

Luanda

Lahore

Gujranwala

Faisalabad

Nairobi

Rawalpindi

Karachi

Kinshasa

Kampala

Kabul

Tashkent

Abidjan

Addis Ababa

Dakar

Accra

Dubai

Yaoundé

Douala

Kumasi

Sana'a

Lagos

Mashhad

Ibadan

Bamako

Abuja

Riyadh

Isfahan

Khartoum

Kuwait City

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Kano

Jeddah

Baghdad

Saint Petersburg

Moscow

Amman

Damascus

Casablanca

Tel Aviv

Cairo

Manchester

Birmingham

Alexandria

Kyiv

London

Ankara

Madrid

Hamburg

Rotterdam

The Ruhr

Berlin

Paris

Cologne / Dusseldorf

Istanbul

Izmir

Frankfurt

Algiers

Barcelona

Athens

Milan

Rome

Naples

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97 Comments

+80

Level 60

Mar 4, 2021

do you guys think I should make a sequel to this? like this comment if you want me to

Level 60

May 5, 2021

EDIT: We have a randomized version, no need for a part two! See here

Level 54

Jan 13, 2021

Nice Job! This one is great as well.

Level 25

Feb 16, 2021

What is the mystery city? I dont know where

Level 80

Mar 18, 2021

I'll give you a hint - it's in southern Europe

Level 65

Apr 4, 2021

the only highly populated cities I know are tokyo beijing london rome and moscow thats about it

Level 55

Apr 7, 2021

Naples

Level 62

May 10, 2021

It's not Tirana

Level 75

Jan 13, 2021

My first attempt I got the colours mixed up. I guessed L.A. and Tokyo and was very confused that the mystery city was apparently very close to both of them!

Excellent and interesting quiz, nice job.

Level 75

Mar 16, 2021

I find that my personal best for this quiz improves much faster than for many other quizzes. After only 2 or 3 tries I've got it down to 0:00 sec

Level 44

Aug 10, 2021

SAME

Level 51

Jan 14, 2021

Nominated! I also found out by this quiz I need to practice my cities, but I still found the answer which is good :D

Level 65

Jan 14, 2021

Nice concept. Replayability would make this one a feature 100%. Time is ok but could be shorter to make it somewhat challenging, or alternatively add an attempt counter (although I'm pretty sure it can't be done within Jetpunk)

Level 60

Jan 14, 2021

Thanks! I might reduce the time by 15 seconds.

Replayability is possible but it would take months to design. I will start working on a replayable version soon.

Level 25

Feb 9, 2021

How did you make this quiz?

Level 67

Mar 6, 2021

Type ins and svg-correct coding.

Level 76

Mar 15, 2021

Really interesting idea - hey Dan, how easy is it to load this quiz so the maximum number of points you can earn for this quiz drops by one each time? Otherwise the 5 pojnts will fall into your lap sooner or later.

Level 60

Jan 14, 2021

How do you do like the far close thing?

Level 60

Jan 14, 2021

what do you mean?

Level 60

Jan 17, 2021

Like that thing in the bottom left corner

Level 60

Mar 3, 2021

Edit the .svg file in Inkscape

Level 76

Jan 14, 2021

Can you make there be some way to see the correct answer?

Level 60

Jan 14, 2021

Yeah, I can, but some people would want to take it multiple times until they get the correct answer.

Level 43

Jan 20, 2021

I’m far to the button nominate... but now I’m close! And I push it!

Level 67

Jan 20, 2021

woah!

Level 32

Feb 16, 2021

This one is more difficult than the country quiz because of the circles. For example, I typed in Paris which is a big circle and then typed in all the smaller cities around Paris, which are smaller but the resolution is too small to be able to see if you are getting hotter or colder and therefore in which direction to go. Any other way to present this graph to be able to tell the difference between when we are getting hotter or colder?

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Level 82

Mar 16, 2021

Really interesting idea, but I found the colors really difficult to discern whether I was getting closer or farther away. I had multiple cities in Europe that were dark red but they looked exactly the same shade of red to me.

As a suggestion, maybe the gradient could be across a couple different colors to make it more clear? I realize that some people have colorblindness issues with certain hues, but just a thought.

Level 69

Feb 16, 2021

Wait so the missing city isn't one of the circles? I had all the bright red ones filled in and didn't have the answer. Feel like it should be made clearer than you have to guess a city that isn't one of the circles.

Level 60

Mar 15, 2021

this has been fixed now thanks

Level 77

Feb 16, 2021

All roads almost lead to...

Level 81

Feb 17, 2021

Should be a featured quiz

Level 54

Feb 18, 2021

Amazing quiz! Nominated :)

Level 65

Feb 18, 2021

So the answer isn't one of the top 200? So it's not on the map? It's not obvious I think it needs more explaining.

Level 60

Feb 18, 2021

It is in the top 200

Level 67

Feb 23, 2021

0:43 seconds :D

Level 17

Mar 1, 2021

just spent 30 minutes thinking white meant closer

Level 67

Mar 5, 2021

Great quiz! Nominated!

Level 67

Mar 6, 2021

Will get featured soon! And yes, a sequel would be great! Maybe an African city?

Level 54

Mar 7, 2021

The first three syllables of the name of a guy who conquered a lot of land.

Level 69

Mar 11, 2021

Nagpur In=Napuri surname=Blah Blah Napuri

Level 45

May 20, 2021

It is NAPLES

Level 81

Mar 12, 2021

I like it, but would prefer at least some shading for the oceans/seas so that I could rule out what cities I was trying to guess. A lot of big cities aren't on here (which is fine), but it's difficult to figure out which ones are or aren't without a bit more reference, IMO. (Unless you just guess the whole time)

Level 60

Mar 12, 2021

good idea, i'll see what i can do

btw, the quiz uses urban population. i'm sure the city data is correct

Level 54

Mar 15, 2021

You should pick a city in Northwest China. There are so many to choose from!

Level 85

Mar 15, 2021

I am color blind. I found this one to be very difficult

Level 76

Mar 15, 2021

To answer your opening question Mr Pandora, yes please! More in this series would be awesome. The dream scenario would be that the quiz randomly re-selects the winning city each time, but I see some really major technical difficulties pulling that off! (The closest to solving that might be to create a few quizzes in the series, and then when you click to start the quiz it randomly selects one of the quizzes from that series. Still requires new capabilities on Jetpunk, but probably a wee bit more achievable)

Level 60

Mar 15, 2021

Thanks! I've experimented a little bit and it is indeed possible to make a version where the mystery city changes each time (however, it's not possible to do this for the country version). The problem is, it would take a long time to make and I'm not sure if people would even enjoy it anyways.

But seeing as the pinned comment got a good amount of likes, I'll make a sequel

Level 60

Apr 28, 2021

Edit: A random mystery country AND city version has been released! See the link in the 3rd pinned comment

Level 76

Mar 15, 2021

By the way, the way this quiz is set up creates some pretty interesting and weird quiz statistics.

Level 92

Mar 15, 2021

Blind luck to get the answer with the first city I entered!

Level 67

Mar 16, 2021

By the way, the stroke for Kashmir still appears.

Level 60

Mar 19, 2021

yeah i was unable to fix it for some reason

Level 80

Mar 16, 2021

This was fun. Can you do one where it changes each time?

Level 62

Mar 16, 2021

Really fun quiz!

Level 69

Mar 16, 2021

it was naples!

Level 67

Mar 16, 2021

Why. Just why. I'm going to start to report intentional spoilers on one answer quizzes.

Level 65

Apr 4, 2021

dont

Level 66

May 10, 2021

Why do you read the comments before finishing the quiz tho?

Level 65

Apr 4, 2021

thx so much

Level 41

Mar 17, 2021

What is this, and why is time so short?

Level 67

Mar 17, 2021

Read instructions...

Level 52

Mar 18, 2021

18 seconds first try!

Level 69

Mar 19, 2021

11 seconds, how lucky I am

Level 67

Mar 21, 2021

What source did you use to find the top cities?

Level 60

Mar 21, 2021

Citypopulation.de - urban population, ref. date 1/1/19

It's the same list I used for my 500 Biggest Cities quiz

Level 60

Oct 3, 2021

Edit: my 500 biggest cities quiz has a new source; this quiz uses 2019 cp.de data

Level 54

Mar 22, 2021

I can see the mystry city after taking the quiz. Can you change it to Mystery City

Level 60

Mar 22, 2021

No because it would reset the stats

Level 54

Mar 27, 2021

Level 39

Apr 2, 2021

It would be nice if you do it with US states.

Level 40

Apr 2, 2021

Hint: The cities are sorted by how close they are. The more late the city is on the list, the closer

Level 42

Apr 2, 2021

Nice quiz

Level 70

Apr 2, 2021

got it as the time ended!

Level 59

Apr 2, 2021

Mine was Naples, got it at 17 seconds left

Level 72

May 15, 2023

It's not randomised

Level 33

Apr 2, 2021

Only thing I'd suggest is to use a different color to make it easier to to read the color grade.

Level 67

Apr 6, 2021

A lot harder to "just change" than you think. Also, the color scheme is perfectly understandable for most that pay attention to the directions, and red is one of the less common colors for people to be colorblind to.

Level 66

Apr 6, 2021

I got it on my 2nd guess completely with luck

Level 67

Apr 11, 2021

Translated to Italian!

Level 69

Apr 16, 2021

this would be easier if i wasn't colorblind

Level 54

Apr 27, 2021

When does this one hit the front page?

Level 60

Apr 27, 2021

May 12

Level 60

Apr 28, 2021

*10th

Level 67

May 10, 2021

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Randomized version of 2 above

Level 74

May 10, 2021

Took the full time limit the first two times guessing every city around the correct answer. The third time I knew which city it had to be, so I finished the quiz in 1 second.

Level 71

May 10, 2021

Sorry, not a fan.

Level 67

May 10, 2021

Sorry, but it appears you have said this to go against the crowd. Do you go around on other quizzes and say you don't like it without explaining why? I mean, at least give a suggestion.

Level 60

May 10, 2021

I don't mind it, I'm not really fond of this quiz either :)

Level 54

May 10, 2021

Haha got it in only 3 type ins

Level 67

May 10, 2021

I put Athens first, and then when I saw how red it was, I spent the rest of the minute trying to figure out how to spell "Thessaloniki."

Level 55

May 10, 2021

Bruh wot I got it second guess haha my first was Naples and I have no idea how this happened

Level 24

May 11, 2021

Very Hard

But I enjoyed

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Level 42

May 12, 2021

Got it on the first time

Level 27

Jun 27, 2021

i gave up first round.

But on the second round i guessed it

wot

Level 30

Aug 14, 2021

There's a cheat and how you can get it on the second if not on first.

When times up, look for the bottom one on the last row and it usually is the mystery one

That's how I did it:)

Level 18

Jun 12, 2023

"The Ruhr" (German: "Ruhrgebiet") isn't a city. It's an Urban area consisting of several cities For example: Bochum, Essen and Duisburg are cities in the "Ruhrgebiet".

Level 53

Jun 12, 2023

They never reveal the answer!