My record is: Madrid, Paris, Berlin, London, Reykjavik, Oslo, Bern, Moscow, Rome, Valetta, Kiev, Belgrade and Athens with 13 cities and only 75 characters. I was able to do it in 12 seconds this way (18 sec left) Anyone found a shorter way?
Probably much better methods around, but this worked for me because of the alliteration. Skopje, Sarajevo, Stockholm, Riga, Rome, Reykjavik, Kiev, Madrid, Paris, Berlin, Dublin and Valletta and Bern.
My order varied though. After the aliterations, some big names (dublin flows beter than london, and sort of rhymes with berlin) which leaves you with malta and Liechtenstein. For malta there is only one option, for liechtenstein bern is the shortest.
If you want more alliteration instead of Kiev, Madrid, Paris, Berlin, Dublin and Valletta and Bern. You can also do: Paris, London, Lisbon, Berlin, Bern, Kiev, Valletta
or no bern and use vienna valletta. Or no paris and lisbon and use madrid, monaco. Those will leave Berlin and London solo though, but possibly easier to remember for some.
So you could get: Skopje, Sarajevo, Stockholm, Reykjavik, Riga, Rome, London, Berlin, Madrid, Monaco, Kiev, Vienna, Valletta. Sometimes having a nice flow helps more than having fewer letters imo :)
OK, can someone explain how I managed to get UK but not Ireland? (NB I was sure I typed in London, but tried it again second time and Ireland was filled in then). Less sure I typed Madrid and didn't get Portugal (again tested this and it worked)
Finally did it with only 0:06 left!! its actually really hard, but I managed to find the most efficient capitals to put and cover more space faster, so yeah. Great quiz
For me, the main difficulty is that there are several island-nations that do not border any nation. So one alsways have to go through these regardless.
Thats different 13 cities but possibly more letters than yours
Moscow
Stockholm
Berlin
Paris
Lisbon
London
Reykjavik
Kyiv
Vienna
Belgrade
Athens
Valetta
thats 12
My order varied though. After the aliterations, some big names (dublin flows beter than london, and sort of rhymes with berlin) which leaves you with malta and Liechtenstein. For malta there is only one option, for liechtenstein bern is the shortest.
or no bern and use vienna valletta. Or no paris and lisbon and use madrid, monaco. Those will leave Berlin and London solo though, but possibly easier to remember for some.
So you could get: Skopje, Sarajevo, Stockholm, Reykjavik, Riga, Rome, London, Berlin, Madrid, Monaco, Kiev, Vienna, Valletta. Sometimes having a nice flow helps more than having fewer letters imo :)
nice quizz. Thank you!