We've had this issue on the French (Anagrammes aléatoires) and German (Wortgemisch) word scrambles. After contacting the Quizmaster, this can't be changed easily since the way the scrambling works using the javascript requires normal letters and not special characters.
Given the relative obscurity of some of these names, the yellow box is just in the way. Does not seem necessary. It not likely someone is just going to start randomly guessing Bydgoszcz, Dnipro or Izhevsk on their own (unless a cat is walking across the keyboard.) Heck, those look scrambled without being scrambled. (No disrespect to the residents and founders of those fine cities.)
If the words were the capital cities of Europe, or the largest cities in Europe, the yellow box would make sense. Not on this one.
Agreed I really dont see the need for the yellow box. Of all the cities in europe, it would be quite improbably if you randomly typed the right one (and if you start randomly typing you probably would start with the better know ones, paris, london, and well, they are easy enough to get on your own.)
- Gomel = the second largest city of Belarus with 560,000 people
Gonna say no to Lemgo there.
- Narva = a small city with 57k people
- vs.
- Varna = the third largest city of Bulgaria with 340,000 people
Again going to say no. The description clearly states that this quiz pools from the 200 largest cities in Europe (and I think I added in the remaining capitals also), so these two would definitely not comply.
I know some of these aren't *technically* cities (almost all culprits are from UK), but it'd be silly to call this quiz Word Scramble - European Cities and some UK Towns!
So I'm aware that city isn't 100% accurate, but blame the way we designate cities here in the UK arbitrarily, rather than logically like most other countries!
Maybe this is just because the quiz hasn't been updated in a while, but Vinnytsia (Ukraine) is not in the linked quiz of possible cities. It is 30k short of the requirement.
Sorry for the inconvenience.
Obviously in, say, Mandarin, very few (if any) of A-z are considered normal, since they use different symbols entirely.
If the words were the capital cities of Europe, or the largest cities in Europe, the yellow box would make sense. Not on this one.
- vs.
- Gomel = the second largest city of Belarus with 560,000 people
Gonna say no to Lemgo there.
- Narva = a small city with 57k people
- vs.
- Varna = the third largest city of Bulgaria with 340,000 people
Again going to say no. The description clearly states that this quiz pools from the 200 largest cities in Europe (and I think I added in the remaining capitals also), so these two would definitely not comply.
Bournemouth isn't a city though.
So I'm aware that city isn't 100% accurate, but blame the way we designate cities here in the UK arbitrarily, rather than logically like most other countries!
Darn you Antwerp
Also I had "AACHNE" for "Aachen" so...
asdeupbt = Budapest, pretty easy.
And then the next two were "shkialsieotn" and "atoonuphmts".
Yeah I'm not getting 5 points, am I?