The 100 largest urban areas of China all have over 1,000,000 inhabitants. If we give you the start of each city name, do you know the final syllable of each?
This quiz, without the help, but with a map, is here
Urban area population according to citypopulation.de as at 2016
Great quiz! I think I got them in the end, but that still only comes to 93/100 - not sure what I'm missing. Anyhow, this is a really good way of learning some of the lesser-known names.
You would need at least ten thousand Scrabble tiles if you wanted to have a tile for each character, and that's a bit much to fit in a standard Scrabble box.
After a bunch that I knew, I tried the following strategy : any consonent (including ch, sh, and zh) + any vowel (including ou) + ng ; I got a score of 87 ;).
I've said it before, but just have people read these off letter by letter at 20 feet at the eye doctor's. You'll know if their eyes are good because guessing is out the window.