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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First submitted	April 6, 2021
Times taken	85,308
Average score	26.0%
Rating	4.38

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City

San Francisco

Los Angeles

San Diego

Brisbane

Seattle

Vancouver

Tokyo

Phoenix

Nagoya

Sydney

Osaka

Guadalajara

Fukuoka

Denver

Busan

Daegu

Melbourne

Monterrey

Seoul

Mexico City

Puebla

Pyongyang

Harbin

Changchun

Cebu

Dallas

Shenyang

Houston

Taipei

Ningbo

Shanghai

Dalian

Wenzhou

Manila

Wuxi

Kaohsiung

Hangzhou

Qingdao

Changzhou

Fuzhou

Minneapolis

Nanjing

Tangshan

Zibo

Xiamen

Hefei

Xuzhou

Tianjin

Jinan

Shantou

Beijing

Guatemala City

Nanchang

Shijiazhuang

Chicago

Wuhan

Huizhou

Zhengzhou

Hong Kong

Taiyuan

Changsha

Guangzhou

Cincinnati

Atlanta

Detroit

Xi'an

Cleveland

Tampa

Orlando

Surabaya

Nanning

Toronto

Chongqing

Guiyang

Miami

Washington

Lanzhou

Hanoi

Chengdu

Ho Chi Minh City

Philadelphia

Montreal

New York

Kunming

Bandung

Guayaquil

Jakarta

Boston

Quito

Singapore

Cali

Medellín

Bangkok

Kuala Lumpur

Port-au-Prince

Lima

Bogotá

Santo Domingo

Medan

Yangon

Ürümqi

Chittagong

Caracas

Dhaka

Santiago

Kolkata

Kathmandu

Lucknow

Kanpur

Bhilai

New Delhi

Tashkent

Nagpur

Gujranwala

Lahore

Rawalpindi

Jaipur

Saint Petersburg

Chennai

Faisalabad

Buenos Aires

Hyderabad

Indore

Kabul

Colombo

Moscow

Bangalore

Ahmedabad

Surat

Pune

Mumbai

Manchester

Porto Alegre

Birmingham

Mashhad

Hamburg

Karachi

Curitiba

London

Berlin

Rotterdam

Kiev

The Ruhr

Cologne / Düsseldorf

Brasília

Campinas

Frankfurt

São Paulo

Paris

Tehran

Belo Horizonte

Rio de Janeiro

Isfahan

Milan

Dubai

Ankara

Istanbul

Fortaleza

Madrid

Baghdad

Barcelona

Salvador

Kuwait City

Rome

Naples

Izmir

Athens

Damascus

Recife

Casablanca

Riyadh

Algiers

Amman

Tel Aviv

Alexandria

Cairo

Jeddah

Sana'a

Dakar

Addis Ababa

Khartoum

Bamako

Durban

Dar es Salaam

Cape Town

Maputo

Nairobi

Johannesburg

Abidjan

Kumasi

Kano

Kampala

Accra

Abuja

Ibadan

Lagos

Douala

Yaoundé

Kinshasa

Mystery City (Luanda)

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Level 65

Apr 7, 2021

Updated so that you can see which city was the mystery city if you didn't guess it!

+11

Level 65

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

Level 75

Apr 7, 2021

Amazing quiz. One of my favorites which can be clear by having almost 200 takes and over half of the quiz's takes right now.

Level 65

Apr 8, 2021

That's insane! Glad to hear you enjoy it Maxim!

Level 75

Apr 8, 2021

Great update so far. Gives me more work to figure out the changes. Can't wait until this is featured.

Level 65

Apr 8, 2021

Thanks for the support! And indeed some more work to figure out the full list :)

Level 75

Apr 9, 2021

List complete again. Time for you to change the answers again

Level 65

Apr 9, 2021

We'll see :)

Level 63

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.

Level 75

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

Level 65

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

Level 57

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.

Level 55

Apr 12, 2021

Is it really showing Hyderabad as Dark Red when Moscow is the mystery city.

Level 75

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).

Level 57

Apr 22, 2021

^ correct

Level 71

Apr 14, 2021

Great quiz, a lot of fun slowly getting near the target before the time runs out.

Level 65

Apr 15, 2021

Thank you Mal!

Level 71

Apr 16, 2021

Finished in 6 seconds ez

Level 77

Apr 19, 2021

Nice quiz, and well done for the feature!

Level 61

Apr 19, 2021

Got blessed with Tokyo in 6 seconds lol, great quiz

Level 82

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!

Level 66

Apr 19, 2021

Just typed one city and got the result! Nailed it😁 Great quiz

Level 57

Apr 19, 2021

Congrats on the feature! Now all quizzes in the series have a star next to it :P

Level 65

Apr 20, 2021

Thanks!

Level 53

May 10, 2021

I started with London, then guessed Birmingham, which was the city!

Level 75

Apr 19, 2021

Congrats on the featured!

Level 65

Apr 20, 2021

Thanks!

Level 87

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

Level 68

Apr 20, 2021

You and Stewart knocked it out of the park for this quiz, amazing job!

Level 65

Apr 20, 2021

Thank you!

Level 42

Apr 20, 2021

first try (beijing)!!!!

Level 91

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.

Level 65

Apr 20, 2021

Fair point, I'll have a look into changing that

Level 65

Apr 29, 2021

This change is currently pending approval

Level 65

Apr 30, 2021

DC will now work

Level 75

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...

Level 64

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!

Level 69

Apr 21, 2021

Not for me. Too difficult to tell apart different shades of red. I just kept bombing India.

Level 65

Apr 22, 2021

That's why you do a different strategy and guess in different regions and slowly narrow your distance between guessed cities.

Level 70

Apr 24, 2021

Koahsiung??? I had zero chance.

Level 55

May 2, 2021

Ouch. What Unluck.

Level 62

May 10, 2021

I got it in 5: Tokyo, Osaka, Beijing, Shanghai, Harbin

Level 17

May 10, 2021

mine was lima

Level 68

May 11, 2021

Bhilai! That was unfortunate.

Level 68

May 11, 2021

Ho chi minh! Excellent :-)

Level 68

May 11, 2021

Xian! Got it. This is really fun and addictive.

Level 75

May 12, 2021

Very addictive

Level 47

May 12, 2021

Damn, I got Cape Town in 3 guesses.

Level 29

May 14, 2021

Wow. Jeddah with 2 seconds left to push me into lvl 15 and let me comment this. Great quiz!

Level 65

Jun 6, 2021

Naples again...

Lucky!

Level 59

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

Level 49

Jun 6, 2021

wow i am one of the lucky people - my mystery city was st. petersburg and it was maybe my fifth guess :)

Level 44

Jun 6, 2021

My phone didn't tell me what the city was. Do you know why this might have happened?

Level 65

Jun 6, 2021

It might have been off the screen as the SVG is not fully visible in one go on mobile

Level 51

Jun 6, 2021

Somehow managed to get it on my first guess! That was some amazing luck

Level 42

Jun 6, 2021

Cologne and Dusseldorf are two different cities. Not sure why they're together as an answer.

Level 65

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.

Level 61

Jun 6, 2021

I got the answer, Dallas, with two tries!

Level 65

Jun 6, 2021

SHEESH I got the mystery city (Luanda) in 3 answers.

Level 45

Jun 6, 2021

I got Luanda 2 times in a row... Is this rigged?

Level 65

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

Level 39

Jun 6, 2021

this is amazing

Level 66

Jun 6, 2021

Got very lucky guessing Tokyo ---> Beijing ---> Wuhan - a certain pandemic probably left that city right at the front of my mind.

Level 66

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.

Level 65

Jun 6, 2021

Please see my answer to @Luprec above

Level 48

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.

Level 68

Jun 7, 2021

Tokyo, it is pale red, so I type London. Boom got it! What???!

Level 58

Jun 7, 2021

First guess was London and I got it first try lol

Level 57

Jun 7, 2021

I got Wuhan, and don't feel like it is a coincidence.

Level 59

Jun 7, 2021

Great idea! But color gradient could be better...a lot of dark reds look the same.

Level 63

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

Level 57

Jun 9, 2021

I guess miami first then atlanta then mexico city and won.

Level 69

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.

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?

Level 65

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.

Level 29

Aug 26, 2021

It took me ages and then i got it first try on an attempt (Rio)

Level 67

Sep 8, 2021

Easy I got Paris :P

Level 59

Dec 7, 2021

First guess, Tokyo. 0:01

Level 84

Jan 20, 2022

Got Guiyang....

Level 53

Apr 28, 2022

Lol I just guessed Beijing and it worked 0.00 seconds lol

Level 22

May 29, 2022

How did i get it on second guess-

Level 60

Dec 4, 2022

NO WAY I GUESSED MUMBAI FIRST GUESS AND THAT WAS THE CITY

Level 66

Dec 23, 2022

Time Used

0:02

Best Time

0:02

Level 59

Jan 14, 2023

ARGHHH! Typed Beijing, spelled it wrong twice, time ran out, and that was the city

Level 66

Jan 17, 2023

Second. Beijing it was.

Level 63

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.

Level 60

Sep 14, 2023

Same with Tokyo and Brisbane.

Level 46

Feb 10, 2023

Haha, it was the first city in typed in.

Level 73

Feb 24, 2023

Third try.

Level 64

Mar 23, 2023

I guessed New York City, then Beijing, then London and got it right.

Level 71

May 18, 2023

HAHAHAHAAAHHA **** you Nagopur and rando asian citires

Level 55

Jul 10, 2023

Kyiv is spelled Kyiv

Level 65

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

Level 48

Jul 12, 2023

Probably the best quiz I've played on here (been on this site for over 10 years)

Level 60

Sep 14, 2023

First quiz I've gotten 4/5 points for 20/200...

Level 61

Nov 30, 2023

First guess was Ankara. It was the mystery city.

Level 24

Dec 20, 2023

on my life i got the answer on the first try it was beijing btw

Level 33

Jan 6, 2024

I got it in 4 guesses, and I don't even know my capitals!

Level 37

Jan 11, 2024

LOL THE ORIGANLS ANSWER WAS NAPLES AND THE NSWER I GOT FOR THIS WAS ALSO NAPLES

Level 37

Apr 24, 2024

i am hopeless but i got it first try because it was new delhi

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