Find The Mystery Capital Using Color Clues - Randomized!

To start, name any capital. The redder it appears, the closer you are. When you guess the mystery capital, the quiz is over - you win!

The mystery capital changes every time you play!

HUGE thanks to Pandora49 for the idea and the map, and to Stewart for helping with the CSS!

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Last updated: January 3, 2023

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First submitted	May 20, 2021
Times taken	55,157
Average score	32.1%
Rating	4.64

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City

Port Vila

Funafuti

Suva

Honiara

Yaren

South Tarawa

Nukuʻalofa

Apia

Majuro

Palikir

Port Moresby

Wellington

Canberra

Ngerulmud

Dili

Tokyo

Manila

Bandar Seri Begawan

Taipei

Jakarta

Seoul

Pyongyang

Singapore

Phnom Penh

Kuala Lumpur

Hanoi

Beijing

Vientiane

Bangkok

Naypyidaw

Ulaanbaatar

Dhaka

Thimphu

Kathmandu

Mexico City

Sri Jayawardenepura Kotte

Malé

New Delhi

Guatemala City

San Salvador

Belmopan

Tegucigalpa

Managua

Bishkek

Islamabad

Santiago

San José

Nur-Sultan

Lima

Kabul

Port Louis

Tashkent

Dushanbe

Quito

Havana

Panama City

Buenos Aires

Kingston

Nassau

Montevideo

Washington D.C.

Bogotá

Ottawa

Victoria

La Paz / Sucre

Ashgabat

Muscat

Antananarivo

Port-au-Prince

Asunción

Abu Dhabi

Santo Domingo

Tehran

Caracas

Baku

Doha

Manama

Moroni

Moscow

Maputo

Mbabane

Kuwait City

Maseru

Tbilisi

Mogadishu

Yerevan

Helsinki

Basseterre

Riyadh

Tallinn

Reykjavík

Saint George's

Port-of-Spain

Pretoria / Cape Town / Bloemfontein

Saint John's

Baghdad

Kingstown

Roseau

Castries

Riga

Sana'a

Stockholm

Bridgetown

Minsk

Gaborone

Georgetown

Vilnius

Djibouti

Oslo

Lilongwe

Harare

Kiev

Brasília

Dodoma

Paramaribo

Nairobi

Chișinău

Addis Ababa

Warsaw

Copenhagen

Lusaka

Asmara

Damascus

Ankara

Beirut

Amman

Jerusalem

Nicosia

Berlin

Bucharest

Windhoek

Kampala

Prague

Budapest

Bratislava

Amsterdam

Gitega

Vienna

Dublin

Kigali

Sofia

Belgrade

Cairo

Juba

Brussels

Khartoum

London

Pristina

Luxembourg

Skopje

Zagreb

Sarajevo

Ljubljana

Podgorica

Athens

Tirana

Vaduz

Paris

Bern

San Marino

Rome

Vatican City

Monaco

Andorra la Vella

Valletta

Luanda

Tunis

Kinshasa

Brazzaville

Madrid

Tripoli

Bangui

Lisbon

Algiers

N'Djamena

Rabat

Libreville

Yaoundé

São Tomé

Malabo

Abuja

Praia

Porto-Novo / Cotonou

Lomé

Accra

Niamey

Dakar

Nouakchott

Banjul

Bissau

Monrovia

Freetown

Yamoussoukro

Ouagadougou

Conakry

Mystery City (Bamako)

Level 71

May 20, 2021

Awesome, I am the first person to nominate this :)

Level 65

May 20, 2021

Thank you!

Level 54

May 20, 2021

Awesome quiz! I'm happy to see this one on your own account. Once again huge congratulations! Of course I nominated, but I'm sure you won't need it.

I found on my first try, but it was easy because... I love Europe.

Thank you once again for this amazing work!

Level 65

May 20, 2021

Thank you Baptiste!

Level 37

May 20, 2021

I got muscat twice in a row

Level 37

May 20, 2021

Update- Andorra La Vella twice in a row

Level 65

May 20, 2021

The chance of getting any capital twice in a row is around 2%, So the more often you play the more repeats you'll get :)

Level 50

Dec 16, 2023

I GOT SOME RANDON OCEANIAN CAPITAL I DONT EVEN KNOW… TWICE!

Level 57

May 20, 2021

Great! I like what you did there with Rome and Kinshasa...

Level 71

May 21, 2021

Great!

Level 71

May 21, 2021

randomly guessed capitals got it on 7th guess (Beijing)

Level 66

May 31, 2021

I got it on my third guess (Jakarta)!

Level 75

May 31, 2021

I got Basseterre :c

Level 47

Feb 22, 2022

I got St John's, it gets frustrating when you have named every other Caribbean capital.

Level 57

May 31, 2021

Yesssss!!! I was hoping this quiz would be made!

Level 29

Aug 26, 2021

Awesome, the city i come from, there, it was it.

It was Canberra, one nobody would probably guess.

Level 54

Sep 11, 2021

My fastest time is 0:00. I typed Rome and i got it right at first :)

Level 68

Sep 28, 2021

Sofia, got it 4 seconds to go. Fun.

Level 95

Sep 28, 2021

So weird! I thought maybe it wasn't randomized as I got the same answer the first two times I played. Turns out, I randomly got the same answer twice in a row! I think that's a 1 in 38,416 chance; those are the odds! Thank you for the fun quiz, I've nominated it.

Level 65

Sep 28, 2021

Glad you enjoyed! But your math is a bit off: this is the chance you get that specific capital twice in a row. If all answers are possible the chance of getting any capital twice in a row is 196 times that, or 1 in 196. However, due to the answer limit of 10,000 answers only 51 answers are possible, leading to a chance of 1 in 51 that this happens, or slightly less than 2%

Level 84

Feb 9, 2023

The very first two times I played it was Vienna. There are enough people here stating that the same answer came up 2 times in a row that something seems amiss, it's statistically improbable.

Level 65

Feb 9, 2023

At the time of writing this quiz has 8875 takes. For the sake of the argument let's say all of these takes from 4437 people (ignoring the one extra since I don't want to cut a person in half). So each person takes the quiz exactly twice. Since there are only 51 possibilities for answers, it is statistically expected that 87 of them end up with the same answer to both their takes.

We often think of randomness as something that should change the answer every time, yet getting the same answer twice in a row is also very much possible, especially given the limited amount of answers and the large amount of takes.

Level 64

Dec 14, 2021

Wait this was randomized? I somehow got Brasilia twice in a row and therefore a rare 0:00 time

Level 65

Feb 18, 2022

I am sooo lucky haha. I guessed it in 8 seconds and by typing my third capital. Berlin, Bogota and Mexico City.

Level 34

Apr 5, 2022

Awesome quiz, nominated!

Level 68

Dec 25, 2022

I was so confused. Randomly guessed Wellington, Washington, Capetown, and then Algiers, and got it! What a fluke!

Level 66

Feb 6, 2023

I think there might be a problem with the gradient.

The capital was Tegucigalpa, Honduras. The countries I guessed all looked nearly identical in color (from Guatemala, to Canada, Bahamas, Peru, Guyana).

-Iceland, Morocco, and South Africa, were noticeably different colored.

Maybe that's intentional- but I think I would've had to guess 2 dozen of the same-colored countries to win.

Maybe there's something wrong with my monitor, or eyes. I'm using Chrome. I opened Paint, and enlarged Guatemala/Nassau/Colombia/Ecuador, and they still look nearly identical at 20x the size.

Maybe everyone just goes: Mexico City, Cairo, Beijing, then begins spamming 10-30 capitals?

Fun quiz though, ty.

Level 84

Feb 9, 2023

I agree with this, I think it's just unlucky to get a capital that is close in to other capitals. I got Tegucigalpa and I really couldn't tell any difference in color anywhere in Central America that I was guessing. Even Washington DC looked really close. It might be prohibitively difficult to program it so that the # of kilometers has a different effect on color depending on how clustered the capitals are. Like a mulitiplier. If you draw Male, Maldives, the color gradient works about as it does now, but if you draw Zagreb, Croatia, you have to get to Europe before the colors move much beyond light pink.

Level 65

Apr 17, 2023

Yeah this quiz is no fun at all. I just spend the entire time guessing capitals that are very close but not quite the required one as they all look pretty damn red to me.

Level 95

Feb 8, 2023

Fun! I love these kinds of quizzes!!

Level 60

Feb 8, 2023

Port Moresby, second try! Great quiz

Level 44

Feb 9, 2023

first try, moscow

Level 54

Feb 9, 2023

Tried this for the first time 2 seconds ago. Randomly typed Kampala because it was the first thing that came into my mind. I instantly got it right. Quickest quiz and quickest 5 points ever.

Level 54

Feb 9, 2023

I got Accra on my first guess!

Level 63

Feb 13, 2023

Hard to see differences in red when the dots are close together like in Europe. I did get Vatican City pretty early though so it's not that problematic I'd say.

Level 89

Feb 16, 2023

These kind of quizzes are the worst for colorblind people like me

Level 60

Feb 18, 2023

did it with "Kuwait" on my second attempt.

Level 85

Feb 21, 2023

Fun quiz, but as others have said the color gradients are often too subtle to discern, so there's still a lot more luck than skill required.

Level 61

Apr 6, 2023

the first one was tokyo and I didnt get it lol

Level 66

Apr 17, 2023

Not enough time

Level 44

Apr 17, 2023

Surely it should tell you what the answer was when the timer runs out?

Level 65

Apr 17, 2023

It does, it's highlighted in green if time runs out

Level 64

Apr 17, 2023

Is the colour gradient just based on how many countries are closer rather than distance? I was guessing in West Europe and it was red so I assumed I was on the right track, the answer turned out to be Mexico City which is nowhere near Europe, I didn't even think to try the Americas because I assumed Europe would be very pale if the answer was over there.

Level 57

Apr 17, 2023

Too hard to separate the colors with only 1 minute to complete. Should probably use another colormap. More colors would make it easier than just varied intensities of red

Level 55

Apr 17, 2023

In the past I struggled with Quizzes like this, but not today. I randomly typed in "Berlin", "Beijing" and then "answer".

Level 41

Apr 17, 2023

with my first guess vienna done

Level 35

Apr 17, 2023

If you don't get it, why doesn't it tell you what the answer was?

Level 73

Apr 17, 2023

Maybe I am color blind, but I do not see any real differentiation in the colors based on proximity to the capitals.

It doesn't take me long to find a dark red dot, but I typically end up going in circles around the "hot" capital without noticing any derivation.

But I like the idea.

Level 59

Apr 17, 2023

This was very fun, but I really struggled with seeing the different shades of red!

Also, I only got 1 point for guessing it after few capitals. Shouldn't it be the other way around? It seems the more capitals I name the more points I get?

Level 50

Apr 17, 2023

Got it with 4 seconds left with a random african capital guess because I had Lome and it was somewhere near and my African capital knowledge isn't great.

Level 63

Apr 17, 2023

I'm so colorblind with these shades of red.

Level 76

Apr 18, 2023

Holy cow! Got it in 4 guesses!! Lima, D.C., London, Oslo.

Level 63

Apr 19, 2023

I love this series, but I can't see the difference in shades of red for a lot of these.

Level 62

Apr 26, 2023

Omg got it at the first try, that was interesting lol (Mexico, also my country)

Level 64

Apr 29, 2023

boom, La Paz.. three takes

Level 40

May 13, 2023

So if you don't get it right do you just never know the answer? I don't see it anywhere...

Level 65

May 13, 2023

If you don't get it right the city lights up in green. But keep in mind it might be partially hidden by others

Level 71

Sep 18, 2023

Fact: It is literally impossible to get exactly 4 points on this quiz.

Level 54

Feb 23, 2024

I got London.. with 4 seconds left man i suck

Level 23

Apr 11, 2024

I finished in 0:03. I just guessed and the mystery city was my first guess.

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