Africa from the air
7 cities across 4 countries — 2 the game rates easy, 4 standard, 1 expert.
Placing a city in Africa
Placing the region is the first and cheapest decision you make in a round, and getting it wrong costs you the whole guess. In Africa the giveaways are the combination of landscape and building pattern rather than any single landmark: once you have seen Cape Town, Johannesburg, Cairo from above, the family resemblance across the rest becomes obvious.
The cities the game rates expert here — Marrakesh — are the ones without a signature feature. On those you are reading grid texture, tower distribution and the shape of the edge where the city stops.
South Africa
- Cape Town Reads as: table mountain bay.
- Johannesburg Reads as: highveld skyline.
Egypt
- Alexandria Reads as: mediterranean corniche.
- Cairo Reads as: nile megacity.
Morocco
- Casablanca Reads as: atlantic grid.
- Marrakesh Reads as: red city plain.
Kenya
- Nairobi Reads as: green highland core.