Middle East from the air
8 cities across 6 countries — 2 the game rates easy, 5 standard, 1 expert.
Placing a city in Middle East
Placing the region is the first and cheapest decision you make in a round, and getting it wrong costs you the whole guess. In Middle East the giveaways are the combination of landscape and building pattern rather than any single landmark: once you have seen Dubai, Doha, Tel Aviv from above, the family resemblance across the rest becomes obvious.
The cities the game rates expert here — Muscat — 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.
United Arab Emirates
- Abu Dhabi Reads as: island capital.
- Dubai Reads as: coast and towers.
Israel
- Jerusalem Reads as: hills and old city.
- Tel Aviv Reads as: mediterranean grid.
Qatar
- Doha Reads as: bay crescent.
Turkey
- Istanbul Reads as: strait city.
Saudi Arabia
- Riyadh Reads as: desert capital.
Oman
- Muscat Reads as: mountain coast.