AERIALEMore ways to play with cities from above
Three extra games for when you know your cities: draw the metro, unblur a pixelated photo, or recognise a city from its map layers alone.
Subway lines
Pick a line colour and trace where you think the metro runs, right on top of the city's satellite photo. Each line you draw is compared with the real route: the closer you follow the tracks, and the more of the line you cover, the higher the score, from 1 to 100. There are 51 metro systems, from London and Paris to Tokyo, Seoul and Buenos Aires. More about the subway game.
Unpixel
A well-known city, seen whole from above, but turned into big blocky pixels. Name it in five tries: every wrong guess makes the pixels smaller, so the coastline, the river and the street pattern slowly come into focus. When the round ends the sharp satellite photo appears. The cities are the Easy and Medium ones, places most players have heard of.
Uncover
No photo at all at first. The city is drawn from its map layers, one at a time: its stadiums, its parks, its railways and train stations, its metro stations, its most famous landmarks, its rivers, lakes and coast, and its main streets. Each wrong guess adds one more layer. The layers that give a city away most easily, like the river or the main streets, usually come last, so an early guess is a real achievement. Map data © OpenStreetMap contributors.