Welcome to the Transfiguration
Delivery Service
Every time your package moves through one of our cities, it transforms into something new. By the time it reaches your destination, it's turned into something completely different! How delightful!
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Some notes on how we work:
- Each package has a label (word, name, abbreviation or single letter) representing its contents.
- Each package…
- leaves its origin as a given
- passes through several cities
- before finally reaching its destination as a given
- leaves its origin as a given
- Every time a package passes through a city, its contents change according to the rule associated with that city.
- The number on an arrow is the length of the word representing the package's contents at that point.
- Each path (arrow) is used once.
Your job:
- Match up each city in the list below with a blank box in the map.
- To figure out what you’ve created after all the cities are in place, look at:
- The 15 cities with colored backgrounds, and the arrows pointing to them
- The three cities with dashed borders
| City | Rule | Example input | Example output |
|---|---|---|---|
| Alexandria | change an H into an R | CHIMP | CRIMP |
| Amsterdam | what its middle letter stands for | BRB | RIGHT |
| Ankara | what is on top of it | ANGEL | HALO |
| Athens | brother | ROMULUS | REMUS |
| Auckland | opposite | UP | DOWN |
| Bangkok | AKA | ROCKET | ARUGULA |
| Beijing | shift every letter 4 spots forward in the alphabet | PAWN | TEAR |
| Cairo | remove last sound | BEACH | BEE |
| Chicago | instance that's green | MUPPET | KERMIT |
| Hong Kong | name of its biggest star | SCARFACE | PACINO |
| Istanbul | is a symbol for... | CLOVER | LUCK |
| Jakarta | add T and anagram | PARENT | PATTERN |
| London | who voiced this character | SHREK | MYERS |
| Los Angeles | remove 1st letter and anagram to get body part | SILVER | LIVER |
| Madrid | remove a letter and anagram to get Biblical name | HONDA | NOAH |
| Mexico City | was the leader of... | ATTILA | HUNS |
| Moscow | reverse | AVID | DIVA |
| Mumbai | comes immediately before... | BREAKFAST | LUNCH |
| Nairobi | add E and anagram | CHAP | PEACH |
| New York City | remove last letter | FLAMINGO | FLAMING |
| Osaka | homophone | PEAR | PAIR |
| Paris | same consonants | CATAN | AUCTION |
| Rio de Janeiro | partner | ROMEO | JULIET |
| Riyadh | anagram | STAIN | SAINT |
| Rome | remove first letter | ELATE | LATE |
| Singapore | instance that's yellow | TELETUBBY | LAA-LAA |
| Sydney | 5-letter word that can be prepended | SHOE | HORSE |
| Tokyo | what occurs at the end | TRAIN | CABOOSE |
| Washington, D.C. | comes immediately after... | JOHNSON | KENNEDY |
| Xiamen | append letter | TOTE | TOTEM |
How to Navigate the Map
• Scroll up or down on the map to zoom in/out
• Hold down on the map to drag and move it around
• Click the arrows to cycle through 10 colors (to help you keep track of the paths)
How to Navigate the Map
• Pinch the map to zoom in/out
• Use one finger to drag and move the map around
That's right!
You solved Connected Cities!
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