Cities Word-Chain Game with AI and Online Play

One player names a city; the next names another real city starting on its last letter. No repeats. Whoever cannot answer loses. For example: Boston → Nairobi → Istanbul → Lisbon.

That depends on the language. The “Cities by letter” table on this page counts every letter in the game’s own dictionary and lists the cities behind the rarest ones — in Russian, for instance, only two cities begin with Ы.

Yes, while “Former names” is on (it is by default). Leningrad, Bombay, Constantinople and dozens more are accepted and chain by their own letters. Naming one blocks the other: it is the same place.

Yes. Create a room and send the link or QR code. Browsers connect directly; the host checks every move against the shared dictionary, and a reloaded tab reconnects.

It must be in the dictionary, start on the required letter, and not have been named yet this round. A typo gets a “did you mean…?” suggestion. If you picked a single-country scope and named a foreign city, the game says so rather than pretending the city does not exist.

Yes, but it plays letter scarcity — steering you toward letters with few cities left — and solves the endgame exactly. Keep answers in reserve for rare letters, and watch the counter beside the letter.

No — they fold to the base letter, so Malmo answers an M and Orebro answers an O; the chain never asks for a letter your keyboard cannot start a city with. Spanish keeps N-with-tilde as its own letter, Korean chains by syllable, and Arabic normalises the alef and taa-marbuta forms. The Cities-by-letter table on this page is built with those exact rules.