Geography prompt
Name a capital city in Africa — Best Krillion Answers
Facing “Name a capital city in Africa” in a dive? Here is how to think rare: the best picks, the safe backups, and the crowd defaults to avoid. Every answer below is real and valid — rarity decides the tier.
Best rare pick: Mbabane — specific, valid, and uncommon enough for Deep Cut or better.
Avoid (Plankton): Cairo — correct, but the crowd's first thought.
One in a Krillion — 100 pts
The rarest valid answers — maximum depth.
Mbabane · Moroni
Deep Cut — 85 pts
Extremely rare picks most players miss.
Ouagadougou · Antananarivo
Rare — 60 pts
Genuinely uncommon — strong scoring.
Dakar · Accra
Schooler — 30 pts
Known but not top-of-mind.
Nairobi · Addis Ababa
Too Clever — 15 pts
A bit too obvious.
Pretoria · Cape Town
Plankton — 10 pts
The crowd's default — avoid these.
Cairo
How to play this prompt
Strategy notes specific to “Name a capital city in Africa” — not generic advice.
Geography rewards breadth over fame. If your first thought is a capital city, someone else already typed it.
The winning instinct on this one: skip your first thought entirely and type your second. Mbabane is a perfect example — completely valid, just not the reflex answer. Ouagadougou plays the same role as a backup.
Watch out for Cairo. It's valid, but validity isn't the game — rarity is. Pretoria has the same problem: everyone knows it, so everyone types it, so it scores like everyone.
The middle of the bank tells the real story: Dakar lands in Rare while Cairo sits in Plankton — same prompt, wildly different rarity. That gap is exactly where the points hide.
Think in clusters, not singles. Antananarivo, Accra, and Ouagadougou sit in the same rarity band — knowing one should unlock the others when the clock is running.
Rated 4/5 difficulty — only 11 banked answers, so matching the bank is genuinely hard. Precision matters more than speed here.
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