Geography prompt
Name a capital city in Asia — Best Krillion Answers
Facing “Name a capital city in Asia” 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: Thimphu — specific, valid, and uncommon enough for Deep Cut or better.
Avoid (Plankton): Tokyo — correct, but the crowd's first thought.
One in a Krillion — 100 pts
The rarest valid answers — maximum depth.
Thimphu · Ulaanbaatar
Deep Cut — 85 pts
Extremely rare picks most players miss.
Kathmandu · Dhaka
Rare — 60 pts
Genuinely uncommon — strong scoring.
Hanoi · Jakarta
Schooler — 30 pts
Known but not top-of-mind.
Bangkok · Seoul
Too Clever — 15 pts
A bit too obvious.
Beijing · New Delhi
Plankton — 10 pts
The crowd's default — avoid these.
Tokyo
How to play this prompt
Strategy notes specific to “Name a capital city in Asia” — 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. Thimphu is a perfect example — completely valid, just not the reflex answer. Kathmandu plays the same role as a backup.
Tokyo feels safe because it's obviously right. That's precisely why it's worth the least — safety is crowded. Beijing is the same kind of comfortable, low-scoring pick.
Notice how Hanoi (Rare) outscores Tokyo (Plankton) without being obscure at all. Rarity isn't about difficulty — it's about what the crowd overlooks.
Rare answers travel in packs: if Dhaka comes to mind, Jakarta and Kathmandu are usually one thought away. Train yourself to pull the whole cluster, not just the first name that surfaces.
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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