Geography prompt
Name a capital city in Europe — Best Krillion Answers
Facing “Name a capital city in Europe” 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: Vaduz — specific, valid, and uncommon enough for Deep Cut or better.
Avoid (Plankton): Paris, London, Rome — correct, but the crowd's first thought.
One in a Krillion — 100 pts
The rarest valid answers — maximum depth.
Vaduz · San Marino
Deep Cut — 85 pts
Extremely rare picks most players miss.
Tirana · Skopje
Rare — 60 pts
Genuinely uncommon — strong scoring.
Riga · Vilnius
Schooler — 30 pts
Known but not top-of-mind.
Lisbon · Vienna
Too Clever — 15 pts
A bit too obvious.
Madrid · Berlin
Plankton — 10 pts
The crowd's default — avoid these.
Paris · London · Rome
How to play this prompt
Strategy notes specific to “Name a capital city in Europe” — 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. Vaduz is a perfect example — completely valid, just not the reflex answer. Tirana plays the same role as a backup.
The trap is Paris — correct, but it's the reflex answer for a reason: it's the first thing the category suggests. London is the same story. Typing either one puts you shoulder-to-shoulder with most of the player base at 10 points.
Riga and Vienna are the honest middle of this prompt — answers most players know but few type first. If your instinct answer feels too easy, reach for this layer instead of the obvious.
Rare answers travel in packs: if Skopje comes to mind, Vilnius and Tirana are usually one thought away. Train yourself to pull the whole cluster, not just the first name that surfaces.
Rated 2/5 difficulty — 13 banked answers give you room to match, so the real skill is picking the rare ones, not just valid ones.
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