Geography prompt
Name a capital city in South America — Best Krillion Answers
Facing “Name a capital city in South America” 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: Paramaribo — specific, valid, and uncommon enough for Deep Cut or better.
Avoid (Plankton): Buenos Aires, Brasília — correct, but the crowd's first thought.
One in a Krillion — 100 pts
The rarest valid answers — maximum depth.
Paramaribo · Georgetown
Deep Cut — 85 pts
Extremely rare picks most players miss.
Asunción · Montevideo
Rare — 60 pts
Genuinely uncommon — strong scoring.
Quito · La Paz
Schooler — 30 pts
Known but not top-of-mind.
Bogotá · Lima
Too Clever — 15 pts
A bit too obvious.
Santiago · Caracas
Plankton — 10 pts
The crowd's default — avoid these.
Buenos Aires · Brasília
How to play this prompt
Strategy notes specific to “Name a capital city in South America” — 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. Paramaribo is a perfect example — completely valid, just not the reflex answer. Asunción plays the same role as a backup.
Watch out for Buenos Aires. It's valid, but validity isn't the game — rarity is. Brasília 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: Quito lands in Rare while Buenos Aires sits in Plankton — same prompt, wildly different rarity. That gap is exactly where the points hide.
Think in clusters, not singles. Montevideo, La Paz, and Asunción sit in the same rarity band — knowing one should unlock the others when the clock is running.
Rated 3/5 difficulty with 12 banked answers — a balanced prompt where rare-answer thinking decides everything.
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