Geography prompt
Name a city built on seven hills — Best Krillion Answers
Facing “Name a city built on seven hills” 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: Kampala — specific, valid, and uncommon enough for Deep Cut or better.
Avoid (Plankton): Rome — correct, but the crowd's first thought.
One in a Krillion — 100 pts
The rarest valid answers — maximum depth.
Kampala · Amman
Deep Cut — 85 pts
Extremely rare picks most players miss.
Tirumala · Shimla
Rare — 60 pts
Genuinely uncommon — strong scoring.
San Francisco · Seattle
Schooler — 30 pts
Known but not top-of-mind.
Prague · Athens
Too Clever — 15 pts
A bit too obvious.
Lisbon · Istanbul
Plankton — 10 pts
The crowd's default — avoid these.
Rome
How to play this prompt
Strategy notes specific to “Name a city built on seven hills” — 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. Kampala is a perfect example — completely valid, just not the reflex answer. Tirumala plays the same role as a backup.
Rome feels safe because it's obviously right. That's precisely why it's worth the least — safety is crowded. Lisbon is the same kind of comfortable, low-scoring pick.
The middle of the bank tells the real story: San Francisco lands in Rare while Rome sits in Plankton — same prompt, wildly different rarity. That gap is exactly where the points hide.
Build yourself a mental shelf for this prompt: Shimla, Seattle, Tirumala. They're different answers, same rarity neighborhood — and that neighborhood is where dives are won.
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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