Geography prompt
Name a famous strait in the world — Best Krillion Answers
Facing “Name a famous strait in the world” 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: Torres Strait — specific, valid, and uncommon enough for Deep Cut or better.
Avoid (Plankton): Strait of Gibraltar — correct, but the crowd's first thought.
One in a Krillion — 100 pts
The rarest valid answers — maximum depth.
Torres Strait · Strait of Magellan
Deep Cut — 85 pts
Extremely rare picks most players miss.
Dardanelles · Bosporus
Rare — 60 pts
Genuinely uncommon — strong scoring.
Strait of Hormuz · Bering Strait
Schooler — 30 pts
Known but not top-of-mind.
Strait of Malacca
Too Clever — 15 pts
A bit too obvious.
English Channel
Plankton — 10 pts
The crowd's default — avoid these.
Strait of Gibraltar
How to play this prompt
Strategy notes specific to “Name a famous strait in the world” — not generic advice.
Geography prompts punish the obvious: everyone reaches for the same famous places first.
Lead with Torres Strait. It's the kind of answer that makes other players say 'I knew that!' after the reveal — which is exactly why they didn't type it. Dardanelles works the same way if you want a second bullet in the chamber.
Watch out for Strait of Gibraltar. It's valid, but validity isn't the game — rarity is. English Channel 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: Strait of Hormuz lands in Rare while Strait of Gibraltar sits in Plankton — same prompt, wildly different rarity. That gap is exactly where the points hide.
Rare answers travel in packs: if Bosporus comes to mind, Bering Strait and Dardanelles are usually one thought away. Train yourself to pull the whole cluster, not just the first name that surfaces.
Rated 4/5 difficulty — only 9 banked answers, so matching the bank is genuinely hard. Precision matters more than speed here.
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