Krillion Recorded answers
12 recorded answers
How to approach it
Begin by writing the two countries at the top of a sheet and drawing two columns beneath them. For the first column, run through every land frontier in order, west to east and north to south, and write down whatever comes to mind, even the ones that feel too small or too obvious. Then repeat the exercise for the second column, which will probably feel shorter but is easy to underestimate. Merge the columns and remove duplicates so you can see how many distinct states you actually have. Before answering, check each candidate against a map to confirm it touches land rather than water only. Finally, pick the entry you judged least likely to be chosen by other players, since obscurity is what the scoring rewards.
Get a hint
Start with the larger, well-known countries on the map and then push outward to the small ones wedged between them; both groups belong to the same family of possible replies.
A little more
One of the two countries in the question has a long list of neighbours and the other a short one, so a complete sweep needs two separate passes rather than a single tidy lap.
One step further
The rarest entries tend to be tiny states or names that rarely surface in travel and news coverage; those are the ones most players leave out and the ones that pay best.
Reveal answers 12
- LiechtensteinOne in a Krillion100points
- North MacedoniaDeep Cut85points
- SlovakiaDeep Cut85points
- SloveniaDeep Cut85points
- AlbaniaRare60points
- BulgariaRare60points
- Czech RepublicRare60points
- HungaryRare60points
- ItalySchooler30points
- SwitzerlandSchooler30points
- GermanyPlankton10points
- TurkeyPlankton10points
Why these answers count
Scoring here tracks how crowded a reply is rather than how clever it sounds. Twelve answers made the official list but only eight cleared sixty points, which tells you that four perfectly correct replies were too popular to be worth much. Among those that did clear the bar the spread is instructive: Liechtenstein took the full 100, the sort of microstate people forget sits on a border at all, while North Macedonia, Slovakia and Slovenia shared 85, respectable picks but more widely recalled. Albania, Bulgaria, Czech Republic and Hungary settled at 60, the entry price for a correct yet fairly familiar name. The lesson is that the puzzle rewards a second and third pass through your memory, the scruffy corners of the map a hurried player skips. If you want maximum value, resist the first names that come to mind and keep going until you reach something small, landlocked or rarely discussed. Correctness is only the entry ticket; rarity does the rest.