Name a currency worth less than the US dollar

October 26, 2026 · Daily Dive #103

Explore 145 recorded answers and their points for question 1 on October 26, 2026.

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145 recorded names on October 26, 2026, 109 at 85 or higher. The highest recorded score on this question is 100.

Sweep through exchange-rate quotation lists and note the units that need a large number of them to buy a single benchmark unit — those sit in the weaker half of the board. Any official monetary unit of a sovereign state or dependent territory counts if its rate sits below one-to-one with the benchmark; crypto tokens, historical coins and informal money do not.

145 recorded answers109 at 85+ points100 highest recorded points
  • One in a Krillion1100 pts
  • Deep Cut10885 pts
  • Rare1960 pts
  • Schooler1230 pts
  • Plankton510 pts
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Recorded answers

145 recorded answers

How to approach it

Work from the exchange-rate board rather than from memory of currency names. Mentally sort the world into strong-quotation and weak-quotation camps: a handful of units sit above the benchmark, a large middle band clusters not far below it, and a long tail trades in the hundreds, thousands or millions per unit. Choose the band you can actually enumerate, then write down every name you can recall from that band before judging any of them. Spelling matters less than recognisability, but an answer that is unmistakably one country's official tender beats a vague or informal label. If two candidates feel equally good, prefer the one more players are likely to have typed, then stop: scoring rewards being inside the crowd, not being clever.

Get a hint

Start with the geography of money: most of the world's monetary units are quoted far below the benchmark, so the field is wide open and the real difficulty lies in picking one you can name without hesitating.

A little more

Narrow the map by continent, then by the size and openness of each economy — small, import-heavy or devaluation-prone economies tend to quote their units at hundreds or thousands per benchmark unit.

One step further

Recall the units whose names describe a weight of metal or a fraction of some older coin, and the ones that became separate tenders only after a recent redenomination; that vocabulary is what the reveal rewards.

Reveal answers 145
  • Kiribati dollarDeep Cut85points
  • Kyrgyzstani somDeep Cut85points
  • Lao kipDeep Cut85points
  • Lebanese poundDeep Cut85points
  • Lesotho lotiDeep Cut85points
  • Liberian dollarDeep Cut85points
  • Libyan dinarDeep Cut85points
  • Macanese patacaDeep Cut85points
  • Macedonian denarDeep Cut85points
  • Malagasy ariaryDeep Cut85points
  • Malawian kwachaDeep Cut85points
  • Maldivian rufiyaaDeep Cut85points
  • Mauritanian ouguiyaDeep Cut85points
  • Mauritian rupeeDeep Cut85points
  • Moldovan leuDeep Cut85points
  • Mongolian tögrögDeep Cut85points
  • Mozambican meticalDeep Cut85points
  • Namibian dollarDeep Cut85points
  • Nepalese rupeeDeep Cut85points
  • New Taiwan dollarDeep Cut85points
  • Nicaraguan córdobaDeep Cut85points
  • Nigerian nairaDeep Cut85points
  • North Korean wonDeep Cut85points
  • Papua New Guinean kinaDeep Cut85points
  • Paraguayan guaraníDeep Cut85points
  • Peruvian solDeep Cut85points
  • Qatari riyalDeep Cut85points
  • Romanian leuDeep Cut85points
  • Rwandan francDeep Cut85points
  • Salvadoran colónDeep Cut85points
  • Samoan talaDeep Cut85points
  • São Tomé and Príncipe dobraDeep Cut85points
  • Seychellois rupeeDeep Cut85points
  • Sierra Leonean leoneDeep Cut85points
  • Solomon Islands dollarDeep Cut85points
  • Somali shillingDeep Cut85points
  • Somaliland shillingDeep Cut85points
  • South Sudanese poundDeep Cut85points
  • Sri Lankan rupeeDeep Cut85points
  • Sudanese poundDeep Cut85points
  • Surinamese dollarDeep Cut85points
  • Swazi lilangeniDeep Cut85points
  • Syrian poundDeep Cut85points
  • Tajikistani somoniDeep Cut85points
  • Tanzanian shillingDeep Cut85points
  • Tongan paʻangaDeep Cut85points
  • Transnistrian rubleDeep Cut85points
  • Trinidad and Tobago dollarDeep Cut85points
  • Tunisian dinarDeep Cut85points
  • Turkmenistani manatDeep Cut85points

Why these answers count

The reveal is enormous — 145 recorded answers — and it is dominated by a single tier: 107 answers landed at 85 points, with only one at 100 and 19 at 60. That shape tells you the crowd converged almost instantly. Any recognised national tender quoted well below the benchmark scored the standard 85, from the Afghan afghani and the Albanian lek through to the Malawian kwacha; naming one of those was enough to be safely inside the majority. Reaching 100 required the outlier: Zimbabwe Gold (ZiG), a very recent unit that few players thought to type, so it stood alone at the top. The 60-point band is where answers were real but less familiar or less cleanly named, still counted yet shared by far fewer players. Rarer picks earn more because scoring compares your answer with everyone else's, so the moment a currency is obvious to the whole room its value collapses to the floor of the top tier.

Recorded from the game’s published reveal · Source · Checked 26 Oct, 06:16 UTC

Names and scores reflect the linked dated reveal. The original game makes the final decision on live acceptance. Editorial policy