Krillion Recorded answers
884 recorded answers
How to approach it
Work top-down through scale rather than trying to recall exotic names. Begin with the biggest informal groupings people actually say out loud, then test each one against a single filter: does more than one national border run through it? If the name lives entirely inside one country's territory, drop it immediately. From there, mine the vocabulary of physical geography, because ranges, plateaus, basins, deserts, and forest belts are almost never confined to a single state, and the puzzle's answer key leans heavily on them. Cultural and historical labels work too, but they are more contested, so keep them as a second pass. Finish by scanning your list for names that sound scholarly or regional rather than touristy, and submit the ones you can defend in one sentence.
Get a hint
Start with the labels people use informally for chunks of the map: rough compass groupings, cultural blocs, and natural zones all belong in the pool.
A little more
Narrow by asking whether two or more national borders pass through it; a name that only ever appears inside one country's maps is the wrong track.
One step further
The strongest candidates are usually physical or ecological units, since mountain chains, river basins, and biome belts rarely respect political lines.
Reveal answers 884
- Purcell MountainsDeep Cut85points
- QullasuyuDeep Cut85points
- RaetiaDeep Cut85points
- Rann of KutchDeep Cut85points
- RätikonDeep Cut85points
- Red River basin (Asia)Deep Cut85points
- Red River ValleyDeep Cut85points
- Red RutheniaDeep Cut85points
- Red Sea HillsDeep Cut85points
- Red Sea mangrovesDeep Cut85points
- Remote OceaniaDeep Cut85points
- Rhaetian AlpsDeep Cut85points
- Rhine ValleyDeep Cut85points
- Rhine–Meuse–Scheldt deltaDeep Cut85points
- Rhodope MountainsDeep Cut85points
- Río de la PlataDeep Cut85points
- Río de la Plata basinDeep Cut85points
- Rio Grande basinDeep Cut85points
- RivieraDeep Cut85points
- Rub' al KhaliDeep Cut85points
- RumeliaDeep Cut85points
- RutheniaDeep Cut85points
- Rwenzori MountainsDeep Cut85points
- Rwenzori–Virunga montane moorlandsDeep Cut85points
- Sahara-SahelDeep Cut85points
- Saharan AtlasDeep Cut85points
- Saharo-Arabian regionDeep Cut85points
- Sahelian Acacia savannaDeep Cut85points
- SahulDeep Cut85points
- Saint Elias MountainsDeep Cut85points
- Saint Lawrence LowlandsDeep Cut85points
- Saint MartinDeep Cut85points
- Salish Sea regionDeep Cut85points
- Salween basinDeep Cut85points
- SamariaDeep Cut85points
- San Diego–TijuanaDeep Cut85points
- SandžakDeep Cut85points
- Šar MountainsDeep Cut85points
- Sarawat MountainsDeep Cut85points
- SarmatiaDeep Cut85points
- Sayan MountainsDeep Cut85points
- Scandinavian MountainsDeep Cut85points
- Scandinavian PeninsulaDeep Cut85points
- SchleswigDeep Cut85points
- ScythiaDeep Cut85points
- Sea of Azov regionDeep Cut85points
- Sebatik IslandDeep Cut85points
- Selkirk MountainsDeep Cut85points
- SeloniaDeep Cut85points
- SemigalliaDeep Cut85points
Why these answers count
The reveal ran to 884 entries, which tells you the graders were generous with anything coherently regional: 757 answers landed at 85 points and another 79 at 60, so breadth of plausible naming mattered far more than precision. The lone 100-point pick, Polesia, is a marsh-and-forest territory straddling several national borders, and its isolation at the top is the whole lesson, because scoring rewards the pick almost nobody else thought of. Mid-tier entries such as the Accursed Mountains, the Adamawa Plateau, or the Afar Triangle are perfectly good regions, yet they sit at 85 because a large share of players reached the same physical-geography shelf. The 60-point band looks like the safety net for broader or fuzzier calls. Rarer framing earns more: an ecological belt like Acacia–Commiphora bushland scores above a famous mountain range precisely because fewer people can name it. Aim for a real, defensible territory that most players would never list.