Name a city whose name starts with the word Los, Las, La, Le, El or The

Recorded answers

11,506 recorded answers

How to approach it

The productive move is to switch from memory to reference work. Rather than free-associating famous cities, open a gazetteer or a cartographic service and scroll through the administrative registers of countries whose place names routinely absorb a definite article. Work region by region, and once you land somewhere promising, zoom in rather than out: the smaller the locality, the less likely the crowd has already claimed it. Keep the six permitted openings in view so you never waste a guess on a near miss beginning with a different particle. Where a name repeats across dozens of villages, expect duplication and little reward; where it appears once, submit it. Confirm the entry is a populated place and not a district, beach or landmark before committing.

Get a hint

Start with the naming traditions that fuse a definite article to a place name, then ask which parts of the world you have explored least rather than which you know best.

A little more

Value sits well below the famous tier: villages, hamlets, suburbs and rural clusters appear in detailed gazetteers but almost never in ordinary conversation.

One step further

Size decides everything, because a name borne by one tiny locality scores far better than one shared by a metropolis, so hunt obscure administrative lists instead of skylines.

Reveal answers 11,506

La CiotatOne in a Krillion100points
El 60Deep Cut85points
El 77Deep Cut85points
El AadhiraDeep Cut85points
El AaiúnDeep Cut85points
El AaliDeep Cut85points
El AarasDeep Cut85points
El AbaadiyaDeep Cut85points
El AbabsaDeep Cut85points
El AbadiaDeep Cut85points
El AbadlaDeep Cut85points
El AbadliaDeep Cut85points
El AbaiedhDeep Cut85points
El AbanicoDeep Cut85points
El Abanico de PlenciaDeep Cut85points
El AbarDeep Cut85points
El AbastoDeep Cut85points
El AbbasaDeep Cut85points
El AbbasiyaDeep Cut85points
El AbbassiDeep Cut85points
El AbdDeep Cut85points
El Abiodh Sidi CheikhDeep Cut85points
El AblaqDeep Cut85points
El AbraDeep Cut85points
El AbrajDeep Cut85points
El AbrevaderoDeep Cut85points
El AbshitDeep Cut85points
El AbsiDeep Cut85points
El AbtalDeep Cut85points
El AbyariDeep Cut85points
El AcacioDeep Cut85points
El AcapralitoDeep Cut85points
El AcebrónDeep Cut85points
El AcebuchalDeep Cut85points
El AcebucheDeep Cut85points
El AceitalDeep Cut85points
El AceiteDeep Cut85points
El AceroDeep Cut85points
El AchabaDeep Cut85points
El AchechDeep Cut85points
El AchiotalDeep Cut85points
El AchirDeep Cut85points
El AchiralDeep Cut85points
El AchourDeep Cut85points
El AcoculDeep Cut85points
El AdaymaDeep Cut85points
El AddeDeep Cut85points
El AdelantoDeep Cut85points
El AdharDeep Cut85points
El AdharaDeep Cut85points

Why these answers count

The distribution is extraordinarily lopsided: of the 11,495 submissions that cleared the bar, 11,457 sat at 85 points, thirty-seven dropped to 60, and exactly one reached 100. That shape teaches more than any single guess. The 85-point mass runs from hamlets such as El Abra and El Achir to entries plenty of players would recognise by name, like El Aaiún, which suggests the scoring rewarded any verifiable, non-obvious place rather than punishing modest fame. The thirty-seven names at 60 were the near-automatic picks that almost everyone produced. The lone maximum, La Ciotat, shows what separates the very top: a coastal town solid enough to be real yet peripheral enough that the crowd skipped it. Aim for that 85 band deliberately and treat 100 as a bonus. A household name costs twenty-five points; a village that exists on a gazetteer costs only a minute of verification.