Recorded answers
11,507 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 11,507
- Le BuissonDeep Cut85points
- Le Buisson-de-CadouinDeep Cut85points
- Le BuretDeep Cut85points
- Le BurgaudDeep Cut85points
- Le BuscaDeep Cut85points
- Le BusseauDeep Cut85points
- Le ButorDeep Cut85points
- Le CabanialDeep Cut85points
- Le CabotDeep Cut85points
- Le CailarDeep Cut85points
- Le CaireDeep Cut85points
- Le CalebassierDeep Cut85points
- Le CamasDeep Cut85points
- Le CamboutDeep Cut85points
- Le Camp ChazeauDeep Cut85points
- Le Camp du GolDeep Cut85points
- Le Camp MagloireDeep Cut85points
- Le CanalDeep Cut85points
- Le CanetDeep Cut85points
- Le CannellaDeep Cut85points
- Le CannetDeep Cut85points
- Le Cannet-des-MauresDeep Cut85points
- Le Cap à PaulDeep Cut85points
- Le Cap CaméliasDeep Cut85points
- Le Cap d'AgdeDeep Cut85points
- Le Cap LelièvreDeep Cut85points
- Le Cap-les HautsDeep Cut85points
- Le CapreauDeep Cut85points
- Le CaramiDeep Cut85points
- Le CarbetDeep Cut85points
- Le CardonnoisDeep Cut85points
- Le CarlaretDeep Cut85points
- Le CarmelDeep Cut85points
- Le CarponDeep Cut85points
- Le CarréDeep Cut85points
- Le Carré BleuDeep Cut85points
- Le Casine-Perignano-SpinelliDeep Cut85points
- Le CasteletDeep Cut85points
- Le CastellaDeep Cut85points
- Le CastellardDeep Cut85points
- Le Castellard-MélanDeep Cut85points
- Le CastelletDeep Cut85points
- Le CastéraDeep Cut85points
- Le Cateau-CambrésisDeep Cut85points
- Le CateletDeep Cut85points
- Le CatelierDeep Cut85points
- Le Caule-les-VentesDeep Cut85points
- Le Caule-Sainte-BeuveDeep Cut85points
- Le CauséDeep Cut85points
- Le CausseDeep 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.