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
- El RodaderoDeep Cut85points
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- El RomDeep Cut85points
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- El RomeralDeep Cut85points
- El RomereñoDeep Cut85points
- El RomeroDeep Cut85points
- El RompidoDeep Cut85points
- El RompíoDeep Cut85points
- El RonquilloDeep Cut85points
- El RoqueDeep Cut85points
- El RosalDeep Cut85points
- El RosalitoDeep Cut85points
- El RosarioDeep Cut85points
- El Rosario de ArribaDeep Cut85points
- El Rosario XochitiopanDeep Cut85points
- El Rosario y el QuemadoDeep Cut85points
- El RosaritoDeep Cut85points
- El RosedalDeep Cut85points
- El RourellDeep Cut85points
- El RoyoDeep Cut85points
- El RubíDeep Cut85points
- El RubioDeep Cut85points
- El RucioDeep Cut85points
- El RudaDeep Cut85points
- El RuedoDeep Cut85points
- El RuloDeep Cut85points
- El RusioDeep Cut85points
- El RusoDeep Cut85points
- El RuwaigatDeep Cut85points
- El RuwainiDeep Cut85points
- El RuwaisatDeep Cut85points
- El SaadaDeep Cut85points
- El SaadiyaDeep Cut85points
- El SaaydaDeep Cut85points
- El Saayda BahariDeep Cut85points
- El Saayda El QibliyaDeep Cut85points
- El SabaghineDeep Cut85points
- El SabahDeep Cut85points
- El SabilDeep Cut85points
- El SabinalDeep Cut85points
- El SabinitoDeep Cut85points
- El SabinoDeep Cut85points
- El Sabino GordoDeep Cut85points
- El SacrificioDeep Cut85points
- El SaedaDeep Cut85points
- El SaeidiyaDeep Cut85points
- El SafaDeep Cut85points
- El SafaynaDeep 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.