Krillion Recorded answers
30 recorded answers
How to approach it
The workable method is mechanical rather than inspired: build a complete list of sovereign states from a blank regional map, then spell each name out and mark where the h falls. Most players stop after a handful of loud, obvious picks, so push deliberately past that first wave and mine the long official titles, the compound names linked by a conjunction, island groupings and small states that rarely surface in conversation. Keep a separate column for constituent countries and other entities that behave like countries, since the reveal treats several of them as legitimate. Finally, rank your survivors by how seldom they appear in ordinary news copy and submit the least fashionable one rather than the name that arrived first.
Get a hint
Start from a full roll call of sovereign states and spell each official name out letter by letter, because familiarity makes the eye glide past an h buried in the middle of a word.
A little more
Shift your attention to the long compound and hyphenated titles, and to island groupings where a descriptive word, not the head noun, carries the letter you need.
One step further
When the obvious list feels exhausted, work through the two-part names joined by a conjunction, the semi-recognised entities, and the second half of every double name with the same care as the first.
Reveal answers 30
- SeychellesOne in a Krillion100points
- Bosnia and HerzegovinaDeep Cut85points
- Marshall IslandsDeep Cut85points
- Northern IrelandDeep Cut85points
- BahrainRare60points
- BhutanRare60points
- LesothoRare60points
- LiechtensteinRare60points
- LithuaniaRare60points
- North MacedoniaRare60points
- South SudanRare60points
- AfghanistanSchooler30points
- BahamasSchooler30points
- BangladeshSchooler30points
- ChadSchooler30points
- CzechiaSchooler30points
- EthiopiaSchooler30points
- GhanaSchooler30points
- KazakhstanSchooler30points
- NetherlandsSchooler30points
- North KoreaSchooler30points
- PhilippinesSchooler30points
- South AfricaSchooler30points
- South KoreaSchooler30points
- ChilePlankton10points
- ChinaPlankton10points
- HaitiPlankton10points
- HondurasPlankton10points
- HungaryPlankton10points
- ThailandPlankton10points
Why these answers count
Points in this round measured rarity rather than correctness, so the hundred-point answer was the single most overlooked name on the board: Seychelles, a short island state whose h disappears in the middle of the word and which almost nobody reaches before the obvious candidates. The eighty-five band went to Bosnia and Herzegovina, Marshall Islands and Northern Ireland, all valid, all longer or more awkward than the crowd-pleasers, and named by only a few players before the well ran dry. The crowded sixty-point tier is where safe recall collects: Bahrain, Bhutan, Lesotho, Liechtenstein, Lithuania, North Macedonia and South Sudan are the names that arrive within the first seconds, so a large share of players split a modest pool. A short familiar name therefore caps your ceiling, while an unusual length, a contested status or an h hidden mid-word keeps the field thin and the reward high.