Recorded answers
100,848 recorded answers
How to approach it
Rank candidates by reach rather than reputation, then work downward. Start with national titles, step down to county and city mastheads, then to weekly sheets covering a single street or school. Change the axis and go through broadcasting, agencies and internet-only ventures, since each medium coins names differently. Take subjects one at a time and ask what exists for business, athletics, worship, farming, medicine and the arts. Finish with oddities: plenty of mastheads begin with a numeral, a symbol, an acronym or a word from a tongue you do not speak, and those are precisely the entries other players forget. Write down everything you can honestly name, because obscurity pays and a modest, confident set beats a famous one.
Get a hint
Begin with the endless fringe of publishing: nearly every town, trade association, congregation and diaspora community sustains at least one title of its own, and most of those names never travel beyond their own street.
A little more
Move next to mastheads that hardly ever get quoted elsewhere: hobby monthlies, union and student papers, small broadcasters and the agencies that supply copy to bigger newsrooms.
One step further
Bear in mind that a masthead may open with a numeral, a punctuation mark, a lone letter or a script you cannot read, so let those odd shapes jog your memory instead of skipping past them.
Reveal answers 100,848
- Columbia PatriotDeep Cut85points
- Columbia PhoenixDeep Cut85points
- Columbia Political ReviewDeep Cut85points
- Columbia RecordDeep Cut85points
- Columbia RoadDeep Cut85points
- Columbia StandardDeep Cut85points
- Columbia StarDeep Cut85points
- Columbia StatesmanDeep Cut85points
- Columbia TelescopeDeep Cut85points
- Columbia TopicsDeep Cut85points
- Columbia University RecordDeep Cut85points
- Columbia Urban Broadcast NetworkDeep Cut85points
- Columbia Valley PioneerDeep Cut85points
- Columbia Weekly TimesDeep Cut85points
- Columbia's Black NewsDeep Cut85points
- Columbian Advertiser and Commercial, Mechanic, and Agricultural GazetteDeep Cut85points
- Columbian CentinelDeep Cut85points
- Columbian CourierDeep Cut85points
- Columbian GazetteDeep Cut85points
- Columbian HeraldDeep Cut85points
- Columbian MinervaDeep Cut85points
- Columbian Museum & Savannah AdvertiserDeep Cut85points
- Columbian RegisterDeep Cut85points
- Columbian RepositoryDeep Cut85points
- Columbian-ProgressDeep Cut85points
- Columbian, & District AdvertiserDeep Cut85points
- Columbiana SentinelDeep Cut85points
- Columbine CourierDeep Cut85points
- Columbus AdvocateDeep Cut85points
- Columbus AliveDeep Cut85points
- Columbus Business FirstDeep Cut85points
- Columbus ChronicleDeep Cut85points
- Columbus CitizenDeep Cut85points
- Columbus CourierDeep Cut85points
- Columbus Daily EnquirerDeep Cut85points
- Columbus Daily Enquirer-SunDeep Cut85points
- Columbus Daily TimesDeep Cut85points
- Columbus DemocratDeep Cut85points
- Columbus EnquirerDeep Cut85points
- Columbus EraDeep Cut85points
- Columbus GazetteDeep Cut85points
- Columbus IndexDeep Cut85points
- Columbus Jewish NewsDeep Cut85points
- Columbus JournalDeep Cut85points
- Columbus Journal-RepublicanDeep Cut85points
- Columbus Looking GlassDeep Cut85points
- Columbus MessengerDeep Cut85points
- Columbus MonthlyDeep Cut85points
- Columbus News-DemocratDeep Cut85points
- Columbus News-ReportDeep Cut85points
Why these answers count
The official tally came to 99,215 entries, and the score spread shows that nearly every honest attempt was accepted at some level: one pick reached the full 100, while 98,529 sat at 85 and only 658 landed at 60. No entry in the top band came from a famous masthead; the single 100 went to The Tombstone Epitaph, a long-lived sheet from a very small market that few players outside its home ground could recall. The 85 tier holds the enormous international tail, where :24 (Slovakia), ¡Ahora! and ¡Alarma! sit beside thousands of small, punctuation-heavy names from places most solvers have never worked in. They score well because almost nobody can retrieve them, yet each one is a real, documented newsroom. The 60 group collects picks that are simply easier to reach, whether through size, easy translation or an obvious national origin. What drives value here is rarity, not prestige: a household name that millions could list earns less than a municipal weekly only a neighbour would remember.