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
- American JournalDeep Cut85points
- American Journal and Suffolk IntelligencerDeep Cut85points
- American Journal DailyDeep Cut85points
- American Journal NewsDeep Cut85points
- American Journalism ReviewDeep Cut85points
- American KoreanDeep Cut85points
- American Korean NewsDeep Cut85points
- American Labor Union JournalDeep Cut85points
- American Lawn TennisDeep Cut85points
- American Liberty ReportDeep Cut85points
- American LibrariesDeep Cut85points
- American Literary AdvertiserDeep Cut85points
- American LookoutDeep Cut85points
- American MachinistDeep Cut85points
- American Magazine and Historical ChronicleDeep Cut85points
- American MechanicDeep Cut85points
- American Mechanic and Home JournalDeep Cut85points
- American Media Group - AMG-NewsDeep Cut85points
- American Medical NewsDeep Cut85points
- American Metal MarketDeep Cut85points
- American MirrorDeep Cut85points
- American MonitorDeep Cut85points
- American NeighborDeep Cut85points
- American NetworkDeep Cut85points
- American OutlookDeep Cut85points
- American PartisanDeep Cut85points
- American Patriot DailyDeep Cut85points
- American Pharmacy NewsDeep Cut85points
- American PilotDeep Cut85points
- American Pioneer, and Fireman's ChronicleDeep Cut85points
- American Poultry YardDeep Cut85points
- American PresbyterianDeep Cut85points
- American Press AssociationDeep Cut85points
- American ProgressDeep Cut85points
- American Public MediaDeep Cut85points
- American PurposeDeep Cut85points
- American Record GuideDeep Cut85points
- American ReformerDeep Cut85points
- American Reformer and Pennsylvania State Temperance OrganDeep Cut85points
- American RegisterDeep Cut85points
- American RenaissanceDeep Cut85points
- American Repertory and AdvertiserDeep Cut85points
- American ReporterDeep Cut85points
- American RepublicDeep Cut85points
- American ReviewDeep Cut85points
- American River MessengerDeep Cut85points
- American Saturday CourierDeep Cut85points
- American Saturday NightDeep Cut85points
- American School & UniversityDeep Cut85points
- American ScientistDeep 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.