Krillion Recorded answers
84 recorded answers
How to approach it
Treat the map as a graph and work outward. First, fix the rule in your head: sovereign states, land boundaries only, each neighbouring state counted once however long the shared line is. Next, sweep continents one at a time and ask which territories sit in the middle of a cluster rather than at its edge, because coastal and island states rarely accumulate enough separate neighbours. For each candidate that surfaces, count clockwise around the outline and stop the moment you reach four, since a partial trace confirms it. If a name stalls at three, set it aside and try a denser neighbourhood instead of forcing the count. Finally, prefer ordinary picks over showy ones; the scoring rewards the answer most players reach, and the plain interior state is usually it.
Get a hint
The count depends on geometry more than politics: a long, jagged outline in a crowded part of a continent beats a large but isolated territory every time.
A little more
Filter by the shape of the neighbourhood rather than by size: republics wedged into continental interiors, and small states sitting in dense clusters, are the profiles that clear four most often.
One step further
Promising candidates often carry one long frontier with a single large neighbour plus several short ones stacked along the same edge, an asymmetric pattern worth looking for before you commit.
Reveal answers 84
- MontenegroOne in a Krillion100points
- AngolaDeep Cut85points
- Burkina FasoDeep Cut85points
- CameroonDeep Cut85points
- Central African RepublicDeep Cut85points
- ColombiaDeep Cut85points
- GuatemalaDeep Cut85points
- GuineaDeep Cut85points
- Republic of the CongoDeep Cut85points
- SenegalDeep Cut85points
- TajikistanDeep Cut85points
- AfghanistanRare60points
- AlbaniaRare60points
- AlgeriaRare60points
- ArmeniaRare60points
- AzerbaijanRare60points
- BelarusRare60points
- BeninRare60points
- BoliviaRare60points
- BotswanaRare60points
- BulgariaRare60points
- ChadRare60points
- CroatiaRare60points
- CzechiaRare60points
- EthiopiaRare60points
- GeorgiaRare60points
- HungaryRare60points
- IsraelRare60points
- Ivory CoastRare60points
- JordanRare60points
- KenyaRare60points
- KosovoRare60points
- KyrgyzstanRare60points
- LaosRare60points
- LatviaRare60points
- LibyaRare60points
- LithuaniaRare60points
- MaliRare60points
- MozambiqueRare60points
- MyanmarRare60points
- NamibiaRare60points
- NigerRare60points
- NigeriaRare60points
- North MacedoniaRare60points
- PeruRare60points
- RomaniaRare60points
- RwandaRare60points
- Saudi ArabiaRare60points
- SerbiaRare60points
- SlovakiaRare60points
Why these answers count
Scoring here ran inversely to familiarity. The 49 answers parked at 60 points are the ones that arrive first: big, famous, unmistakably central territories whose borders are common knowledge, plus a long tail of states that sit in crowded regions and are easy to reel off, such as Afghanistan, Albania, Algeria, Armenia, Azerbaijan and Belarus. Value came from the second-tier finds, the ones that qualify on inspection rather than instinct: Angola, Burkina Faso, Cameroon, the Central African Republic, Colombia, Guatemala, Guinea, the Republic of the Congo, Senegal and Tajikistan each drew 85. These are countries players know exist but rarely reach for when counting neighbours, so each was named by only a handful of entrants. Above them sits a single outlier: Montenegro, the only answer worth 100 points, offered by exactly one player. A small state that few would picture first, it cleared four borders comfortably and, precisely because almost nobody thought of it, paid the maximum. Rarity, not obscurity for its own sake, set the price.