Krillion Recorded answers
22 recorded answers
How to approach it
Work the list in two passes. First, run through every country whose usual name is a union of two elements, and write each one down before judging it, because jumping straight to the famous few is how players leave easy points on the table. Second, switch to a purely visual scan: read each remaining name letter by letter and ask whether the sequence could be sitting across a syllable boundary rather than standing alone. Keep spelling variants and accented forms in mind, since a name written with diacritics still contains the same letters underneath. Order your final list by how obscure the match feels; the buried ones are worth more than the ones anyone can spot at a glance.
Get a hint
Start where countries wear long, ceremonial names made of two halves, since that construction is the most visible place the three letters turn up in plain sight.
A little more
Once those are exhausted, stop reading for whole words and start reading for letters, because plenty of entries hide the sequence across a syllable break or inside a geographical suffix.
One step further
Finish by sweeping the short one-word names too, especially the ones that tuck the sequence near the opening or the closing letters, the two spots the eye skips fastest.
Reveal answers 22
- Solomon IslandsOne in a Krillion100points
- Marshall IslandsDeep Cut85points
- RwandaDeep Cut85points
- AndorraRare60points
- Antigua and BarbudaRare60points
- Bosnia and HerzegovinaRare60points
- Northern IrelandRare60points
- Saint Kitts and NevisRare60points
- Saint Vincent and the GrenadinesRare60points
- São Tomé and PríncipeRare60points
- Trinidad and TobagoRare60points
- UgandaRare60points
- EnglandSchooler30points
- NetherlandsSchooler30points
- New ZealandSchooler30points
- ScotlandSchooler30points
- ThailandSchooler30points
- FinlandPlankton10points
- IcelandPlankton10points
- IrelandPlankton10points
- PolandPlankton10points
- SwitzerlandPlankton10points
Why these answers count
The spread across the reveal is really a story about visibility. Every answer where the three letters sit in plain sight as a separate word came back at the base rate of 60: Antigua and Barbuda, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Trinidad and Tobago, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, Saint Kitts and Nevis and São Tomé and Príncipe all landed there, and so did Northern Ireland. Andorra and Uganda, where the sequence is jammed into a short single word rather than spread across a compound, also settled at 60. The panel clearly reached for the compound names first and stopped. The premium went to matches you have to hunt for: Rwanda and Marshall Islands at 85, and Solomon Islands alone at 100, all cases where the letters are buried inside a longer word and easy to read past. Fewer players think of them, so the scoring rewards them. With twelve of twenty-two answers clearing 60, the middle of the board was crowded and only the genuinely obscure picks separated anyone.