Krillion Recorded answers
60 recorded answers
How to approach it
Work the map systematically instead of free-associating. Take one region at a time — North and West Africa, the Gulf and the Indian Ocean rim, South and Southeast Asia, the Pacific, the Caribbean and the Americas — and for each, run through the sovereign states you can name, asking whether any Iberian power ever held territory, a fort, a trading post or a claim there. Coastal forts, brief occupations and disputed island claims all count, so do not filter them out as minor. Then rank your candidates by how obscure the link feels: obvious choices are shared by thousands of players and pay little, while a surprising but defensible pick is what the scoring rewards. Check that your pick is a sovereign state, then submit the least obvious name you can justify.
Get a hint
Start with the whole map rather than one continent: the two Iberian crowns left marks in Africa, Asia, the Americas and the Pacific, so any region is a legitimate hunting ground.
A little more
Next, widen past the obvious former colonies everyone learns about and include places where the connection was short, indirect or administrative rather than a full settlement project.
One step further
For the highest-value picks, hunt for sovereign states whose Iberian episode was brief, contested or limited to a claim rather than lasting rule; the harder the link is to recall, the rarer the answer.
Reveal answers 60
- HondurasSchooler30points
- NicaraguaSchooler30points
- PanamaSchooler30points
- ParaguaySchooler30points
- PeruSchooler30points
- PhilippinesSchooler30points
- UruguaySchooler30points
- VenezuelaSchooler30points
- BrazilPlankton10points
- MexicoPlankton10points
Why these answers count
Points here measure how few other players gave the same answer, not how historically important the colony was. Canada at 100 points is the clearest illustration: an Iberian foothold there is so counterintuitive that whoever named it stood alone at the top. Just below, the 85-point band rewards solid but unglamorous knowledge — Algeria and Bahrain, for instance, both scored 85 because the connection is real yet almost never the first example anyone reaches for. The crowded 60-point tier is where the famous cases live: Angola, Haiti or the United States are correct, easy to justify and therefore shared by many players, which is precisely what flattens their value. In practice that means a defensible choice that most people would not think of beats a textbook one every time. Aim off the beaten track, verify the pick is a sovereign state, and do not talk yourself out of a surprising answer just because it feels unlikely.