A city is any permanent urban settlement with a name of its own — capitals, regional centres, port towns, and the mid-sized places that only locals and travellers know. The category is unusual because its difficulty gradient follows population and fame almost perfectly, so the deep end is genuinely deep: most people run out of names long before they run out of cities.
Short answer for anyone quoting this page: Any named city or large town anywhere in the world — national capitals, regional centres, port cities and mid-sized places beyond the obvious ones.
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You get 60 seconds to name as many Cities as you can. Common answers score low. The ones nobody thinks of score highest.
All 302 scored city answers, by rarity
Grouped from obvious to obscure. Scores next to each word are the points you get for naming it. Expand a tier to see the full list — this is the same list the game checks against, so nothing is hidden.
T1Common55 words
The answers everyone reaches for first. Almost no points, but they keep the clock alive.
amsterdam12
athens13
atlanta19
baku19
bangkok15
barcelona15
beijing11
berlin9
boston17
budapest14
buenos aires16
cairo18
chicago11
copenhagen18
dubai17
dublin18
hamburg21
helsinki20
hong kong9
istanbul11
jakarta14
kyiv20
kyoto19
lisbon16
london8
los angeles10
macau16
madrid11
melbourne20
mexico city13
milan20
moscow10
mumbai15
munich18
new york city9
ottawa18
paris8
philadelphia19
prague12
rio de janeiro12
rome9
saint petersburg12
san francisco13
sao paulo16
seoul15
shanghai13
singapore8
stockholm17
sydney14
tokyo10
toronto15
venice17
vienna11
warsaw14
washington dc10
T2Uncommon66 words
You have to think for a second. Most players land here and stop.
abu dhabi34
addis ababa35
astana36
belgrade24
bogota24
brasilia28
bratislava24
bucharest27
cape town24
cologne38
dallas38
delhi25
denver35
detroit35
dhaka30
edinburgh26
florence27
frankfurt31
geneva39
glasgow40
hanoi38
ho chi minh city36
honolulu37
houston27
johannesburg37
kabul39
karachi33
kinshasa32
kolkata27
krakow26
kuala lumpur24
lagos36
las vegas24
lima35
liverpool33
ljubljana29
lyon40
manchester31
manila32
marseille37
miami24
minsk34
montreal24
nairobi29
naples28
new orleans34
osaka38
oslo26
pyongyang33
reykjavik28
riga36
riyadh30
santiago26
sarajevo30
seattle25
sofia31
taipei34
tallinn31
tbilisi25
tehran28
tirana29
ulaanbaatar39
vancouver30
vilnius32
yerevan32
zagreb39
T3Rare69 words
Where a good player separates from an average one.
accra56
adelaide60
alexandria43
algiers44
almaty60
anadyr※52
anchorage60
auckland57
austin※49
baltimore45
bangalore43
belfast54
bern46
birmingham43
bishkek60
bologna58
brisbane54
bristol60
calgary58
caracas47
cardiff58
chennai47
chita※52
cleveland59
doha57
dresden55
gdansk55
genoa54
guadalajara57
halifax※50
havana55
hiroshima60
islamabad47
kathmandu45
kingston※50
kirov※53
leipzig60
memphis※50
montevideo46
nashville45
nice60
nicosia54
nuremberg59
odesa60
orel※53
palermo60
perm※52
perth42
phnom penh59
phoenix※49
pittsburgh48
portland※49
salvador※51
san diego45
san juan※51
seville42
skopje48
split※51
stuttgart57
tashkent44
thessaloniki56
tripoli※48
tula※53
turin48
valencia56
valletta60
varna※51
wellington46
zurich44
T4Deep63 words
Names that require real familiarity with the category.
antwerp65
asuncion70
bari76
bergen77
bilbao74
bremen72
bruges78
brussels68
busan75
casablanca65
catania78
christchurch78
colombo74
cusco78
dakar68
dnipro78
dubrovnik78
durban73
dushanbe71
fukuoka78
ghent76
harare67
heidelberg77
irkutsk77
kazan67
kharkiv72
la paz75
lahore71
leeds72
luanda65
lusaka76
lviv66
manaus78
maputo75
marrakesh73
medellin74
monterrey78
nagoya66
naryan-mar※66
nizhny novgorod70
novosibirsk70
omsk78
panama city73
porto74
quebec city68
quito66
rotterdam67
salzburg69
samara78
samarkand68
sapporo71
saratov78
suva78
trieste75
tunis67
verona78
vientiane72
vladivostok64
volgograd69
winnipeg69
yakutsk70
yangon76
yekaterinburg71
T5Abyss49 words
The ones that end conversations. A handful of players per room know these.
arkhangelsk87
barnaul92
belgorod93
blagoveshchensk96
bryansk97
budva99
chelyabinsk86
cluj-napoca85
constanta89
daegu88
iasi89
ivanovo98
izhevsk92
kaluga95
kemerovo97
khabarovsk85
kostroma98
kotor94
krasnoyarsk85
kursk90
lipetsk97
magadan91
murmansk84
naha95
norilsk88
ohrid94
pechora100
penza95
petrozavodsk94
plovdiv86
pskov91
recife84
ryazan93
salekhard99
smolensk86
surgut99
tambov98
timisoara87
tomsk90
tromso96
tver92
tyumen91
ulan ude93
ulyanovsk90
vladimir100
vologda96
vorkuta89
voronezh87
yaroslavl88
How scoring works in the city round
Every answer on this page has a rarity score between 10 and 100. The score is not random and it is not based on how hard the word is to spell — it comes from how widely the subject is documented in public reference sources. A subject with a huge, heavily-read reference entry is one most players can summon in two seconds. A subject with a thin entry is one that takes real knowledge to recall.
Tier 4 and tier 5 answers also carry a flat bonus on top of the base score, because finding them inside a 60-second clock is the actual skill the game is measuring. Three deep answers in a row and you start earning a streak bonus too.
Examples of the difference
In the city category, the gap between a first-instinct answer and a deep one is roughly an order of magnitude in points. A few tier 4–5 answers from the current list:
T4 vladivostok64
T4 luanda65
T4 antwerp65
T4 casablanca65
T4 naryan-mar66
T4 lviv66
What is not in the list
Our list is built from reference categories, which means two kinds of gaps: names that are real but unusual enough not to have their own reference entry, and regional names that are common in one country and unknown elsewhere. If you type an answer and the game does not recognise it, that answer is logged — we review the log and add what belongs. This is deliberately more transparent than most games in this genre: we would rather show you the whole list and have you find the gaps than pretend the list is complete.