About the Geography water

Geography is Noillirk's most reliable deep water. Everyone can name France or Brazil; almost nobody reaches for landlocked African republics, tributaries of the Danube, or capitals that share a name with their country. The prompt bank rewards exactly that gap between the map in your head and the map as it actually is. That is why geography is the game's great teacher: its ladders are visible. You can literally see the crowd stacked at Paris while Vaduz waits at the bottom of the page — and once you have watched one map empty out from the top, you start reading every category the same way.

The mirror angle

Think of the atlas backwards: instead of asking 'what do I know?', ask 'what does everyone else know?' — then sail past it. The first three countries anyone names are Plankton. The ones you have to picture on a map before you can spell them are where the depth is.

Example ladders

Three real shapes from this pack's bank — the crowd's answer, and the answer that leaves the crowd at the surface:

Geography tips

• Keep a private list of 'second-page' countries: the ones that appear in quizzes as wrong answers.
• Capitals of small states (Vaduz, San Marino, Andorra la Vella) are Deep Cut machines.
• Rivers, deserts and mountain ranges reward anyone who has stared at a physical map.
• Drill the microstates and island nations as a set — they recur across prompts and nobody else stocks them.

Every geography prompt in the bank

38 prompts — each with its own rarity ladder published:

• Name a country with the letter Z in its name — gem: Bosnia and Herzegovina
• Name a country that starts with the letter M — gem: Montenegro
• Name a country in South America — gem: Suriname
• Name an island nation — gem: Nauru
• Name a capital city in Europe — gem: Vaduz
• Name a country that borders France — gem: Monaco
• Name a desert in the world — gem: Atacama Desert
• Name a famous mountain range — gem: Atlas Mountains
• Name a river in Africa — gem: Limpopo River
• Name a country in Southeast Asia — gem: Brunei
• Name a city on the Mediterranean Sea — gem: Valletta
• Name a country with over 200 million people — gem: Nigeria
• Name a capital city in Asia — gem: Thimphu
• Name a country that starts and ends with the letter A — gem: Antigua and Barbuda
• Name a country in the Caribbean — gem: Dominica
• Name a famous volcano — gem: Mount Nyiragongo
• Name a city known for its canals — gem: Giethoorn
• Name a country in the Middle East — gem: Oman
• Name a US state that touches an ocean — gem: Maine
• Name a famous waterfall — gem: Kaieteur Falls
• Name a country in Northern Europe — gem: Estonia
• Name a capital city in South America — gem: Paramaribo
• Name a landlocked country — gem: Lesotho
• Name a famous strait in the world — gem: Torres Strait
• Name a country with coasts on two oceans — gem: South Africa
• Name a city that hosted the Olympics — gem: Cortina d'Ampezzo
• Name a country in Oceania — gem: Nauru
• Name a famous bay in the world — gem: Bay of Kotor
• Name a capital city in Africa — gem: Mbabane
• Name a country with a red and white flag — gem: Tonga
• Name a country in Central America — gem: Belize
• Name a famous glacier — gem: Jostedalsbreen
• Name a city built on seven hills — gem: Kampala
• Name a country that drives on the left — gem: Eswatini
• Name a major river in Asia — gem: Irrawaddy River
• Name a country with 'Democratic' in its official name — gem: São Tomé and Príncipe
• Name a famous island in the Pacific Ocean — gem: Palau
• Name a country that borders only one other country — gem: Lesotho