Name an island nation

The answers, by rarity

How the crowd plays it

Ask a room of players this question and the first shout is "Japan". The ones who fancy themselves sharper go for "Madagascar" — which is precisely why it only scores 15: in Noillirk, feeling obscure is the most common feeling there is.

Real depth starts at "Malta" (Deep Cut, 85) — an answer you have to actually know, not just prefer. And at the bottom of the ladder sits "Nauru", the designated One in a Noillirk: the single answer the bank's research says a room produces once.

Playing this prompt backwards

When this question surfaces in a dive, your 25 seconds are best spent in reverse: first, name the Plankton answer silently and let it go; second, refuse the Too Clever answer unless the clock is dying; third, search your second page — the runner-up, the older one, the one from the smaller place. In geography, that means remembering that 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.

This prompt appears in the daily rotation, in Unlimited mode and — drilled on its own category — in the Geography pack. Its full answer bank is also published whenever its day closes, in the archive.