Name a country in Africa: rare answers

We accept 54 answers to “Name a country in Africa” in our Krillion practice game. Most players reach for South Africa, Egypt and Nigeria, which keeps them near the surface. Deep cuts such as Togo, Gabon and Lesotho score up to 100 points.

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Accepted answers: 54
Category: Geography
Deep answers (85–100 pts): 20 (37%)
Alternate spellings accepted: 7 answers
First letters: 16 different; S is the most common (8)

🐙 Abyssal: 8 answers (15%), 100 pts each
🦑 Midnight Zone: 12 answers (22%), 85 pts each
🐠 Twilight Zone: 16 answers (30%), 60 pts each
🐟 Sunlit Zone: 14 answers (26%), 30 pts each
🌊 Surface: 4 answers (7%), 10 pts each

The rarest answers

8 answers are Abyssal here, the ones we expect the fewest players to think of, including Togo, Gabon, Lesotho and Republic of the Congo. Each is worth 100 points, ten times a Surface answer.

🐙 Abyssal answers (100 points)

Togo, Gabon, Lesotho, Republic of the Congo, Malawi, Guinea-Bissau, Comoros, Sao Tome and Principe

🦑 Midnight Zone answers (85 points)

Niger, Zambia, Mozambique, South Sudan, Eswatini, Burundi, Sierra Leone, Djibouti, Central African Republic, Gambia, Equatorial Guinea, Guinea

🐠 Twilight Zone answers (60 points)

Angola, Cape Verde, Mauritius, Uganda, Burkina Faso, Senegal, Ivory Coast, Cameroon, Botswana, Mauritania, Rwanda, Mali, Liberia, Seychelles, Chad, Benin

🐟 Sunlit Zone answers (30 points)

Ethiopia, Algeria, DR Congo, Ghana, Kenya, Madagascar, Sudan, Tanzania, Somalia, Zimbabwe, Tunisia, Libya, Eritrea, Namibia

🌊 Surface answers (10 points)

South Africa, Egypt, Nigeria, Morocco

Other spellings we accept

Type any of these and the game counts it as the same answer. Small typos are forgiven on longer answers too.

Republic of the Congo: Congo-Brazzaville, Republic of Congo
Sao Tome and Principe: Sao Tome
Eswatini: Swaziland
Central African Republic: CAR
Cape Verde: Cabo Verde
Ivory Coast: Cote d'Ivoire
DR Congo: Democratic Republic of the Congo, DRC, Congo-Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of Congo, Zaire

Rarity tiers are our own estimate of how few people would think of each answer. For strategy, read how to find One in a Krillion answers.

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