Name a river system more than 3,000 km long: rare answers
“Name a river system more than 3,000 km long” has 28 accepted answers here, and 7 of them (25%) are rare enough for the two deepest tiers. Nile, Mississippi and Amazon are the Surface answers almost everyone gives.
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- Accepted answers
- 28
- Category
- Geography
- Deep answers (85–100 pts)
- 7 (25%)
- Alternate spellings accepted
- 21 answers
- First letters
- 15 different; M is the most common (5)
The rarest answers
This list has no Abyssal tier, so the Midnight Zone is as deep as it goes: Yenisei, Ob, Madeira and Salween and 3 more, worth 85 points each.
🦑 Midnight Zone answers (85 points)
Yenisei, Ob, Madeira, Salween, Sao Francisco, Tocantins, Purus
🐠 Twilight Zone answers (60 points)
St. Lawrence, Parana, Amur, Murray, Yukon, Lena, Syr Darya, Mackenzie, Euphrates
🐟 Sunlit Zone answers (30 points)
Indus, Yangtze, Yellow River, Brahmaputra, Volga, Congo, Mekong, Niger, Rio Grande
🌊 Surface answers (10 points)
Nile, Mississippi, Amazon
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.
- Yenisei: Yenisey, Angara
- Ob: Irtysh, Ob-Irtysh
- Madeira: Mamore
- Salween: Nu Jiang, Thanlwin
- Tocantins: Araguaia
- St. Lawrence: Saint Lawrence
- Parana: Rio de la Plata, River Plate
- Amur: Heilong Jiang, Argun
- Murray: Darling, Murray-Darling
- Syr Darya: Naryn
- Mackenzie: Peace River
- Euphrates: Shatt al-Arab
And 9 more answers with alternate spellings.
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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