Krillion Answers for August 6, 2026

The rarest possible answer — almost no player finds it.

• Bloemfontein— South Africa's judicial capital, the third seat everyone forgets alongside Pretoria and Cape Town.

Genuinely obscure. Most players never think of it.

• Asmara
• Bangui
• Banjul
• Bissau
• Bujumbura
• Djibouti City
• Dodoma— Tanzania's real capital. Dar es Salaam gets all the credit.
• Gitega— Burundi moved its political capital here in 2019. Almost nobody noticed.
• Libreville
• Lobamba— Eswatini's royal and legislative capital, next to administrative Mbabane.
• Malabo
• Maseru
• Mbabane
• Moroni
• Nouakchott
• Port Louis
• Porto-Novo
• Praia
• Sao Tome
• Victoria— Seychelles' capital, one of the smallest in the world.
• Yamoussoukro

Uncommon — only a minority of players land here.

• Antananarivo
• Bamako
• Brazzaville
• Conakry
• Freetown
• Gaborone
• Harare
• Juba
• Kigali
• Lilongwe
• Lome
• Luanda
• Lusaka
• Maputo
• Mogadishu
• Monrovia
• Ndjamena
• Niamey
• Windhoek
• Yaounde

A solid, middling pick shared with plenty of other players.

• Abuja
• Accra
• Addis Ababa
• Algiers
• Dakar
• Kampala
• Khartoum
• Kinshasa
• Pretoria
• Rabat
• Tripoli
• Tunis

An overthought pick that scores below the middle of the board.

• Abidjan— Ivory Coast's biggest city, but the official capital is Yamoussoukro.
• Cotonou— Benin's seat of government, but the constitutional capital is Porto-Novo.
• Ouagadougou— The fun-to-say pick. Burkina Faso's capital, and yes, everyone tries it.

The most common answer on the board.

• Cairo
• Cape Town— One of three South African capitals. Close enough for the blurt crowd.
• Nairobi

The rarest possible answer — almost no player finds it.

• Torrent duck— Nests behind Andean waterfalls and swims in whitewater rapids. Peak waterfowl.

Genuinely obscure. Most players never think of it.

• American black duck
• Bar-headed goose— Migrates over the Himalayas, higher than most helicopters can fly.
• Bewick's swan
• Cackling goose
• Garganey
• Harlequin duck
• Long-tailed duck
• Nene
• Pochard
• Ruddy duck
• Scoter
• Shelduck
• Smew
• Swan goose
• Tufted duck
• Tundra swan
• Whistling duck
• White-fronted goose
• Whooper swan

Uncommon — only a minority of players land here.

• Barnacle goose
• Brant
• Bufflehead
• Canvasback
• Coot
• Egyptian goose
• Eider
• Gadwall
• Goldeneye
• Grebe
• Greylag goose
• Loon
• Merganser
• Moorhen
• Pintail
• Redhead
• Scaup
• Shoveler
• Snow goose
• Trumpeter swan
• Wigeon

A solid, middling pick shared with plenty of other players.

• Muscovy duck
• Pekin duck
• Teal
• Wood duck

An overthought pick that scores below the middle of the board.

• Black swan— The market-crash metaphor bird. Yes, it counts, and yes we saw it coming.
• Mandarin duck— The Instagram-famous pretty one. Everyone reaches for it.

The most common answer on the board.

• Canada goose
• Duck
• Goose
• Mallard
• Swan

The rarest possible answer — almost no player finds it.

• Escamoles— Ant larvae, sometimes called 'Mexican caviar.' The trench floor of the taqueria.

Genuinely obscure. Most players never think of it.

• Aguachile
• Albondigas
• Arroz con leche
• Cabrito
• Caldo de pollo
• Camarones a la diabla
• Cemita
• Chapulines— Toasted grasshoppers. Snackable and deeply legit.
• Chile en nogada
• Cochinita pibil
• Enfrijoladas
• Esquites
• Huarache
• Machaca
• Molletes
• Pambazo
• Queso fundido
• Sincronizada
• Tacos de canasta
• Tinga
• Tlayuda— The Oaxacan 'Mexican pizza.' Deep menu pull.

Uncommon — only a minority of players land here.

• Al pastor
• Barbacoa
• Carnitas
• Ceviche
• Chilaquiles
• Chile relleno
• Empanada
• Flautas
• Gordita
• Huevos rancheros
• Menudo
• Pico de gallo
• Pozole
• Refried beans
• Sope
• Taco salad
• Tortilla soup
• Tres leches

A solid, middling pick shared with plenty of other players.

• Carne asada
• Chimichanga
• Churros
• Fajitas
• Fish tacos
• Flan
• Salsa
• Tamale
• Taquitos
• Tortas
• Tostada

An overthought pick that scores below the middle of the board.

• Birria— The 2021 TikTok stew. Delicious, and completely predictable now.
• Elote— Mexican street corn. The foodie flex the whole school posts.
• Mole— 'Actually, real Mexican food is mole.' Yes, we know, chef.

The most common answer on the board.

• Burrito
• Enchilada
• Guacamole
• Nachos
• Quesadilla
• Taco

The rarest possible answer — almost no player finds it.

• The Coachman— Pinocchio's smiling child-snatcher who turns boys into donkeys. Never punished, never explained, the darkest Disney ever went.

Genuinely obscure. Most players never think of it.

• Alameda Slim
• Amos Slade
• AUTO
• Barbossa
• Big Bad Wolf
• Bill Cipher— Technically Disney XD, and the fandom will die on that hill.
• Bowler Hat Guy
• Charles Muntz
• Chick Hicks
• Commander Rourke
• Dr. Calico
• Duke of Weselton
• Edgar
• Ercole
• Ernesto de la Cruz
• Flintheart Glomgold
• Gantu
• Honest John
• Horned King
• King Magnifico
• Lucifer
• Madam Mim
• Madame Medusa
• Magica De Spell
• Man— Bambi's mother would like a word. The unseen hunter is the real villain.
• Miles Axlerod
• Monstro
• Morgana
• Namaari
• Negaduck
• Percival McLeach
• Pete
• Professor Callaghan
• Queen Narissa
• Ratigan
• Sabor
• Scroop
• Sheriff of Nottingham
• Si and Am
• Stinky Pete
• Stromboli
• Sykes
• Te Ka
• The Ringmaster
• Willie the Giant
• Zira

Uncommon — only a minority of players land here.

• Bellwether
• Clayton
• Davy Jones
• Dr. Doofenshmirtz
• Dr. Facilier
• Governor Ratcliffe
• Hopper
• Kaa
• King Candy
• Lady Tremaine
• Lotso
• Oogie Boogie
• Prince John
• Randall
• Shan Yu
• Shere Khan
• Sid
• Syndrome
• Tamatoa
• Yzma
• Zurg

A solid, middling pick shared with plenty of other players.

• Evil Queen
• Frollo
• Gaston
• Hades
• Mother Gothel
• Prince Hans
• Queen of Hearts

An overthought pick that scores below the middle of the board.

• Bruce— 'The shark is a villain, actually.' Cute. Everyone says it.
• Chernabog— The 'Night on Bald Mountain' demon. The animation-nerd flex, deployed on cue.

The most common answer on the board.

• Captain Hook
• Cruella de Vil
• Jafar
• Maleficent
• Scar
• Ursula

The rarest possible answer — almost no player finds it.

• Reuleaux triangle— A triangle of constant width that rolls as smoothly as a circle. Used to drill square holes.

Genuinely obscure. Most players never think of it.

• Annulus— The ring between two circles. The washer shape.
• Arrow
• Cardioid— The heart-shaped curve of light at the bottom of your coffee mug.
• Chevron
• Chiliagon— A thousand sides. Descartes' favorite thought experiment.
• Ellipsoid
• Frustum— A cone or pyramid with the top sliced off. The shape of a lampshade.
• Helix
• Hendecagon
• Heptadecagon— Gauss proved the 17-gon constructible at age 19 and wanted one on his tombstone.
• Hexagram
• Hyperboloid
• Icosagon
• Klein bottle— A bottle whose inside is its outside. Good luck filling it.
• Lemniscate— The infinity symbol, when it dresses up for math class.
• Mobius strip— One side, one edge, no way out.
• Myriagon— Ten thousand sides, indistinguishable from a circle to the eye.
• Paraboloid
• Rhombicosidodecahedron— An Archimedean solid with 62 faces. A mouthful and a half.
• Rhomboid
• Sector
• Spiral
• Squircle— Halfway between square and circle — the app-icon shape in your pocket.
• Teardrop
• Tridecagon
• Vesica piscis

Uncommon — only a minority of players land here.

• Cross
• Cuboid
• Decagon
• Dodecagon
• Dodecahedron
• Ellipse
• Equilateral triangle
• Hemisphere
• Heptagon
• Icosahedron
• Isosceles triangle
• Kite
• Nonagon
• Octahedron
• Parallelogram
• Pentagram
• Polygon
• Prism
• Quadrilateral
• Right triangle
• Scalene triangle
• Semicircle
• Tetrahedron

A solid, middling pick shared with plenty of other players.

• Cone
• Crescent
• Cube
• Cylinder
• Diamond
• Heart
• Hexagon
• Octagon
• Oval
• Pentagon
• Pyramid
• Rhombus
• Sphere
• Trapezoid

An overthought pick that scores below the middle of the board.

• Torus— 'It's technically a donut.' The math-major flex arrives on schedule.

The most common answer on the board.

• Circle
• Rectangle
• Square
• Star
• Triangle

The rarest possible answer — almost no player finds it.

• Chile— Hosted in 1962, two years after the largest earthquake ever recorded flattened the country. 'Because we have nothing, we will do everything.'

Genuinely obscure. Most players never think of it.

• Sweden
• Switzerland

Uncommon — only a minority of players land here.

• Canada— Co-host in 2026, its first World Cup.
• Uruguay— Hosted and won the very first one in 1930.

A solid, middling pick shared with plenty of other players.

• Argentina
• England
• Italy
• Japan— Co-hosted 2002 with South Korea.
• Mexico— 1970, 1986, and co-host in 2026. Three-time home.
• Russia— 2018.
• South Africa— 2010. Vuvuzelas forever.
• South Korea
• Spain

An overthought pick that scores below the middle of the board.

• Qatar— 2022, the winter World Cup everyone still argues about. The school knew you'd say it.

The most common answer on the board.

• Brazil— 1950 and 2014. The plankton pick with the trophies to back it up.
• France
• Germany
• United States— 1994, and co-host in 2026. Blurt away.

The rarest possible answer — almost no player finds it.

• Enheduanna— A Sumerian priestess from 2300 BC, the earliest author of any kind known by name. The first poet on record.

Genuinely obscure. Most players never think of it.

• A.E. Housman
• Adrienne Rich
• Alexander Pope
• Alexander Pushkin
• Anna Akhmatova
• Anne Sexton
• Arthur Rimbaud
• Billy Collins
• Carl Sandburg
• Carol Ann Duffy
• Catullus
• Charles Baudelaire
• Christina Rossetti
• Derek Walcott
• Du Fu
• Edna St. Vincent Millay
• Edward Lear
• Elizabeth Bishop
• Federico Garcia Lorca
• Gerard Manley Hopkins
• Gwendolyn Brooks
• Hafiz
• Horace
• John Betjeman
• John Donne
• Joy Harjo
• Leonard Cohen— Published two poetry collections before he ever sang a note.
• Lewis Carroll
• Li Bai
• Louise Glück
• Marianne Moore
• Mary Oliver
• Mirza Ghalib
• Nikki Giovanni
• Ocean Vuong
• Octavio Paz
• Omar Khayyam
• Ovid
• Pam Ayres
• Petrarch
• Philip Larkin
• Rainer Maria Rilke
• Rita Dove
• Robert Lowell
• Sara Teasdale
• Seamus Heaney
• Spike Milligan
• Ted Hughes
• Thomas Hardy
• Victor Hugo— Yes, the Les Misérables guy. France shelves him under poetry first.
• Virgil
• W.H. Auden
• Wallace Stevens
• Warsan Shire
• William Carlos Williams
• Wisława Szymborska

Uncommon — only a minority of players land here.

• Alfred Tennyson
• Allen Ginsberg
• Charles Bukowski
• Dorothy Parker
• Dylan Thomas
• E.E. Cummings
• Elizabeth Barrett Browning
• Emily Bronte
• Ezra Pound
• Geoffrey Chaucer
• Goethe
• Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
• Khalil Gibran
• Matsuo Basho
• Ogden Nash
• Oscar Wilde
• Pablo Neruda
• Percy Shelley
• Rabindranath Tagore
• Ralph Waldo Emerson
• Robert Browning
• Robert Burns
• Rudyard Kipling
• Samuel Taylor Coleridge
• Sappho— The poet of Lesbos, most of whose work survives only in fragments.
• William Butler Yeats

A solid, middling pick shared with plenty of other players.

• Amanda Gorman
• Dante
• John Keats
• John Milton
• Langston Hughes
• Lord Byron
• Rupi Kaur
• Shel Silverstein
• Sylvia Plath
• T.S. Eliot
• Walt Whitman
• William Blake
• William Wordsworth

An overthought pick that scores below the middle of the board.

• Dr. Seuss— Rhymes, technically. The cheeky answer the school expected.
• Homer— 'The original poet.' Points for the epic energy, everyone gets there.
• Rumi— The Instagram-caption poet. Beautiful, and everybody's got him bookmarked.

The most common answer on the board.

• Edgar Allan Poe
• Emily Dickinson
• Maya Angelou
• Robert Frost
• William Shakespeare