Prompt 1 of 7
Name a city in California
563 accepted answers across 5 rarity tiers.
100 ptsOne in a Krillion2 answers
The rarest possible answer — almost no player finds it.
- Calexico— California plus Mexico on the border; Mexicali mirrors it across the line.
- Rough and Ready
85 ptsDeep Cut483 answers
Genuinely obscure. Most players never think of it.
- Adelanto
- Agoura Hills
- Alameda
- Alamo
- Albany
- Alhambra
- Aliso Viejo
- Alpine
- Alturas
- Amador City
- American Canyon
- Anderson
- Angels Camp
- Antelope
- Antioch
- Apple Valley
- Arcadia
- Arcata
- Arden-Arcade
- Arroyo Grande
- Artesia
- Arvin
- Atascadero
- Atherton
- Atwater
- Auburn
- Avalon
- Avenal
- Azusa
- Baldwin Park
- Banning
- Barstow— Halfway stop on the I-15 crawl to Vegas.
- Bay Point
- Beaumont
- Bell
- Bell Gardens
- Bellflower
- Belmont
- Belvedere
- Benicia
- Big Bear City
- Biggs
- Bishop
- Bloomington
- Blue Lake
- Blythe
- Bodega Bay
- Borrego Springs— Unincorporated desert town inside Anza-Borrego.
- Bradbury
- Brawley
- Brea
- Brentwood
- Brisbane
- Buellton
- Buena Park
- Burlingame
- California City
- Calimesa
- Calipatria
- Calistoga
- Camarillo
- Campbell
- Canoga Park
- Canyon Lake
- Capitola
- Carmichael
- Carpinteria
- Carson
- Castro Valley— Largest unincorporated place in the Bay Area.
- Cathedral City
- Ceres
- Cerritos
- Chatsworth
- Chino
- Chino Hills
- Chowchilla
- Citrus Heights
- Claremont
- Clayton
- Clearlake
- Cloverdale
- Clovis
- Coalinga
- Colfax
- Colma
- Colton
- Colusa
- Commerce
- Concord
- Corcoran
- Corning
- Corte Madera
- Costa Mesa
- Cotati
- Covina
- Crescent City
- Cudahy
- Cypress
- Daly City
- Dana Point
- Danville
- Del Mar
- Del Rey Oaks
- Delano
- Desert Hot Springs
- Diamond Bar
- Dinuba
- Dixon
- Dorris
- Dos Palos
- Downey
- Duarte
- Dublin
- Dunsmuir
- East Niles
- East Palo Alto
- Eastern Goleta Valley
- Eastvale
- El Cajon
- El Centro
- El Cerrito
- El Dorado Hills
- El Monte
- El Segundo
- Elk Grove
- Emeryville
- Encinitas
- Encino
- Escalon
- Escondido
- Etna
- Exeter
- Fair Oaks
- Fairfax
- Fairfield
- Fallbrook
- Farmersville
- Ferndale
- Fillmore
- Firebaugh
- Florence-Graham
- Florin
- Fontana
- Foothill Farms
- Fort Bragg
- Fort Jones
- Fortuna
- Foster City
- Fountain Valley
- Fowler
- French Valley
- Fullerton
- Galt
- Garden Grove
- Gardena
- Gilroy
- Glendora
- Goleta
- Gonzales
- Granada Hills
- Grand Terrace
- Grass Valley
- Greenfield
- Gridley
- Grover Beach
- Guadalupe
- Gustine
- Hacienda Heights
- Half Moon Bay
- Hanford
- Harbor City
- Hawaiian Gardens
- Hawthorne
- Hayward
- Healdsburg
- Hemet
- Hercules
- Hermosa Beach
- Hesperia
- Hidden Hills
- Highland
- Hillsborough
- Hollister
- Holtville
- Hughson
- Huntington Park
- Huron
- Imperial
- Imperial Beach
- Indian Wells
- Indio
- Industry
- Ione
- Irwindale
- Isla Vista— Unincorporated college town beside UC Santa Barbara.
- Isleton
- Jackson
- Julian— Unincorporated mountain town famous for apple pie.
- Jurupa Valley
- Kensington
- Kerman
- King City
- Kingsburg
- La Cañada Flintridge
- La Habra
- La Habra Heights
- La Mesa
- La Mirada
- La Palma
- La Presa
- La Puente
- La Quinta
- La Verne
- Ladera Ranch
- Lafayette
- Laguna Hills
- Laguna Niguel
- Laguna Woods
- Lake Arrowhead— Unincorporated resort town in the San Bernardino Mountains.
- Lake Elsinore
- Lake Forest
- Lakeport
- Lakeside
- Lakewood
- Lancaster
- Larkspur
- Lathrop
- Lawndale
- Lemon Grove
- Lemoore
- Lincoln
- Lindsay
- Live Oak
- Livermore
- Livingston
- Lodi— Stuck in it again, per CCR.
- Loma Linda
- Lomita
- Lompoc
- Loomis
- Los Alamitos
- Los Altos
- Los Altos Hills
- Los Banos
- Los Gatos
- Loyalton
- Lynwood
- Madera
- Manteca
- Maricopa
- Marina
- Marina del Rey— Largest man-made small-craft harbor in North America, unincorporated.
- Martinez
- Marysville
- Maywood
- McFarland
- Mendocino— Headland village that played Maine in Murder, She Wrote.
- Mendota
- Menifee
- Menlo Park
- Merced
- Mill Valley
- Millbrae
- Milpitas
- Mission Viejo
- Monrovia
- Montague
- Montclair
- Monte Sereno
- Montebello
- Monterey Park
- Moorpark
- Moraga
- Moreno Valley
- Morgan Hill
- Morro Bay
- Mount Shasta
- Mountain House
- Murrieta
- National City
- Needles
- Nevada City
- Newark
- Newman
- Norco
- North Highlands
- North Hollywood— Valley district that shares nothing but a name with Hollywood.
- North Tustin
- Northridge
- Norwalk
- Novato
- Oakdale
- Oakley
- Oildale
- Ojai
- Olympic Valley— Renamed from Squaw Valley in 2021; 1960 Winter Olympics site.
- Orange
- Orange Cove
- Orangevale
- Orcutt
- Orinda
- Orland
- Oroville
- Pacific Grove
- Pacific Palisades
- Pacifica
- Pacoima
- Palm Desert
- Palmdale
- Palos Verdes Estates
- Paradise
- Paramount
- Parlier
- Paso Robles
- Patterson
- Perris
- Petaluma
- Pico Rivera
- Piedmont
- Pinole
- Pismo Beach
- Pittsburg
- Placentia
- Placerville
- Playa del Rey
- Playa Vista
- Pleasant Hill
- Pleasanton
- Plymouth
- Point Arena
- Pomona
- Port Hueneme
- Porterville
- Portola
- Portola Valley
- Poway
- Ramona
- Rancho Cordova
- Rancho Mirage
- Rancho Palos Verdes
- Rancho Santa Margarita
- Red Bluff
- Redlands
- Redwood City
- Reedley
- Reseda
- Rialto
- Richmond
- Ridgecrest
- Rio Dell
- Rio Vista
- Ripon
- Riverbank
- Rocklin
- Rohnert Park
- Rolling Hills
- Rolling Hills Estates
- Rosemead
- Roseville
- Ross
- Rowland Heights
- Salinas
- San Anselmo
- San Bruno
- San Carlos
- San Clemente
- San Dimas
- San Fernando
- San Gabriel
- San Jacinto
- San Joaquin
- San Juan Bautista
- San Juan Capistrano
- San Leandro
- San Lorenzo
- San Marcos
- San Marino
- San Mateo
- San Pablo
- San Pedro
- San Rafael
- San Ramon
- San Simeon— Hearst Castle's village on the coast road.
- Sand City
- Sanger
- Santa Fe Springs
- Santa Maria
- Santa Paula
- Santee
- Saratoga
- Scotts Valley
- Sea Ranch
- Seal Beach
- Seaside
- Sebastopol
- Selma
- Shafter
- Shasta Lake
- Sherman Oaks
- Sierra Madre
- Signal Hill
- Solana Beach
- Soledad
- Solvang
- Sonora
- South el Monte
- South Gate
- South Pasadena
- South San Francisco
- South Whittier
- Spring Valley
- St. Helena
- Stanford— University campus that is its own census-designated place.
- Stanton
- Stinson Beach
- Studio City
- Suisun City
- Sunland-Tujunga
- Sunnyvale
- Susanville
- Sutter Creek
- Taft
- Tahoe City— Sits where the Truckee River leaves Lake Tahoe.
- Tarzana
- Tehachapi
- Tehama
- Temecula
- Temescal Valley
- Temple City
- Tiburon
- Topanga
- Torrance
- Tracy
- Trinidad
- Truckee
- Tulare
- Tulelake
- Turlock
- Tustin
- Twentynine Palms
- Ukiah
- Union City
- Upland
- Vacaville
- Vallejo
- Van Nuys— San Fernando Valley district with its own postmark.
- Vernon
- Victorville
- Villa Park
- Vineyard
- Visalia
- Vista
- Walnut
- Walnut Creek
- Wasco
- Waterford
- Watsonville
- West Covina
- West Sacramento
- West Whittier-Los Nietos
- Westlake Village
- Westminster
- Westmont
- Westmorland
- Wheatland
- Whittier
- Wildomar
- Williams
- Willits
- Willows
- Wilmington
- Windsor
- Winters
- Woodlake
- Woodland
- Woodland Hills
- Woodside
- Yorba Linda
- Yountville
- Yreka
- Yuba City
- Yucaipa
- Yucca Valley
60 ptsRare59 answers
Uncommon — only a minority of players land here.
- Altadena
- Bakersfield
- Big Bear Lake
- Big Sur— Ninety miles of coast with no town at its center.
- Burbank
- Calabasas
- Carlsbad
- Carmel-by-the-Sea
- Chico
- Chula Vista
- Coachella
- Compton
- Corona
- Coronado
- Culver City
- Cupertino
- Davis
- East los Angeles— Unincorporated, and bigger than most cities on this list.
- Eureka
- Folsom
- Fremont
- Glendale
- Huntington Beach
- Inglewood
- Irvine
- Joshua Tree— Unincorporated desert crossroads named for the trees.
- La Jolla— Part of San Diego, but the postmark says La Jolla.
- Laguna Beach
- Mammoth Lakes
- Manhattan Beach
- Modesto
- Monterey
- Mountain View
- Newport Beach
- Oceanside
- Ontario
- Oxnard
- Palo Alto
- Pebble Beach— Gated golf community, legally Del Monte Forest.
- Rancho Cucamonga
- Redding
- Redondo Beach
- Riverside
- San Bernardino
- San Luis Obispo
- Santa Ana
- Santa Clara
- Santa Clarita
- Santa Cruz
- Santa Rosa
- Sausalito
- Simi Valley
- Sonoma
- Stockton
- Thousand Oaks
- Venice— Abbot Kinney dug its canals in 1905 to copy Italy.
- Ventura
- Weed
- West Hollywood
30 ptsSchooler14 answers
A solid, middling pick shared with plenty of other players.
- Anaheim
- Berkeley
- Beverly Hills
- Fresno
- Hollywood— Los Angeles neighborhood on paper, a city in common speech.
- Long Beach
- Malibu
- Napa
- Oakland
- Palm Springs
- Pasadena
- Santa Barbara
- Santa Monica
- South Lake Tahoe
10 ptsPlankton5 answers
The most common answer on the board.
- Los Angeles
- Sacramento
- San Diego
- San Francisco
- San Jose