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Solve the Secret Capital City

Unscramble the capital city names as they are revealed, concluding with the secret capital city.
Quiz by kiwirage
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Last updated: September 15, 2022
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First submittedDecember 2, 2014
Times taken124,109
Average score55.6%
Rating4.84
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Capital City
BENR
Bern
AILM
Lima
KIVY
Kyiv
EMOR
Rome
ACIOR
Cairo
ELOSU
Seoul
AACCR
Accra
AIPRS
Paris
INSTU
Tunis
AAILMN
Manila
BDILNU
Dublin
AEHNST
Athens
ADDIMR
Madrid
Scramble
Capital City
AEGPRU
Prague
DLNNOO
London
AEGILRS
Algiers
AAACCRS
Caracas
ABGKKNO
Bangkok
EHIIKLNS
Helsinki
AAEJORSV
Sarajevo
AABCENRR
Canberra
ABCEHRSTU
Bucharest
AEEJLMRSU
Jerusalem
AADEMMRST
Amsterdam
DEEIMNOOTV
Montevideo
ACEEGHNNOP
Copenhagen
SECRET CAPITAL CITY
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WINDHOEK
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Level 42
Jun 4, 2015
27/27 in 57 seconds! 4:03 left.
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Level 91
Aug 8, 2015
Loved it! Good fun!
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Level 77
Aug 9, 2015
The layout of the answer stats is really weird. The scrambles being shown are nowhere near in the same order as the correct answers.
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Level 62
Aug 9, 2015
Yes, that's a result of the 'pop-up' element to the design of the quiz. Each correct answer triggers the next pop-up clue. So, as an example, AILM is beside Bern in the answer stats because answering Bern correctly triggers the clue for Lima.
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Level 72
Aug 11, 2015
I love this quiz! It's really cool!
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Level 74
Aug 11, 2015
Nice quiz idea. Can we have some more please? Pretty please?!?!?!?
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Level 51
Sep 14, 2015
Fun format! I want more!
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Level 71
Sep 21, 2015
Neat quiz, good fun........ try my 'Mal's 20 most difficult capitals quiz'
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Level 57
Oct 22, 2015
It would be cool if there was one of these for countries too.
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Level 62
Mar 2, 2016
For the complete list of Solve-the-Secret quizzes, which includes country versions among a variety of other topics click here!
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Level 33
Jun 2, 2016
Hi kiwirage I think you are awesome and your quizzes too come check out my quizzes I have like two and I working on a new one
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Level 74
Oct 22, 2015
At the risk of courting controversy, Jerusalem isn't a capital city. Israel claims it as its capital, but that claim isn't recognised by a single country and not a single country has its embassy in Jerusalem.
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Level 82
Oct 22, 2015
It's recognized by Israel.

Also, the seat of government is in Jerusalem. Whether it's recognized to be there or not.

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Level 51
Oct 22, 2015
amsterdam is the capital of the netherlands and the queen and government are in the hague. doesn't make it the capital.
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Level 51
Oct 22, 2015
on that note, i had an israeli teacher that was convinced that the hague WAS the capital of the netherlands. i told her i was born there, i know my capital, and she said that me being born there doesn't mean it's the capital.
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Level 53
Oct 19, 2016
Well, that's truly funny.
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Level 65
Dec 15, 2018
hahah wow :)
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Level 82
Jan 14, 2019
Oh. Is that because, while The Netherlands has chosen The Hague as it's national capital, countries that are not the Netherlands refuse to acknowledge that The Hague is the capital of the Netherlands? If the above is true, then you just made an excellent point!
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Level 89
Oct 22, 2015
So by that logic the location of the capital city is decided by other countries? So if every other country in the world decided that Bakersfield is the capital of the USA then that would mean that it's not Washington DC anymore? As long as Israel claims Jerusalem as its capital (which you agree it does), then Jerusalem is the capital.
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Level 74
Mar 9, 2016
Or, to put it a more analogous way - if Djibouti claimed that Washington DC was its capital, would that mean that the capital of Djibouti was Washington DC?
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Level 71
Apr 9, 2016
I have a good idea........., how about everyone can individually decide what the capital of a country is (no matter what that country decides) that way we can all get the capitals of the world quiz right every time.
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Level 53
Oct 19, 2016
Wow, I didn't know that Washington D.C. was built within Djibouti territory. That's awesome!
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Level 82
May 16, 2017
kleiner I think that's the point he was trying to make. The reason some other countries don't recognize Jerusalem as the capital of Israel is that they dispute that Jerusalem is Israeli territory. The rest just don't want to piss off the former countries by their offensive acceptance of reality.
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Level 71
May 15, 2022
Nah, I say Hell is the capital city of the USA.

And while we're at it, I claim F*cking to be the capital of Austria.

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Level 59
Oct 22, 2015
Ahhh, I was so close! I only had 3 scrambles to finish, but turns out it wouldn't have mattered because I've never heard of Windhoek in my entire life. Never would've gotten that!
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Level 71
Feb 24, 2017
Irish41 ....... you have a jetpunk score of 63, and you have never heard of Windhoek in your entire life!...... have you not been doing Capital City quizzes in your entire jetpunk life?
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Level 58
May 16, 2017
That person's comment was posted over a year and a half ago, so I'm sure they probably had a low rank at the time and had not completed many quizzes.
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Level 45
Jun 1, 2020
That person still has a JetPunk score of 63 now.....
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Level 65
Jun 2, 2020
Yes and by now he hás heard of windhoek. Full circle..
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Level 78
Oct 22, 2015
I am not usually susceptible to conspiracy theories, but there seems to be one among quizmakers to convince us all that Jerusalem is the capital, presumably of Israel.
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Level 47
Oct 23, 2015
Jerusalem is not the capital of israel, Tel Aviv is.
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Level 60
Nov 13, 2015
go home
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Level 71
Apr 9, 2016
Where's Elmer Fudd when you need him?
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Level 67
Jun 1, 2020
The PETA folks got hold of him and he hasn't been seen in weeks.
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Level 38
Jul 20, 2017
Jerusalem is the capital of Jerusalem though.
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Level 45
Jun 1, 2020
Jerusalem is the capital of Israel and that is all there is to it.
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Level 45
Jul 14, 2023
No
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Level 65
Jun 2, 2020
Ankara is the capital of Israel
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Level 43
Jun 4, 2020
Ankara hasn't been the capital of Israel for over 100 years
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Level 64
Apr 16, 2021
You're all wrong- Bangkok is the capital of Mars
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Level 9
Oct 23, 2015
love this quiz!! :) x
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Level 69
Oct 24, 2015
Love the format! Personally I'm not so great with cities, so I would love to see this in other topics too.
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Level 74
Jan 17, 2016
Super fun, thank you
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Level 33
Jun 2, 2016
Hi kiwirage love the format on your quiz and all of your quizzes are really great and come check my quizzes please even though I only have two. I am also doing this thing where the top five recommendation and feedback comments are posted in the description of my quizzes if your comment appears most on the list you get shoutouts and a special quiz dedicated to you
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Level 19
Sep 10, 2016
Great Q
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Level 84
Oct 8, 2016
Could've sworn the Secret Capital was New Dhinko. :-P
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Level 53
Jan 28, 2017
I was flying through the quiz, but then I got stuck on one, stared at it for three minutes, then time ran out and I found out it was my own country's capital.
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Level 51
Feb 24, 2017
Too many mushrooms!
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Level 77
Feb 24, 2017
It is always nice to play this quiz afret a while.
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Level 22
Nov 21, 2019
the word is after mate
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Level 81
Jun 1, 2020
Well you needn't be afret about it anymore
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Level 71
May 16, 2017
Did anyone else get Windhoek without getting all of the letters?
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Level 67
Jun 14, 2017
11% of people.
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Level 65
Dec 15, 2018
He asked without all the letters,there is no way of telling how many letters the people had that guessed it right.
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Level 66
Dec 9, 2018
I had 3 letters, entered a random guess and got it.
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Level 22
Nov 21, 2019
I got it without any.
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Level 75
Jun 1, 2020
I was missing one letter when I got it, but I was stuck on the last two scrambled capitals so I worked on the secret one instead. (Never did get those last two before time ran out.)
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Level 38
Jul 20, 2017
Man great quiz, nearly cryptographic with some of those cities
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Level 47
Dec 20, 2017
Ah! Why don't they just feature the whole series right now?!
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Level 32
Dec 9, 2018
I Got Jerusalem But Not Cairo
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Level 65
Dec 15, 2018
I got all but accra, never heard of it. But this has been the best quiz i ve done on this site so far imo ! You really had to think, but it didnt have impossible answers which you would only know if you would live there. Usually quizes are too easy ( you get all in one go, besides the ones you never heard of) or too hard. But in this case, after a few that I got immediately,slowly but steadily, every now and then I got antoher one and made a little progress. I was so happy I got the secret city :)

Really, the other quizes for me were either boiled down to knowlegde, or speed (ok sometimes annoyance, but that would mainly be after reading all the arguments in the comments ;) ) but this one was actually fun to do. :) :) 10 stars!

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Level 72
Sep 6, 2019
Thats the difference between a quiz and a puzzle. Personally I like both, but it seems like you prefer puzzles to quizzes.
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Level 65
Jun 2, 2020
I like both, but in either case I like a challenge :) (and not so much a speedtest)

And man, weird how things change in a short time, I now can't even remember that I didn't know accra haha. With more things I ve learned on this site, sometimes I think I have known something all my life and then I read an old comment where I say something is new to me haha.

What hasn't changed is me liking this quiz(type)

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Level 48
Jan 14, 2019
I got 25/27 somehow
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Level 40
Dec 19, 2019
eventually gave up and starting typing random capitals
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Level 48
May 20, 2020
One of the best quizzes out there. So much fun!!
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Level 77
Jun 1, 2020
Too Eurocentric
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Level 65
Jun 2, 2020
What are you talking about, 13 answers weren't from europe
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Level 75
Jun 1, 2020
Another great quiz, Kiwirage. Thanks for the fun.
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Level 65
Jun 2, 2020
Man you really did manage to pick a tough scrambled secret city, I had over 4:30 minutes left to get that one... I gave up when it hit 1:11, I could not see it (and funny it contains "know hide" )
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Level 85
Jun 18, 2020
Quiz is definitely too Eurocentric. Around double the number of countries from Europe than what you would expect from random distribution.
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Level 78
Jul 14, 2020
And this comment comes without even a suspicion of irony. What is ironic is that the setter is a Kiwi. Nice puzzle/quiz Kiwirage. If there were a thumbs up emoji, I'd use it.
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Level 46
Nov 28, 2020
do tel aviv for israel. be honest.
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Level 62
Nov 28, 2020
Cope
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Level 37
Dec 11, 2020
25/27 and im only 12!
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Level 55
Feb 17, 2021
Really great quiz!!
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Level 57
Apr 21, 2021
Answers in wrong place
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Level 67
Jun 4, 2021
What's funny is that when I was stuck I would just start guessing random capitals and they ended up being the ones I was stuck on
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Level 60
Oct 15, 2021
I kept thinking of Thanes and Mali.
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Level 76
Apr 18, 2022
Athens crushed me.
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Level 32
May 12, 2022
for the AILM one i first thought of MALI
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Level 49
May 18, 2022
Great quiz! It'd be nice to see another one that is less Euro-centric.
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Level 41
Aug 3, 2022
Only 13% for Windhoek? I noticed it immediately!
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Level 60
Feb 15, 2023
It took me a while and I do a lot of Africa quizzes. I think it's because of Namibia's low population.
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Level 60
Feb 15, 2023
27/27 and revealed the Capital city as Namibia's Windhoek. Hooorah.
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Level 51
Mar 1, 2023
only one I didn't get was the city I wake up in every morning. of course
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Level 67
Apr 18, 2023
I just realized all the letters are in alphabetical order
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Level 74
Jul 13, 2023
Welp, I'm terrible at anagrams, so how am I doing this? Memorising the answers. Might not be in the spirit of the game, but I need me those points.
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Level 65
Jul 13, 2023
Completed with 7 seconds to spare - Athens took up about 2 and half minutes of my time.
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Level 55
Jul 13, 2023
Got all except the city that I live in -.- Great fun though
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Level 45
Jul 14, 2023
Tel Aviv is the capital of Israel. Jerusalem is not even Israel.
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Level 44
Oct 25, 2023
Some of the answers are broken