Word Scramble - National Capitals

Beat the clock to unscramble the names of these national capitals. The answers change every time!
Answer must correspond to the yellow box
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First submittedMay 28, 2013
Times taken486,005
Average score60.0%
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Capital
ngjiieb
Beijing
lhkiseni
Helsinki
nsiut
Tunis
shtnetka
Tashkent
idli
Dili
amnam
Amman
ocaknry
Conakry
ljabnujal
Ljubljana
gailik
Kigali
suraem
Maseru
advuz
Vaduz
mnamaa
Manama
suisab
Bissau
asnthe
Athens
jlmueaser
Jerusalem
mero
Rome
ujab
Juba
rmiono
Moroni
asskaihn
Kinshasa
oaiterrp
Pretoria
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101 Recent Comments
+11
Level 38
Apr 26, 2021
Cotonou? The capital of Benin is Porto-Novo, no?
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Level 38
Mar 16, 2025
I came to the comments extremely frustrated looking for this. Looks like I didn't get closure anyways, but at least I'm not alone
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Level 51
Nov 8, 2025
in the capitals quiz (196 countries) it shows both, i think
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Level 48
May 15, 2021
how come everytime I play this I get Jakarta as one of them. not complaining cuz it makes my life a little easier lmao. (Jakarta is the capital of Indonesia incase you did not know)
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Level 43
May 25, 2021
Finally got the badge :)
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Level 73
May 26, 2021
Who had the bright idea of Sri Lanka's capital

Sri

Jayawardenepura

Kotte

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Level 33
Apr 27, 2026
Just find the one that looks like a cat lied on your keyboard.
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Level 45
May 26, 2021
I had this badge on a seperate account but forgot the password and username!!!
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Level 45
May 28, 2021
finally got it on this account
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Level 70
Jun 26, 2021
After 1.5 years and 1 year without touching the quiz I finally got it!!
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Level 44
Aug 21, 2021
got em all 2nd try 1min left
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Level 76
Sep 2, 2021
Finally!!!!, my winning batch: Freetown, Ottawa, Suva, Riga, Majuro, Lusaka, Sarajevo, Nouakchott, Baghdad, Tunis, Madrid, Moscow, Tripoli, Kampala, Ankara, Bamako, Georgetown, Tegucigalpa, Bogota, and Pyongyang.
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Level 32
Nov 23, 2021
20/20 32 seconds :D
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Level 68
Dec 3, 2021
Only took about 50 tries! Finally got my random geography badge!
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Level 52
Dec 6, 2021
cotonou isnt the main/actual capital of benin porto-novo is so I got 19 of 20.
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Level 58
Jan 15, 2022
Damn! This was the hardest quiz I've ever done. Tried at least 20 times, slowly getting better and better and finally I made it 20/20! A whole saturday night just for that badge :D
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Level 58
Jan 24, 2022
got my random geography badge :D
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Level 60
Apr 22, 2022
Should be like 5 minutes
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Level 63
May 6, 2022
With this quiz I realized how similar Manama and Amman, Juba and Abuja, and Athens and Tehran are.
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Level 49
May 7, 2022
kataraj
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Level 49
Jun 4, 2022
what was einkwohd?
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Level 39
Dec 19, 2023
windhoek?
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Level 77
Jun 7, 2022
Apparently I'm terrible at this. Took me 21 minutes in untimed, and I got the last few fast by going over the map in my head. Luckily I had two with diacritics, which are dead giveaways.
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Level 55
Jun 29, 2022
Pro tip to make this quiz much easier for anyone that is trying to get the random geography badge and is stuck on this quiz: First off, don't click start quiz until you have figured out each capital city. The best way to find each capital city is to search up capital cities by the amount of letters in the scrambles that you are given (I personally suggest using the website "bestforpuzzles" to find the lists of capital cities). Then use Ctrl+F on whichever website you choose to look for letters that are in the scrambles that you have. Use some form of notepad, whether it be online or physical, to write down each capital city as you figure them out. By doing this, you should be able to easily find all 20 capitals in 15-20 minutes maximum. Hopefully this helps!
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Level 74
Jul 19, 2022
"cheat using the internet" is hardly a pro tip...
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Level 46
Oct 16, 2023
It does seem to be necessary, as cheaty as it may seem.
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Level 46
Jul 13, 2022
I got mreo and didnt realise that its Rome...
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Level 16
Jul 15, 2022
HOW?!
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Level 26
Jul 17, 2022
This quiz isn't really fair at all. We don't have enough time, and some of the answers aren't even actual capitals
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Level 59
Jul 19, 2022
Some of them are scrambled, even when they're unscrambled...
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Level 33
Jul 19, 2022
I guess I’m geography pro for getting all??
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Level 30
Jul 21, 2022
I wish we didn't have to waste our limited time scrolling to the word we want to enter.
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Level 61
Jul 24, 2022
Cotonou isn't the capital city of Benin. It's Porto-Novo. Cotonou is the most populous city.
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Level 61
Jul 25, 2022
After thousands of tries, finally... I DID IT!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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Level 30
Sep 4, 2022
Agh! I got Bloemfontein, a capital I've never learned because cape town or pretoria is faster and easier :'(
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Level 30
Sep 4, 2022
Got 20 on my third try, though if Bloemfontein had popped up again I'd have failed :p
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Level 52
Sep 8, 2022
1, do the capitals that are mutiple words not go on here?

2. I got Tegucigalpa as it is

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Level 48
Sep 21, 2022
I thought there was an error when Astana was an answer, only to google it and find out Nur-Sultan is no more
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Level 40
Sep 21, 2022
This quiz is not for the faint of heart
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Level 59
Oct 10, 2022
That must have taken me about 50 attempts! Phew, glad that one’s done
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Level 66
Nov 21, 2022
Astana needs to be deleted and nur sultan needs to be added
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Level 33
Nov 27, 2022
It's impossible
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Level 40
Dec 16, 2022
Cotonou is not the capital of Benin. The capital of Benin is Porto-Novo, but the seat of government is in Cotonou.
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Level 28
Jan 2, 2023
got amsliabad, aknara and iipeat

h m m i w o n d e r w h a t t h o s e a r e s u p p o s e d t o b e

i j u s t c a n t s e e m t o f i g u r e o u t

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Level 62
Jan 17, 2023
only took 93 tries for 20/20!!
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Level 23
Jan 30, 2023
I got antananarivo as inatovaranana it was tripping but i made it in time
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Level 73
Apr 10, 2023
I'm getting something odd on this quiz causing me to get black diamonds with question marks on them as letters. Also when these show it seems to prevent me from starting the quiz and opening the comments.
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Level 36
Jun 6, 2023
Day 929 on spelling Chișinău?
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Level 71
Jul 9, 2023
Welp, that took an embarrassing number of attempts.
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Level 28
Aug 2, 2023
The capital of Benin is not Cotonou, it is Porto Novo
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Level 32
Sep 9, 2023
Please remove Bloemfontein since ist NOT the Capital of South Africa anymore. I tried this Quiz for soooo Long and IT IS Frustrating to get 19/20 because of a mistake in the quiz
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Level 46
Oct 16, 2023
Bloemfontein is one of the capitals of south africa
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Level 57
Sep 10, 2023
This quiz is so ridiculously hard!! I am a major geography nerd but this is ridiculous even for me. I just want the badge man!
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Level 46
Sep 28, 2023
only took 51 attempts !! seriously cruel that this is needed for a badge, but incredibly rewarding when i finally did it XD
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Level 46
Oct 12, 2023
This is hell
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Level 65
Oct 12, 2023
WHY DID I GET BOTH THE CAPITALS OF MADAGASCAR AND BURKINA FASO
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Level 46
Oct 16, 2023
I do think either reducing the need to 15/20 for the badge or making all of the scrambles start with the first letter would make this badge so much easier
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Level 46
Oct 16, 2023
finally the random geography badge
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Level 57
Oct 24, 2023
how do people look at qwieurqouwefb and distinguish a word???? its jsut not possible for my brain
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Level 66
Nov 4, 2023
There is something wrong with a Type-In for Zagreb.
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Level 63
Jan 22, 2024
Cotonou is not the capital of Benin, technically Porto-Novo is the actual official capital, I understand that there is two but it might be worth seeing what everyone else thinks.
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Level 63
Jan 28, 2024
This is not only one of the most difficult quizzes on this site, but also one of the least fun to play. Requiring the user to get a perfect 20/20 to get progression for the random badge is ridiculous and you must be psychotic to enjoy this quiz.
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Level 83
Jan 31, 2024
That moment you get 19 right away and take 1:30 to barely get your own country’s capital with 5 seconds left.
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Level 54
Feb 5, 2024
It only took three tries because I had all Europe, South America, Central America, and very obvious (Beijing, Tokyo) Asia capitals the third time. None I didn’t know, and I only know about a hundred.

This quiz is very very difficult.

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Level 70
Feb 29, 2024
I'm quite sure Praia wasn't accepted when I just tried this
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Level 68
Mar 8, 2024
this took me so long to beat for the random geography badge...

I don't think i'm playing this quiz for the year.

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Level 56
Apr 26, 2024
After all the struggle I finally got all 20
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Level 61
May 22, 2024
13/20, very proud that i got windhoek and pretoria :3
+1
Level 46
May 22, 2024
I FINALLY DID IT!!!!! 30 seconds left and I finally finished this!!! This took me like 2 weeks of tryingggg
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Level 52
Jun 11, 2024
Took me 8th try on this quiz to get the badge finally. Got Conakry with seconds left.
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Level 79
Jun 20, 2024
Finally got everything, one step closer to Random Geography badge
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Level 25
Jun 21, 2024
After 5 tries, I finally got it!
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Level 58
Aug 10, 2024
3 in a row 13/20 sigh... this is so hard
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Level 57
Sep 25, 2024
FINALLY after the 81st attempt and many years lmao I DID IT!!!
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Level 67
Nov 8, 2024
gosh, it took me like 5 tries to finally get a 20/20, & honestly it was such a painful experience I never wanna go through again
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Level 61
Nov 25, 2024
This was hard, I even took a while to get London lol
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Level 44
Dec 10, 2024
If anyone needs help, these are the words that got me the Random Geography badge:

aadhk - dhaka

adbaasiml - islamabad

labvrzzliae - brazzaville

smkni - minsk

lmaain - manila

iapa - apia

koepsj - skopje

rainoah - honairu

uosel - seoul

mhtdkuaan - kathmandu

arearcnb - canberra

pasri - paris

liunvis - vilnius

dnonlon - london

onaniusc - asuncion

arhrea - harare

scracaa - caracas

ieniavnte - vientiane

amuksyoroosu - yamoussoukro

eranth - tehran

hope this helps!

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Level 20
Jan 7, 2025
its random
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Level 62
Dec 17, 2024
this nearly k worded me
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Level 20
Jan 7, 2025
its impossible
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Level 71
Jan 8, 2025
I finally after at least a year of trying I finally got 20/20 that was damn near hard
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Level 43
Jan 25, 2025
The time allotted for this quiz is completely nonsensical.
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Level 48
Feb 9, 2025
I got Ngerulmud and Naypyidaw in the same quiz.

Those aren't scrambled ones, those are actual capitals.

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Level 53
Feb 21, 2025
Asunción almost killed me
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Level 55
Mar 28, 2025
Don't see why everyone is saying that it took years, because while time was quite short, it wasn't that hard to get 100 percent on. Got it on my 4th try.
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Level 44
Mar 29, 2025
This quiz is way too hard, and the answers changing each time you take it makes the quiz even harder
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Level 34
May 4, 2025
Take a screenshot of it and then look through a list of national capitals and find all of them and then do the quiz
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Level 61
Aug 31, 2025
The anagrams change every time as well though
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Level 55
Jun 6, 2025
Is Atenthks actually a capital of a country just scrambled up, if so tell me
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Level 58
Jan 13, 2026
Tashkent?
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Level 61
Aug 31, 2025
Finally got it after 36 attempts
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Level 74
Nov 21, 2025
I am bad at anagrams, so I thought I'd ask Google for the last one I was missing.

"sscritea is the anagram of Tehran if you remove the letters ss and c"

Mmmm, yeah, but also adding an "h" and removing the "c", that's not how anagrams work, AI!

In the end my brain managed to find the answer, but it needed way too long XD

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Level 48
Jan 6, 2026
I literally sat there for 15 min and solved all of them in my head, remembered them, and then started the quiz. Is this cheating?
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Level 60
Jan 12, 2026
I would say yes.
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Level 83
Jan 12, 2026
Rip Malabo.
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Level 58
Jan 12, 2026
Cotonou is not the capital of Benin, Porto Novo is. So this seems very misleading.
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Level 81
Jan 12, 2026
man i suck at word scrambles

i either get the answer instantly or stare at for 5 minutes with no luck

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Level 76
Jan 13, 2026
I got "Tobgao". Of course that must be "Tobago"!. No, wait, that's not a capital... okay, Bogota it is.
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Level 29
Feb 17, 2026
blasted through this in 1:12. Way too easy, can't believe the test has such a looong timer
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Level 72
Apr 3, 2026
I did it! This one is always so tough for me...thank you!
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Level 43
Apr 5, 2026
Took like 20 tries because theres lack of time given