Word Scramble - National Capitals

Beat the clock to unscramble the names of these national capitals. The answers change every time!

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First submitted	May 28, 2013
Times taken	328,001
Average score	50.0%
Rating	4.20

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Scramble	Capital City
giiebjn	Beijing
aaip	Apia
liebrellvi	Libreville
aabimasdl	Islamabad
uoels	Seoul
lriaipk	Palikir
laervizzbla	Brazzaville

Scramble	Capital City
cbreanar	Canberra
muguendlr	Ngerulmud
nevraye	Yerevan
aucaggiptel	Tegucigalpa
ilagki	Kigali
klpmaaa	Kampala
ocoantkhut	Nouakchott

Scramble	Capital City
dnluaa	Luanda
isincao	Nicosia
hreara	Harare
barislaí	Brasília
azbreg	Zagreb
midrad	Madrid

Level 72

Jan 9, 2014

TEHERAN should be accepted as Iran´s capital too, not only TEHRAN

Level 75

Feb 10, 2017

What next? WASHINGETON?

+10

Level 28

Mar 18, 2020

Don´t laugh because it is not a bad spelling. Teheran is correct and in most of the languages is written as Teheran.

"Tehran or Teheran (/tɛəˈræn, -ˈrɑːn, ˌteɪə-/; Persian: تهران‎ Ťehrân [tehˈɾɒːn] (About this soundlisten)) is the capital of Iran and Tehran Province". Wikipedia, Britannica...

Level 64

Jun 13, 2017

Or LONEDON?

Level 45

Sep 15, 2017

I actually do agree with this, but that is because I have Teheran stuck in my head due to the Atlanta Braves starting pitcher, Julio Teheran. So, those who are Braves fans may also get mixed up with it. Now, I do understand that last names of baseball players doesn't count as to accept an incorrect spelling of a word.

Level 57

Apr 10, 2022

There are only 6 letters shown though.

Level 72

Jan 11, 2014

Careful, AMMAN and MANAMA have the same letters...

Level 43

Aug 8, 2014

Yes, and so do JUBA and ABUJA

Level 44

Oct 27, 2021

i got manama and thought is amman

WHY DOES YOUR NAME NEED TO BE SIMILAR

+18

Level 83

Feb 3, 2014

Wasted a lot of time stumped on "Tarawa"... stupid Kiribati... I'll have me revenge when my gas guzzling car sends your island nation below the Pacific..

Level 57

Apr 10, 2022

Tarawa's off the quiz now, since it's now two words (South Tarawa).

Level 19

Mar 2, 2014

I got 100% it took me 20 tries though :p

Level 40

Mar 21, 2014

What is the criteria for a correct answer? I guessed correctly on most of the questions, but for some reason only Dili was accepted. Useless

Level 72

Apr 9, 2018

Yellow box...

Level 41

Aug 12, 2018

What are the criteria, you should say?

Level 44

Oct 27, 2021

I hate yellow box

Level 48

Apr 20, 2014

19/20. I've never even HEARD of Chisinau.

Level 38

Nov 18, 2017

It is the capital city of Moldova(landlocked country in Europe)

Level 83

Apr 24, 2014

14/20. 'Cairo" came "scrambled" as 'Cairo', but I don't think that would have made a difference.

Level 83

Apr 7, 2018

Lima was scrambled as "lima" too.

Level 45

Dec 11, 2018

mine came as Mali and I was dumb enough to actually type in Mali (to be fair, I was just doing the word scramble-countries).

Level 37

Jun 8, 2014

Got all in 15th try!

My winnig set: Ljubljana, Tokyo, Skopje, Harare, Niamey, London, Asmara, Juba, Baku, Luxembourg, Zagreb, Moroni, Tegucigalpa, Apia, Kiev, Dublin, Antananarivo, Dushanbe, Luanda, Damascus

Level 35

Jun 10, 2014

20/20 first try

not too bad

Level 68

Dec 22, 2016

Did not!

Level 32

Aug 12, 2014

Are some of these even capital cities ?

Level 74

Sep 10, 2017

Yes, and almost all of them are outside of your country.

Level 57

Apr 10, 2022

Just because you don't know them doesn't mean they don't exist / aren't relevant.

Level 43

Aug 22, 2014

Really hard. Sometimes it would be crazy easy, and then the capital of the Solomon islands would be thrown in. Ugh. Took a while to get 20/20. Fun!

Level 92

Aug 23, 2014

After a zillion tries after hours upon hours for two days, I finally got 20/20. I hate everyone and everything.

Level 68

Dec 22, 2016

Am still trying. Can get 19, but not 20, arrgghhh!

Level 75

Nov 5, 2015

Could have done with an extra couple of minutes but good quiz.

Level 44

Jul 14, 2023

Me too i need more time because i don,'t know 100 percent of the capitals yet.

Level 75

Nov 5, 2015

I'm pretty good on capitals but poor on anagrams so this is great for me to get better at anagrams! 15 on my first go :-)

Level 78

Nov 5, 2015

Damn. 19 and the one I missed was ATHENS!

Level 66

Nov 5, 2015

The scramble word for moroni in my screen looks like: momoi, could you please change the order of the words QM? Cheers :)

Level 74

Sep 10, 2017

The mixing of the letters is automated -- talk to the computer.

Level 30

Nov 5, 2015

kathmandu wasnt goin thru

Level 75

Nov 5, 2015

The usual mis-spellings are allowed, even though the letters are all fed to you!

Level 55

Nov 5, 2015

Rawr on you, Ljubljana. Could not remember where all the L's and J's go.

Level 62

Nov 5, 2015

Finally! - awesome quiz my favorite in while.

I was getting down to the last one or two for a while, but found it helpful to type in the letters in a different order for a fresh perspective.

Level 52

Nov 5, 2015

rnmoovia seemed for me like mmoovia and i just couldn't get it. Maybe you should seperate r and n.

Level 65

Nov 5, 2015

When you're stumped until you give up and you know you should have known the answer, you just want to kick yourself. I, for example, missed Riga when I've known that for, let's say, 3 years. And I'm 12!!!

Level 42

Nov 7, 2015

Tokyo wasn't scrambled. Yay!

Level 39

Nov 8, 2015

Finally, 20/20, with 40 seconds remaining. This quiz is so infuriating. Haha.

Level 71

Nov 9, 2015

Yes! Finally! After playing this on my lunch break for days, I got 20/20. Now that I've learned some of the more obscure capitals, I have to go look up where they are.

Level 73

Nov 10, 2015

1:47 left. I just can't type faster than that without risking a few fingernails.

Level 50

Nov 14, 2015

I enjoy this quiz very much and usually get all the answers. I find the font is very difficult - r n looks like m and l looks like i, for example.

Could it be re-cast in a more distinctive font?

Level 74

Sep 10, 2017

I have to agree - sans serif fonts are much harder to read than serif fonts. Making the text bigger in my browser is a pain most of the time since I watch movies while I do quizzes. #woeisme

Level 57

Dec 3, 2015

Ankara's clue was "Ankara". Can't get any easier than that.

Level 74

Mar 17, 2016

I saw uaaougoudgo and knew it was Ouuagadougou, but couldn't figure out how to spell it. Wound up with a score of 6/20.

Level 75

Apr 7, 2018

Same here, except I finally managed a score of 10/20. Oogadoogou, Ougadougu, Oagudougu, bah. At least on this one the spelling police should be happy. It only accepts exact spellings due to the nature of the quiz.

Level 45

Nov 11, 2019

Not that it will help you two now, but Ouaga is an accepted shorthand name.

Level 64

Apr 21, 2016

16 for me

Level 70

Jun 5, 2016

After about 20 tries I got it with 0:03 left

Level 72

Jun 7, 2016

ngerulmud seems to be scrambled, but it isn´t... jajaja

Level 71

Jun 27, 2016

For a bit of fun try my ....... Mal's 'World Capitals Anagrams'

Level 43

Jul 7, 2016

I can't believe i missed Vienna! I'm from Austria!

Level 45

Sep 26, 2016

Gottem all in my first try

Level 68

Dec 22, 2016

Respect!

Level 82

Oct 12, 2016

19, even though I had a minute to figure out Podgorica. Somehow I always think about non-European places when I'm stuck

Level 68

Oct 15, 2016

"berlin" and "apia", seriously?

Level 52

Nov 17, 2016

Challenging quiz. Got 18, then 19, then finally 20 on 3rd effort with 4 secs left. Good one for helping me to learn the capitals and how to spell it

Level 45

Dec 6, 2016

I got lucky and I got all 20 with 1:30 left. Man, I'm good at geography :D

Level 60

Dec 16, 2016

It's cruel this is part of a badge :(

Level 64

Jun 13, 2017

This has felled me too...

Level 79

Dec 16, 2016

Finally - took me 5 tries.

Level 47

Jan 12, 2017

earned my geo badge!

Level 57

Feb 8, 2017

Just moved onto here after finishing world capitals. Still so challenging, finally got 20 after tens of attempts

Level 43

Feb 8, 2017

I am just SO glad that Sri Jayawardenapura Kotte wasn't in there

Level 53

Mar 11, 2017

This is nearly impossible in two and a half minutes

Level 56

Mar 26, 2017

Took me like a hundred times, finnaly got the Random Geography badge! I even learned some new cities from this quiz.

Level 48

May 9, 2017

Okay, folks, we get it that sometimes a 4 or 5 letter capitol randomly comes up in the right order. Get back to us when you get 'Yamoussoukro' coming up randomly as 'Yamoussoukro'.

Level 66

Feb 25, 2019

But how do you know, if every 'o' is on his correct spot then?!

Level 22

May 10, 2017

AFter continuously scoring 19, I finally got all correct

Level 17

May 18, 2017

ALGER NOT ALGIERS

Level 72

Apr 9, 2018

QUIZ IN ENGLISH NOT FRENCH

Level 68

Jun 14, 2017

Finally! I got my badge!

Level 61

Jun 15, 2017

I think 2:30 is way too short. Should be 3 minutes at the least.

Level 45

Aug 22, 2017

impossible...i will never complete this quiz...

Level 70

Oct 14, 2017

FINALLY I GOT THAT BADGE !!!

Level 71

Oct 20, 2017

Like this quiz?...... try my 'Double Trouble Countries quiz...... here it is

Level 45

Nov 1, 2017

tunis- er, Tunis?

Level 58

Dec 13, 2017

I has Juba and Dili and both were good spelled. L.O.L ;-)

Level 68

Dec 13, 2017

I've tried this quiz almost 50 times, and I can just never crack 2:10 remaining. Too many long ones in every set.

Level 38

Apr 2, 2018

HARDEST BADGE EVER TO GET

Level 59

Apr 7, 2018

I can't believe I got all of them in my second try

Level 74

Apr 7, 2018

Guess I'm a pro then first try ;)

Level 66

Apr 7, 2018

For some reason belgrade doesn't work...

Level 57

Apr 8, 2018

got all on first try with 29 seconds to spare :)

Level 72

Apr 9, 2018

It's odd that this quiz accepts mispellings. I mean, they do give you all the letters...

Level 29

Apr 17, 2018

man Lima came up as Mali and I was like what is going on here lol...

Level 63

May 24, 2018

Ouagadougou? Really? That's just mean!

Level 70

Jun 27, 2018

17 !!

Level 70

Jul 3, 2018

18/ 20 !! Good score !

Level 74

Aug 22, 2018

I just cannot complete this!

Level 44

Aug 26, 2018

first try 19, missed kingston. second try 19 missed berlin, third try 20/20. Hard quiz....

Level 43

Sep 16, 2018

Cotonou? should be Porto Novo

anyway great quiz

Level 68

Sep 29, 2018

Cotonou and Porto Novo are both often considered the capital of Benin, but Porto Novo probably moreso.

Level 43

Oct 21, 2018

So I got Lome scrambled as Elmo, Antananarivo scrambled as Ovirananatna, and Ouagadougou scrambles as oooougoguogogoguoguoguoguougugaa

Level 45

Nov 14, 2018

i will never spell 'Yassoumoukro' right

Level 45

Nov 14, 2018

i just spelled it wrong again

Level 45

Nov 14, 2018

i hate khartoum. seriously.

Level 45

Nov 14, 2018

nooooooooooo belmopan WHY

Level 45

Nov 14, 2018

20th or so try, 20/20

Level 48

Jan 24, 2019

I can't spell mangua

Level 76

Feb 8, 2019

Had 19 on first try. Got stumped by "Gitega", which I've never heard before. Turns out it had replaced Bujumbura as the capital of Burundi in December 2018 only. D'oh!

Level 44

Mar 8, 2019

No many how many times I do it there's always one or two I just can't get and it's so frustrating, I need this quiz for a badge :/

Level 74

May 15, 2019

I just can't crack all twenty. 16 is as good as it has got so far.

Level 23

Jun 17, 2019

All right with my eyes close and my nose under water

Level 67

Jul 20, 2019

Please add the diacritics in the scrambled version of Chișinău.

Level 35

Jul 21, 2019

My first three tries:

1.) 8

2.) 10

3.) 13

I went from horrible 8, okay 10, and unlucky 13. Wow. XD

Level 47

Jul 23, 2019

So so so so hard!!! I could've gotten the random geography badge a lot sooner without this quiz

Level 57

Oct 11, 2019

For some reason, Kampala wasn't accepted for me

Level 67

Oct 28, 2019

One of my capitals was moroni. Where the hell is that?

Level 76

Nov 22, 2019

scrmooo

Level 75

Nov 11, 2019

I missed Asuncion (ninausco) Kinshasa (ainashks) Lisbon (onilbs) Khartoum (thrakumo) Brasilia (riisbaal) Conakry (rockyna) and Freetown (tenfowre)

Level 75

Nov 11, 2019

My second time I got all 20, but Ulaanbaatar really tripped me up being spelled anatrabalua

Level 53

Dec 16, 2019

Cotonou is not the actual capital of Benin

Level 53

Dec 16, 2019

took me about 40 tries

Level 75

Dec 17, 2019

I had "nmaam" and "nammaa" right next to each other

Level 50

Dec 21, 2019

fam cotonou is not a capital

Level 26

Feb 11, 2020

i like this particular quiz but subscribe to Gort and Reflex for a better life without slavery and poverty.

Level 33

Mar 11, 2020

Usually on jetpunk Pretoria is used as the capital of South Africa. So it's a bit confusing to see Bloemfontein there...

Level 52

Mar 17, 2020

I've been trying to get the Random Geography badge for the past hour and I keep getting 17,18,19, please help.

Level 28

Mar 18, 2020

Since when Sucre is the capital of Bolivia?? I do not know who has created this, but it should know it is La Paz

Level 68

May 6, 2020

On JetPunk, Bolivia is generally accredited with having capitals in both La Paz AND Sucre. According to the Googles: La Paz is the seat of the government, and Sucre is the legal capital and the seat of the judiciary. Hope this helps :)

Level 56

Apr 3, 2020

I got kilagi for kigali :D

And Mocano for monaco :D:D:D:D:D:D

Level 68

May 6, 2020

AHHH I got 19!!! Sooooo close. I missed Ulaanbaatar.... oof

Level 52

May 10, 2020

It's funny to think about the fact that Mali is an anagram for Lima.

Level 25

May 19, 2020

Bloemfontein is not a capital. Thanks.

Level 22

Jun 5, 2020

Bloemfontein is one of the 3 Capitals of South Africa. You may not like it but thats just a fact

Level 55

May 21, 2020

After about fifty tries I finally got it. Now I have the random geography badge! :)

Level 76

Jun 1, 2020

This one gets no easier with practice, and that is its beauty.

Scraped through on second attempt with Sucre, Victoria and Gitega being the last ones in.

Level 57

Jun 11, 2020

Cotonou isn’t the capital of Benin. Porto-Novo is.

Level 65

Jul 12, 2020

The quiz is random but those scrambled words are shown before the user clicks "Start quiz", hence there is time to make some preparation.

Level 59

Aug 10, 2020

This is my last quiz for my last badge and I cannot do it. I struggle with capitals AND word scrambles. You can't even cheat this one!1

Level 66

Oct 9, 2020

Technically you can cheat by figuring out the answers and then start so you know all the answers when you start the quiz.

Level 49

Aug 17, 2020

Cotonou instead of Porto Novo... yeah sure, I'll use external help on this one if you lay such traps

Level 61

Sep 20, 2020

Is there a version where you have to unscramble the anagram of the capital city, then your answer has to be the country that the city is capital of? So RPSIA would be France.

Level 63

Sep 20, 2020

0:53

... this time

Really gotta love those randomized quizzes, especially with anagrams <3

Thanks!

Level 73

Sep 21, 2020

I was stuck on makaa and, when I saw the answer, I realized it was r n a k a a not m a k a a. What an idiot.

Level 59

Oct 12, 2020

I can't get passed 15. Time definitely should be increased by a minute.

Level 58

Oct 27, 2020

All I got was Lima, Suva, Juba, Bern, and Havana lol

Level 58

Oct 31, 2020

"Gigeta" is not a capital of any country, as far as I can tell.

Level 60

Nov 19, 2020

It's the capital of Burundi.

Level 55

Nov 8, 2020

20 in my first try!!

Level 64

Nov 11, 2020

In your previous quiz you had Porto-Novo as the capital of Benin, this one had Cotonou!!!???

Level 60

Nov 19, 2020

You don't know how it feels to get three 19/20 scores in a row.

Level 48

Dec 3, 2020

Me: sees word with 5 "a"s in it

Also me: well hello there Ulaanbaatar!

Level 56

Dec 31, 2020

I feel very bad for anyone who got Sri Jayawardenepura Kotte as an answer

Level 40

Jan 8, 2021

After 4 months, I have 19 WHYYYYYYYYYYYYYY

Level 57

Jan 24, 2021

i sure do know my capitals now -_-

Level 60

Feb 12, 2021

I FINALLY GOT 20!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Level 23

Feb 25, 2021

one of hardest=ouagadougou

Level 68

Apr 24, 2021

the fact that wellington contains the letters of lilongwe is frustrating to say the least.

Level 18

Apr 26, 2021

Cotonou? The capital of Benin is Porto-Novo, no?

Level 43

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)

Level 43

May 25, 2021

Finally got the badge :)

Level 55

May 26, 2021

Who had the bright idea of Sri Lanka's capital

Sri

Jayawardenepura

Kotte

Level 46

May 26, 2021

I had this badge on a seperate account but forgot the password and username!!!

Level 46

May 28, 2021

finally got it on this account

Level 65

Jun 26, 2021

After 1.5 years and 1 year without touching the quiz I finally got it!!

Level 38

Aug 21, 2021

got em all 2nd try 1min left

Level 61

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.

Level 33

Nov 23, 2021

20/20 32 seconds :D

Level 68

Dec 3, 2021

Only took about 50 tries! Finally got my random geography badge!

Level 54

Dec 6, 2021

cotonou isnt the main/actual capital of benin porto-novo is so I got 19 of 20.

Level 44

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

Level 56

Jan 24, 2022

got my random geography badge :D

Level 41

Apr 22, 2022

Should be like 5 minutes

Level 57

May 6, 2022

With this quiz I realized how similar Manama and Amman, Juba and Abuja, and Athens and Tehran are.

Level 44

May 7, 2022

kataraj

Level 44

Jun 4, 2022

what was einkwohd?

Level 69

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.

Level 56

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!

Level 74

Jul 19, 2022

"cheat using the internet" is hardly a pro tip...

Level 46

Jul 13, 2022

I got mreo and didnt realise that its Rome...

Level 16

Jul 15, 2022

HOW?!

Level 25

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

Level 57

Jul 19, 2022

Some of them are scrambled, even when they're unscrambled...

Level 34

Jul 19, 2022

I guess I’m geography pro for getting all??

Level 28

Jul 21, 2022

I wish we didn't have to waste our limited time scrolling to the word we want to enter.

Level 34

Jul 24, 2022

Cotonou isn't the capital city of Benin. It's Porto-Novo. Cotonou is the most populous city.

Level 34

Jul 25, 2022

After thousands of tries, finally... I DID IT!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Level 28

Sep 4, 2022

Agh! I got Bloemfontein, a capital I've never learned because cape town or pretoria is faster and easier :'(

Level 28

Sep 4, 2022

Got 20 on my third try, though if Bloemfontein had popped up again I'd have failed :p

Level 54

Sep 8, 2022

1, do the capitals that are mutiple words not go on here?

2. I got Tegucigalpa as it is

Level 49

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

Level 36

Sep 21, 2022

This quiz is not for the faint of heart

Level 61

Oct 10, 2022

That must have taken me about 50 attempts! Phew, glad that one’s done

Level 62

Nov 21, 2022

Astana needs to be deleted and nur sultan needs to be added

Level 33

Nov 27, 2022

It's impossible

Level 42

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.

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

Level 61

Jan 17, 2023

only took 93 tries for 20/20!!

Level 23

Jan 30, 2023

I got antananarivo as inatovaranana it was tripping but i made it in time

Level 62

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.

Level 34

Jun 6, 2023

Day 929 on spelling Chișinău?

Level 70

Jul 9, 2023

Welp, that took an embarrassing number of attempts.

Level 28

Aug 2, 2023

The capital of Benin is not Cotonou, it is Porto Novo

Level 29

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

Level 52

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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