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Word Puzzles - World Cities #1

Guess each clue and then sound them out together to form the name of a city.
Example: boring brown color + gerund ender = Beige + ing = Beijing
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First submittedNovember 25, 2013
Times taken48,807
Average score70.0%
Rating4.50
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Word Puzzle
City
Morning moisture + to purchase
Dubai
Sack + father
Baghdad
Mr. Nicholson + cardiac organ + British slang for thank you
Jakarta
Feline + woman's counterpart + present tense of did
Kathmandu
Baby chicken + small gear + place to get $200 in Monopoly
Chicago
Bartlett or Anjou + snake's sound
Paris
Unlocking tool + foot digit
Quito
Siddhārtha Gautama + annoying person
Budapest
Ceiling opposite + to wash away shampoo
Florence
Before triple + ye olde hotel
Dublin
"Beauty and the Beast" heroine + refrain from eating
Belfast
Window material + Chinese strategy game
Glasgow
Hades + wash basin + piano part
Helsinki
Present tense of was + beige + male cow
Istanbul
Australian tree marsupial + weaving device + not rich
Kuala Lumpur
Military conflict + lumberjack's tool
Warsaw
Gun sound + rooster
Bangkok
One of 52 + word indicating a hypothetical
Cardiff
Johann Sebastian + dove's sound
Baku
Beaver's construction + pose a question to + not them
Damascus
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51 Comments
Jerry928
+13
Level 76
Aug 31, 2015
Dubai only works if you pronounce dew as doo - outside the US it's pronounced dyew!
sumguy
+27
Level 87
Jul 10, 2016
Not in my part of the outside the US.
Hollywood
+7
Level 61
Aug 9, 2019
Mine either
barmanitan
+3
Level 83
Sep 17, 2023
yod dropping vs yod coalescence :)

(and yes its not strictly us non-us, but generally the distinction made is us vs uk, however entitled that may be)

Jerry928
+3
Level 76
Aug 28, 2025
I was about to comment about Dubai then saw I made exactly the same comment ten years ago! Maybe it's time to change that clue?
Badeghut
+8
Level 73
Sep 11, 2025
Eh stuff like that's kinda inevitable for this type of quiz. The pronunciations are never going to line up perfectly so I think it's reasonable that there's some amount of discrepancy there. Like if you were to be super strict about that kind of stuff you'd also have to change the clue for at least Dublin, Jakarta and Kuala Lumpur, ignoring the issues also with different pronunciations of the different cities across dialects
JMM
+2
Level 60
Sep 11, 2025
I pronounce dew as dyew and Dubai rhymes.
PrettyTiedUp
+1
Level 71
Sep 19, 2025
I make fun of my mother in law for pronouncing it "Dyew-bai". We usually say "Duh-bai" in the UK.
ander217
+3
Level 74
Jul 10, 2016
Loved this quiz. Hope to see more like it.
Hollywood
+1
Level 61
Aug 9, 2019
I agree! Best quiz ever
cosmokim
+1
Level 70
Jul 10, 2016
Great quiz! Made me think a lot.
Malbaby
+1
Level 70
Apr 23, 2017
Another good quiz, for those jetpunkers that like to think, try 'The CHALLENGE' a puzzle-quiz to get you thinking for a while at ... ... http://www.jetpunk.com/user-quizzes/120558/the-challenge
cornflakesfu
+4
Level 89
Jun 5, 2018
lol I wrote "Buddhapest" and wondered why it didn't work.
CurrentFuture
+1
Level 51
Jun 9, 2018
Took a LONG time to get Chicago, not because of the clue, but because there's a seperate quiz for US cities!
PoetsCorner
+15
Level 87
Oct 19, 2022
And, as we all know, the U.S. isn't part of the world.
Danem20
+1
Level 88
Aug 28, 2025
Are cities in the US not also cities in the world?
Ears
+1
Level 93
May 6, 2019
Fun! Thanks
Tomtrific
+11
Level 81
Jun 15, 2019
Fun quiz! I kept saying key-toe, key-toe, key-toe, and all I could come up with was Kyoto. If it was a snake it woulda bit me.
RobNobody
+3
Level 80
Aug 27, 2025
No, that was the Paris clue.
larrylevine
+2
Level 68
Apr 5, 2020
4 stars for "Munich" and "Dublin".
prosteven
+11
Level 76
Jun 29, 2020
Key+Toe could also be Kyoto
ML363
+6
Level 52
Aug 17, 2020
Yep, I kept trying the same
JackintheBox
+2
Level 82
Aug 30, 2025
Missing an 'o'
blizzrd33
+6
Level 81
Jul 20, 2022
Chick + car + go would be better for Chicago. But "cog" isn't pronounced "CAG" unless I put on as harsh an American accent as I can come up with.
buck1017
+3
Level 78
Jul 20, 2022
I'm from like 100 miles south of Chicago. I can say with absolute certainty that Chicago natives pronounce it "shi-CAH-go." The rest of the country pronounces it "shi-COG-o." So that harsh American accent you are talking about? Probably pretty spot on for the regional pronunciation.
Deathranger999
+3
Level 63
May 1, 2023
I'm gonna be honest...I don't think I have a particularly heavy accent, but I pronounce the "cag" in Chicago exactly the same as I pronounce "cog." I'm honestly not sure how you'd pronounce them differently. Do you say "cog" as cawg or something?
buck1017
+3
Level 78
Jul 20, 2023
That's how i say it as well, but native Chicagoans tend to pronounce the "cog" with the "o" sound similar to the "a" in apple. It's not quite that drastic, but it's certainly different than how its pronounced downstate.
kitsims
+5
Level 86
Aug 27, 2025
For me, 'cog' has a short o sound, whereas the 'cag' of Chicago has a long ah sound. But I'm from the UK - I think pretty much any one syllable word where the vowel is a short O here (dog, not, etc.) would be pronounced with a long AH sound in the US.

It's perfectly possible to do ok on this kind of quiz if you're not from the US, we just have to think ourselves into a different accent for a bit :-)

sumguy
+4
Level 87
Aug 27, 2025
I have no idea what "small gear" is, but I figured that Chick + ? + go = Chicago.
PrincessLeppard
+2
Level 60
Aug 27, 2025
cog? I think?
MovieQuizGuy
+1
Level 63
Sep 12, 2025
Same
RobNobody
+2
Level 80
Aug 27, 2025
But then USAmericans would wonder why you're putting an r sound in the middle of Chicago.
seabird
+1
Level 69
Jul 20, 2023
I thought wash basin was a Tub. If I had thought of the correct answer I would have gotten it.
Keza
+1
Level 74
Aug 27, 2025
Loved Jakarta. It made me laugh out loud.
homunculus
+5
Level 88
Aug 28, 2025
Only Americans pronounce Paris as "Pearis"
ooftownroad
+2
Level 68
Sep 11, 2025
*English speakers
Ferbin
+1
Level 79
Sep 16, 2025
Not really. In any case, it would be closer to Peris.
luxint
+3
Level 67
Aug 28, 2025
Like it. Thanks. I got fixated on "week" for the one of 52 clue. Grrrr.
CryonicCrusader76
+1
Level 76
Sep 12, 2025
Same XD
Sifhraven
+1
Level 76
Aug 29, 2025
I only missed the Paris one, and I still have no clue.. No idea who Bartlett and Ajou are.
cosmocorsican
+3
Level 83
Aug 29, 2025
They're types of pears!
SpartanLlama
+1
Level 78
Aug 29, 2025
Just missed Paris
Algernon
+3
Level 74
Aug 30, 2025
“One of 52”…..’ ahhhh, ‘week’ so now what cities start with ‘week’?’ A minute later the game ends with me still stumped, and I see the answer. Sigh
MovieQuizGuy
+1
Level 63
Sep 12, 2025
Could be worse--I saw "52+" and immediately thought it was some kind of math problem, despite every other clue on the quiz.
81928128
+1
Level 63
Sep 2, 2025
I tried Bangalore and Bangui before I finally figured out what the rooster was meant to be
RiscaGame
+2
Level 56
Sep 11, 2025
Loved this quiz. Missed Paris and Chicago, so quite happy.
MovieQuizGuy
+1
Level 63
Sep 12, 2025
I spent an embarrassingly long time saying, "The answer should be Warsaw, but lumberjacks use an ax!"
Screwjack
+2
Level 67
Sep 13, 2025
Quito? More like Kyoto…..
bearwife2
+1
Level 32
Sep 14, 2025
Very creative quiz I love it
GeoHenning
+1
Level 66
Nov 21, 2025
Although I got the point and used the English pronunciation, the Johann Sebastian one really hurt, being native in German.
buck1017
+1
Level 78
Nov 25, 2025
I'm not going to lie...the unintended consequence of forcing Europeans to use an American accent to do these puzzles is making me happier than I was expecting. Haha.
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