Name a body part people have exactly one of (like the nose)

October 21, 2026 · Daily Dive #98

Explore 589 recorded answers and their points for question 5 on October 21, 2026.

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589 recorded names on October 21, 2026, 499 at 85 or higher. The highest recorded score on this question is 100.

Think like a prosector working down the midline: the board rewards the formal nomenclature of anatomy, so aim for catalogue entries rather than the ordinary words people use at the dinner table. Only a single structure that occurs once in an individual body counts; paired organs, one-sided features and anything repeated at every level or segment are excluded even when the term sounds impressive.

589 recorded answers499 at 85+ points100 highest recorded points
  • One in a Krillion1100 pts
  • Deep Cut49885 pts
  • Rare6060 pts
  • Schooler2530 pts
  • Plankton510 pts
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Recorded answers

589 recorded answers

How to approach it

Treat this as a memory sweep rather than a riddle, because nothing in the wording will hand you an entry. Choose a route through the body and hold it: outer coverings and the bony frame first, then the contents of each cavity in turn, then the thin connective sheets and the small midline lumps that people forget. At every stop ask a single question, whether the structure exists once in one person, and jot down the ones that pass even when the term feels obscure. Clean the list only at the end, striking anything you can picture doubled on the other side or repeated at each level. Volume of correct entries matters more than elegance, so keep going until the route is exhausted.

Get a hint

Approach it as an inventory rather than a guess: this category is taught terminology, and the score sits with what a trained anatomist would put in a formal list rather than with the everyday names for regions of the body.

A little more

Filter by symmetry next: whatever appears mirrored on the opposite side drops out at once, which narrows the search to the midline and to single components nested inside systems that otherwise come in twos.

One step further

Then descend one level below whole organs: thin sheets of tissue, fibrous remnants, bony junctions and short spans of a single channel all pass, and the more recondite the catalogue entry feels, the more it tends to earn.

Reveal answers 589
  • Round ligament of the liverOne in a Krillion100points
  • Abdominal aortaDeep Cut85points
  • Abdominal cavityDeep Cut85points
  • Accessory hemiazygos veinDeep Cut85points
  • AdenoidDeep Cut85points
  • Ampulla of VaterDeep Cut85points
  • Anal canalDeep Cut85points
  • Anococcygeal bodyDeep Cut85points
  • Anterior commissureDeep Cut85points
  • Anterior communicating arteryDeep Cut85points
  • Anterior cusp of the pulmonary valveDeep Cut85points
  • Anterior fontanelleDeep Cut85points
  • Anterior interventricular sulcusDeep Cut85points
  • Anterior interventricular veinDeep Cut85points
  • Anterior leaflet of the tricuspid valveDeep Cut85points
  • Anterior lobe of cerebellumDeep Cut85points
  • Anterior longitudinal ligamentDeep Cut85points
  • Anterior mitral leafletDeep Cut85points
  • Anterior pituitaryDeep Cut85points
  • Anterior spinal arteryDeep Cut85points
  • Aortic annulusDeep Cut85points
  • Aortic archDeep Cut85points
  • Aortic orificeDeep Cut85points
  • Aortic rootDeep Cut85points
  • Aortic valveDeep Cut85points
  • Aortomitral curtainDeep Cut85points
  • Apex of the heartDeep Cut85points
  • Arachnoid materDeep Cut85points
  • Arachnoid septumDeep Cut85points
  • Ascending aortaDeep Cut85points
  • Ascending colonDeep Cut85points
  • AtlasDeep Cut85points
  • Atrioventricular nodal arteryDeep Cut85points
  • Atrioventricular nodeDeep Cut85points
  • Atrioventricular septumDeep Cut85points
  • Axial skeletonDeep Cut85points
  • AxisDeep Cut85points
  • Azygos veinDeep Cut85points
  • Bachmann's bundleDeep Cut85points
  • Base of the heartDeep Cut85points
  • Basilar arteryDeep Cut85points
  • Basilar sulcusDeep Cut85points
  • Bifurcation of pulmonary trunkDeep Cut85points
  • Bladder trigoneDeep Cut85points
  • Body of left atriumDeep Cut85points
  • Body of right atriumDeep Cut85points
  • Body of sternumDeep Cut85points
  • Body of the corpus callosumDeep Cut85points
  • Body of the mandibleDeep Cut85points
  • Brachiocephalic arteryDeep Cut85points

Why these answers count

The shape of the result is unusual. Of 587 recorded entries, 557 cleared sixty points, and 496 of those settled at eighty-five, so almost the whole board sits in one comfortable band rather than spreading out. Only one entry climbed to a hundred, which tells you the top was reserved for something that genuinely surprised the compiler rather than for the merely hard to spell. What fills the eighty-five tier is solid, textbook-level naming: major vessels, well-known regions, the structures every introductory course drills. They are correct and singular, but a reader with modest training reaches them in under a minute. The sixty-point group covers entries that were true yet vague, chosen for familiarity rather than precision. The practical reading is that rarity, not obscurity of vocabulary, drives the score: descend into named membranes, fibrous leftovers and tiny midline bodies that rarely appear in a general list, and you separate yourself from the crowded plateau above the middle.

Recorded from the game’s published reveal · Source · Checked 21 Oct, 05:11 UTC

Names and scores reflect the linked dated reveal. The original game makes the final decision on live acceptance. Editorial policy