Name a vehicle that doesn't travel on wheels

October 21, 2026 · Daily Dive #98

Explore 1,186 recorded answers and their points for question 4 on October 21, 2026.

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1,186 recorded names on October 21, 2026, 1,023 at 85 or higher. The highest recorded score on this question is 100.

Anything that carries people or cargo counts, so fan out across water, air, ice and hover rather than stopping at the road. Count only craft whose normal mode of travel never involves rolling on tyres or road wheels; a machine that crawls on tracks or rides a cushion of air is fine, one that drives is not.

1,186 recorded answers1,023 at 85+ points100 highest recorded points
  • One in a Krillion2100 pts
  • Deep Cut1,02185 pts
  • Rare13260 pts
  • Schooler2730 pts
  • Plankton410 pts
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Recorded answers

1,186 recorded answers

How to approach it

Treat the prompt as an invitation to enumerate, not to guess a single clever example. Sketch five or six broad families first — things that float, things that fly, things that crawl on tracks, things that slide on ice, and things that ride a cushion of air — then open each family into the sub-types you can actually name. The scoring rewards specificity: a plain everyday word competes with everyone else's plain everyday word, while a precise technical or regional term lands in a sparser pool. Give yourself a time budget, write down every candidate without judging it, and only afterwards cut the ones that secretly roll. Volume matters here as much as novelty, so keep going until the list stops growing.

Get a hint

Start with the largest families of conveyances and ask how each one stays supported: on water, in the air, on ice, on tracks, or on a cushion of something other than rubber.

A little more

Once a family comes to mind, list the named variants inside it instead of the everyday word, because specialised types are what the reveal rewards.

One step further

Work through the vocabulary of trades and public services — catching, carrying, digging, charting, guarding, saving, studying — since each trade coined its own named craft.

Reveal answers 1,186
  • PünteDeep Cut85points
  • PuparinDeep Cut85points
  • Pusher aircraftDeep Cut85points
  • Q-shipDeep Cut85points
  • QuadriremeDeep Cut85points
  • QuadruplaneDeep Cut85points
  • QuffaDeep Cut85points
  • QuinqueremeDeep Cut85points
  • RabeloDeep Cut85points
  • Race-built galleonDeep Cut85points
  • Racing aircraftDeep Cut85points
  • Racing sailboatDeep Cut85points
  • Racing shellDeep Cut85points
  • RafiotDeep Cut85points
  • Ramped cargo lighterDeep Cut85points
  • Rangeley boatDeep Cut85points
  • RazeeDeep Cut85points
  • Reaction ferryDeep Cut85points
  • Recreational trawlerDeep Cut85points
  • Red seal shipDeep Cut85points
  • Reed boatDeep Cut85points
  • ReedlighterDeep Cut85points
  • Reefer shipDeep Cut85points
  • Regional jetDeep Cut85points
  • Reindeer sledDeep Cut85points
  • Remotely operated vehicleDeep Cut85points
  • Repair shipDeep Cut85points
  • Research vesselDeep Cut85points
  • Revenue cutterDeep Cut85points
  • Rigid inflatable boatDeep Cut85points
  • River arkDeep Cut85points
  • River cruise shipDeep Cut85points
  • Ro-ro shipDeep Cut85points
  • Rock-dumping vesselDeep Cut85points
  • Rocket gliderDeep Cut85points
  • Rocket planeDeep Cut85points
  • Rocket sledDeep Cut85points
  • Rocket vesselDeep Cut85points
  • Rodney boatDeep Cut85points
  • Rotor kiteDeep Cut85points
  • Rotor shipDeep Cut85points
  • Row galleyDeep Cut85points
  • Royal bargeDeep Cut85points
  • Royal yachtDeep Cut85points
  • Rozière balloonDeep Cut85points
  • Rum runnerDeep Cut85points
  • RunaboutDeep Cut85points
  • SabaniDeep Cut85points
  • Sailing dinghyDeep Cut85points
  • SakmanDeep Cut85points

Why these answers count

The reveal is enormous — over a thousand entries — and almost all of the accepted answers sit in one flat band at 85 points, which tells you the grader treated the field as a catalogue rather than a shortlist. That band is stuffed with named hull types, from working craft such as Anchor handling tug and Aquatic weed harvester to historic rigs like Balinger and Baghlah, alongside flying machines such as Aerobatic aircraft and AWACS. Because so many of these were recorded, any single one of them earns a solid but unremarkable score. The 60-point tier held 132 answers, presumably the more obvious picks that a broad share of players reached first. Only two entries broke away at 100: Ground-effect vehicle and Iceboat, both accepted yet rarely volunteered. The lesson is that obscurity pays only at the margin — a specialised term inside a well-populated family beats a common word, while the very rarest accepted answers are worth double.

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