October 22, 2026, Dive #99, stores 14,820 names. The longest list is “Name a game with a number in its name (sequels and 3D variants don't count)” (5,834 recorded) and the shortest is “Name a country with a five-letter English name” (27). 12,852 score 85 or higher.
Current edition7 questions · 14,820 recorded answersNext edition
14,820 recorded names12,852 at 85 or higher7 questions with an 85+ name
Name a character from Attack on Titan, One Piece or Naruto
3,418 recorded answers
How to approach it
Treat the prompt as a memory test with a depth bonus rather than a trivia question. First, decide which of the three titles you know best, because confidence about spelling and role matters more than obscurity alone. Then walk that series' cast outward in rings: the core team, the antagonists, the mentors, the relatives, the one-arc allies, and finally the walk-ons whose names appear only in credits. Write down three candidates from the outer rings and pick the one you can describe in a sentence, since a name you cannot place is a name you probably misremember. Keep the spelling as credited, avoid fan nicknames, and submit the deepest name you are sure of rather than the strangest one you can invent.
Get a hint
Start with the three titles in the question and accept that each one carries hundreds of credited names, most of them visible only in episode credits or cast listings.
A little more
Move away from the leads and the headline villains: supporting fighters, relatives, crew hands, instructors and allies who appear for a single arc all have names and all count.
One step further
Aim for a figure you can place in one scene, with a name you would only know from a cast list, then check that your spelling matches the credited form before submitting.
Reveal answers 3,418
PandamanOne in a Krillion100points
TontonOne in a Krillion100points
13Deep Cut85points
150Deep Cut85points
A A ADeep Cut85points
A ODeep Cut85points
AbdullahDeep Cut85points
AbelDeep Cut85points
Abel ReissDeep Cut85points
AbiDeep Cut85points
AbiruDeep Cut85points
AccinoDeep Cut85points
Why these answers count
The reveal rewards breadth, not fame. The only two entries at the very top, Pandaman (100) and Tonton (100), are comic side figures that most players would never think to write down, which is exactly why almost nobody did. Beneath them sits an enormous 85-point block of 3040 answers: minor crew members, retainers, exam proctors, clan relatives and one-scene fighters, each submitted by a handful of players. Names such as Aladine (85) and Akatsuchi (85) belong to that tier, and they score high because the field is thin, since a pick shared by a few people cannot be crowded. The 224 answers at 60 points are the ones the crowd reached for first, so they clear the bar but earn less for the same correct work. Obscurity alone is not a strategy, though: a name you cannot spell or place in the story risks dropping into the 62 recorded answers that fell short of the top tier.
Name a job with median annual pay over $100,000 in the US
1,420 recorded answers
How to approach it
The efficient route is to treat the question as a memory dump over occupational wage tables rather than a search for one clever reply. Pick a handful of broad sectors, then walk each one from entry-level titles up through supervisory and specialist tiers, because the median is what matters and the middle of a pay distribution sits higher than most people assume. Write down every title that surfaces, even the awkward compound ones, and keep going until you have several dozen candidates. Then prune: anything paid by the hour with overtime-dependent earnings, or any role whose headline salary is really a top-decile figure, is a weak submission. Breadth first, hesitation last.
Get a hint
Start with the broad families where six-figure medians cluster: licensed professions, engineering and applied science, health care specialties, senior managers, and legal or regulatory roles.
A little more
Go narrower than the household names. The reveal is packed with hyphenated specialties, niche inspectors, program directors and technical leads whose titles almost never come up in ordinary conversation.
One step further
Aim for a title that appears as its own line in official wage statistics, often a field word welded to a role word, and remember that public-sector and utility employers pay these salaries too.
Reveal answers 1,420
Elevator mechanicOne in a Krillion100points
Accelerator OperatorDeep Cut85points
Accreditation ManagerDeep Cut85points
AcousticianDeep Cut85points
Activity Therapy TeacherDeep Cut85points
Administrative law judgeDeep Cut85points
Administrative services managerDeep Cut85points
Admiralty LawyerDeep Cut85points
Adolescent medicine physicianDeep Cut85points
Aerial firefighting pilotDeep Cut85points
Aerial survey pilotDeep Cut85points
AerodynamicistDeep Cut85points
Why these answers count
The scoring is a reminder that this puzzle rewards volume and specificity, not celebrity. Only one recorded answer reached the full 100, which means the reveal's top tier was reserved for a genuinely rare reply; the bulk of the credit sat at 85 for titles that are unusual yet clearly occupational, and at 60 for the merely plausible. Look at the 85-point band and a pattern appears: narrow compound titles such as Accelerator Operator, Accreditation Manager or Acoustician, plus institutional posts like Bureau Chief or Campus Director. These are real jobs with real payroll data behind them, but almost nobody names them at a party, so the crowd-sourced rarity score stays high. Familiar six-figure staples presumably clustered so densely that they fell to the lower bands, since a title everyone types is worth little. The practical lesson: one odd, verifiable specialty outscores a page of obvious ones.
Name a game with a number in its name (sequels and 3D variants don't count)
5,834 recorded answers
How to approach it
Start by compiling a long, unfiltered list rather than settling on the first title that comes to mind, sweeping across tabletop boxes, card and dice games, wargames, arcade machines, computer releases, mobile puzzles and party games. For every candidate, locate the numeral precisely: it may open the title, appear as a written word, an ordinal, a year-like string or a quantity attached to a subtitle. Then apply the exclusions strictly, dropping anything that is merely the second or later instalment of an existing property and anything whose only change is a three-dimensional label. Once the list is clean, rank by rarity, since well-known titles are safe but cheap while odd imports, small-press simulations and forgotten budget software carry the real value. Submit the rarest title you can defend.
Get a hint
Cast your memory across every shelf and screen you can picture, because the numbered titles that score live in tabletop boxes, cabinets, cartridges and app stores alike.
A little more
Pin down where the digit sits — a leading numeral, a written word, an ordinal, a year-like string or a count bundled with a subtitle — and confirm it belongs to the base name, not to a follow-up.
One step further
Rarity drives the payout, so ignore the crowded multi-entry franchises and reach for imports, short print runs, budget releases and one-off curiosities that few players could name.
Reveal answers 5,834
PachisiOne in a Krillion100points
-Making*Lovers- First BlushDeep Cut85points
.45 Parabellum BloodhoundDeep Cut85points
'65: Squad-Level Combat in the Jungles of VietnamDeep Cut85points
'85 Afghanistan: Graveyard of EmpiresDeep Cut85points
'90s Super GPDeep Cut85points
'96 Flag RallyDeep Cut85points
'99: The Last WarDeep Cut85points
'CA' Tactical Naval Warfare in the Pacific, 1941-45Deep Cut85points
'Wacht am Rhein': The Battle of the Bulge, 16 Dec 44 – 2 Jan 45Deep Cut85points
The reveal's top band of roughly six thousand entries consists almost entirely of titles nobody would volunteer quickly: obscure wargames, imported curiosities and forgotten budget software. Only one answer, Pachisi, reached 100 points, and it is a traditional board game whose connection to a number is etymological rather than printed on the box, which explains why so few players produced it. The bulk of the band, among them 0 A.D. and 10 Days in Europe, settled at 85, the ceiling for an answer that is rare without being a true outlier. Just 198 answers across the whole top band fell to 60, meaning those titles were familiar enough to be shared by a sizeable group. That shape shows the scoring rewards surprise above all: a much-loved numbered sports or shooting franchise is easy to recall, so thousands recall it and the payout collapses. A title that demands genuine digging pays precisely because the pool of people able to produce it is tiny.
Treat the suffix as a pattern rather than a meaning: every candidate is a prefix plus the same six-letter tail, so the productive move is to generate prefixes and test them. Begin with domains that institutionalise naming — clinical imaging, laboratory analysis, print and reproduction crafts, the earth and social sciences — and for each, run through the objects, instruments and processes that specialists describe. Say the compound aloud; if it sounds like something a textbook would use, it probably exists. Keep a running list and check spelling before committing, since near-misses are the main way points are lost. Breadth beats depth: the list is long, so the quantity of plausible coinages matters more than polish on any single one.
Get a hint
Start with the largest family: the Greek-derived words for writing, drawing and recording. Medical and scientific imaging alone has produced hundreds of them, and each sub-specialty tends to coin its own.
A little more
Move outward to the older, craftier end of the list: printing and reproduction techniques, the tracing of routes and surfaces, the study of written forms by hand, and the description of populations or of the body's interior.
One step further
Then hunt for compounds: a prefix naming the object, the organ, the instrument or the medium, welded to the suffix. The longer and more technical the compound sounds, the more likely it is already on the list.
Reveal answers 1,722
SteganographyOne in a Krillion100points
Abdominal radiographyDeep Cut85points
Abdominal ultrasonographyDeep Cut85points
AcceleromyographyDeep Cut85points
Acoustic holographyDeep Cut85points
Acoustic tomographyDeep Cut85points
Acoustical oceanographyDeep Cut85points
AcoustocerebrographyDeep Cut85points
AcoustographyDeep Cut85points
AcrographyDeep Cut85points
ActigraphyDeep Cut85points
ActinographyDeep Cut85points
Why these answers count
The scoring rewarded two different instincts. The single hundred-point answer, steganography, is the clever one: it hides rather than describes, and almost nobody thinks of it because the suffix feels like it belongs to imaging. Everything else clustered at eighty-five, and the pattern there is specificity. Abdominal radiography and abdominal ultrasonography both scored eighty-five not because they are obscure but because they are precise: organ plus technique, the shape a working clinician would actually write. Bare, familiar words — the everyday terms for map-making or handwriting study — were pushed down to sixty, since a thousand players reach for them in the first minute. The distribution is the lesson: with more than seventeen hundred recorded answers, the list is effectively inexhaustible, so the marginal value lies in compounds rather than in cleverness. Rare picks earn more because the scoring rewards distance from the obvious, and a long technical compound is the cheapest way to buy that distance.
Work region by region, because recall stalls when you search an undifferentiated list of nearly two hundred states. Take one continent at a time and enumerate every name you can produce, writing them down so nothing doubles back. Then apply the letter count as a mechanical filter, marking each candidate and discarding anything that runs long, splits into two words, or needs an abbreviation. The shortlist is usually longer than expected, and the puzzle rewards volume, so push past the first two or three names that come to mind and keep going until each region is exhausted. Finally, verify spelling rather than trusting memory, since plenty of familiar short names hide an extra letter or drop one, and favor the least obvious entries, because rarity is what scores.
Get a hint
Begin at the scale of the whole planet and sort the map by region rather than by memory; entire continents offer several candidates once you start counting letters.
A little more
Now impose the letter count as a filter: write out short names you can recall and delete every one that runs to four, six or more characters.
One step further
Finish by checking survivors against an index: some familiar short names carry a hidden extra letter, others are shorter than memory suggests.
Reveal answers 27
NauruOne in a Krillion100points
BeninDeep Cut85points
GabonDeep Cut85points
PalauDeep Cut85points
TongaDeep Cut85points
BurmaRare60points
LibyaRare60points
MaltaRare60points
NigerRare60points
QatarRare60points
SamoaRare60points
SudanRare60points
Why these answers count
Scoring here tracks how quickly a name comes to mind for the crowd, and the spread across the 27 recorded answers shows it plainly. The 100-point entry, Nauru, is a country most players cannot place on a map at all, so almost nobody wrote it first; Benin, Gabon, Palau and Tonga followed at 85, familiar enough to be recalled by some solvers but rarely the first name on anyone's list. The ten answers at 60, Burma, Libya, Malta, Niger, Qatar, Samoa, Sudan, Syria, Wales and Yemen, are the routine picks, the ones that surface within seconds and therefore get shared by a large slice of players, which caps their value. Twelve further entries fell below that line and their scores are not listed, so the visible pattern is really about distance from the obvious rather than obscurity for its own sake. The practical lesson: the common short names are the floor, not the ceiling, and a solver who pushes past the obvious handful will usually beat one who stops at the first name that fits.
Work outward from the plainest reading of the prompt. Begin with the everyday problems most people would say first, because the scoring rewards volume as much as novelty: even familiar entries count, and a long list beats one clever pick. Then move through the media one at a time, the air, fresh water, the sea, the soil, the built environment, and ask what damages each. After that, switch from substances to processes: slow changes in chemistry, climate, hydrology and living communities. Finish with the specialist's shelf: industrial by-products, trace contaminants, habitat-specific disruptions and cross-border waste. Rarity is what separates the upper tier, so keep going past the obvious until the list runs dry, and write each answer as a short noun phrase.
Get a hint
Start with the medium that carries the harm: what we breathe, what we drink, what grows our food, and the living communities that hold those systems together.
A little more
Then push toward processes rather than substances: shifts in temperature, chemistry, water levels or species composition that unfold over decades and resist easy reversal.
One step further
Finally, go narrow and technical, the way a specialist would: contamination at trace concentrations, waste from a single industry, or damage confined to one kind of habitat.
Reveal answers 245
Nurdle pollutionOne in a Krillion100points
Acid mine drainageDeep Cut85points
Ammonia pollutionDeep Cut85points
AMOC weakeningDeep Cut85points
Amphibian declineDeep Cut85points
Antimicrobial resistance in the environmentDeep Cut85points
Aquaculture pollutionDeep Cut85points
Arctic amplificationDeep Cut85points
Arsenic contaminationDeep Cut85points
Aviation emissionsDeep Cut85points
Ballast water dischargeDeep Cut85points
Bark beetle infestationDeep Cut85points
Why these answers count
The scoring is a popularity curve turned upside down. Familiar, broad entries, the ones a hundred players type at once, settle near the bottom of the band, while specificity pulls an answer upward. That is why a single industrial by-product named precisely, nurdle pollution, sat alone at 100 points, and why the long 85-point shelf is crowded with answers that a general reader would not reach in the first minute: acid mine drainage, ammonia pollution, fatbergs, ghost nets. These are still recognisable problems, not obscure jargon; they simply require one extra step of recall. Answers that stopped at the level of a whole medium or a general trend scored lower because hundreds of players found them, so the reveal had already spent their novelty. The practical lesson is that the grader rewards a narrow label on a real phenomenon far more than a sweeping one, and that a specific mechanism or waste stream is worth more than the category it belongs to.
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