October 23, 2026, Dive #100, stores 11,137 names. The longest list is “Name a rap song with over 100 million Spotify streams.” (5,544 recorded) and the shortest is “Name an animal that sprays, spits or squirts something to defend itself.” (105). 9,583 score 85 or higher.
Current edition7 questions · 11,137 recorded answersNext edition
11,137 recorded names9,583 at 85 or higher7 questions with an 85+ name
Name a branded fast-food menu item (like the Big Mac).
2,351 recorded answers
How to approach it
A good way in is to sweep the menu by category instead of trying to recall one perfect name. Run through burgers first, then chicken sandwiches, then breakfast, sides, desserts and drinks, and for each category ask which items have a proper name printed on the board rather than a description. Big international chains will fill the obvious slots quickly; the value comes from pushing into regional chains, seasonal promotions and discontinued items, because the scoring rewards names that most players cannot reach. Keep every candidate that is officially trademarked by a chain, however odd it sounds, and drop anything you would have to describe rather than name. Writing a long, varied list beats polishing a short one.
Get a hint
Start with the big global chains and work through their signature sandwiches, sides and desserts; the names are usually trademarked and repeated across dozens of countries.
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Then widen to regional chains and to coffee, chicken, taco and ice-cream brands, whose menus are packed with named combos, floats and baked goods that never appear in advertising abroad.
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Finally, think about limited-edition and anniversary items, plus the odd in-joke name a chain used once; these are the ones most players forget, and they sit at the very top of the scoring band.
Reveal answers 2,351
Hula BurgerOne in a Krillion100points
'Shroom BurgerDeep Cut85points
1921 SliderDeep Cut85points
1955 BurgerDeep Cut85points
280 OriginalDeep Cut85points
3 Guys milk teaDeep Cut85points
3 Meat TreatDeep Cut85points
5 Alarm BurritoDeep Cut85points
5 Meat FeastDeep Cut85points
5 Mega Meat StackDeep Cut85points
7 EnergyDeep Cut85points
8 Corner PizzaDeep Cut85points
Why these answers count
The reveal lists 2334 answers, and the shape of it is telling: 2302 cleared the 60-point bar, one reached 100, and 2106 landed on 85. Almost everyone who guessed a real, officially named item banked the same band, so the gap between a solid answer and a great one is rarity rather than correctness. The lone 100-pointer, Hula Burger, sits apart because it is a half-remembered experiment rather than a current menu staple. The crowded 85-point shelf holds everything from 'Shroom Burger to 1921 Slider and 1955 Burger, names that are genuinely printed on menus somewhere but that few players outside that market would ever produce. Lower-scoring replies were usually accurate descriptions rather than official names, or so generic that thousands of others wrote the same thing. Rarer picks earn more because the scoring rewards the answer a crowd cannot easily reach for.
Name an animal that sprays, spits or squirts something to defend itself.
105 recorded answers
How to approach it
The productive way in is to build a long list before judging any of it. Work habitat by habitat — shoreline, open water, forest floor, canopy, dry scrub — and for each one ask who is slow, soft-bodied or unable to run away, since those are the creatures that need a ranged deterrent. Then test every candidate against the three verbs in the question: does it actually expel something, is the release defensive rather than a way of catching food, and is the substance produced or stored by the animal itself? Keep a written tally, because the same handful of names will keep surfacing and crowd out the strange ones. Finally, rank what survives by how rarely you have seen it discussed, and submit the least familiar plausible option alongside safer ones.
Get a hint
Start with the sheer breadth of defensive chemistry: it appears in wet, dry, cold and tropical habitats alike, so the answer pool is far wider than the handful of famous cases most people recall.
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Focus on delivery rather than chemistry: a pressurised jet, a fine mist, a glued mass and a foaming regurgitation are all versions of the same trick performed by very different body plans.
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Trim by scale and habitat last: set large grazing mammals beside thumbnail-sized soil dwellers, and keep in mind that certain ocean-going birds and buried shoreline animals rely on the very same tactic.
Reveal answers 105
Pygmy sperm whaleOne in a Krillion100points
African striped weaselDeep Cut85points
AlbatrossDeep Cut85points
Amazon antDeep Cut85points
Armoured cricketDeep Cut85points
Atlas moth caterpillarDeep Cut85points
Bald-faced hornetDeep Cut85points
Black skimmerDeep Cut85points
Bronze orange bugDeep Cut85points
Chameleon geckoDeep Cut85points
ChinchemolleDeep Cut85points
Coconut stick insectDeep Cut85points
Why these answers count
A single answer topped the board at 100 points: the pygmy sperm whale, a pick so unexpected that almost no one in the sample reached for it. Everything else in the high band settles at 85, and the spread of those names is the real lesson — an African striped weasel (85) sits beside an Atlas moth caterpillar (85), a geoduck (85) beside a chameleon gecko (85), which tells you the reveal rewards breadth rather than depth in any single branch. The 60-point tier is where the dependable, instantly recallable picks land: correct, easy to justify and chosen by so many players that their value falls. Twenty-three answers share that lower band against seventy-six at 85, so the curve is dense in the middle and thin at the very top. The practical takeaway is to treat the first three names that come to mind as warm-ups, then keep pushing into orders and habitats you have not used yet, because the scoring pays for the odd, half-remembered creature that nobody else trusts themselves to write down.
Treat the prompt as a vocabulary retrieval task rather than a definition task. Begin by listing the words a school syllabus attaches to drawn figures, then push into the terminology used by competitive mathematics and specialist reference works, where nearly every classical configuration has been given its own label. Read the judging rules carefully: the target is a component of a figure, so whole-figure names, measurements expressed as formulas, and playful inventions all fall outside. From your list, keep the entries you can defend in one clause — a label a textbook would print beside a diagram. Rank what remains by how unusual it is, because the scoring rewards the deepest cut of the specialist glossary over the half-dozen words every solver will produce. Submit the rarest term you can define correctly.
Get a hint
Geometry keeps a separate vocabulary for the anatomy of figures — the labels printed next to a diagram, not the names of the figures themselves. Start with whatever a school textbook circles in ink.
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Widen past the obvious: the vocabulary runs from simple measurable features of circles and solids to the elaborate named points and reference lines that specialist literature attaches to a single figure.
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Go hunting through glossary entries, diagram keys and index pages of advanced geometry, then choose the term whose obscurity matches how rarely a casual solver would reach for it.
Reveal answers 251
SagittaOne in a Krillion100points
Acamar pointDeep Cut85points
Ajima-Malfatti pointDeep Cut85points
Angle of a segmentDeep Cut85points
Angle trisectorDeep Cut85points
AnticenterDeep Cut85points
Antiorthic axisDeep Cut85points
AntipodeDeep Cut85points
ApertureDeep Cut85points
Apollonius pointDeep Cut85points
ApothemDeep Cut85points
ApsisDeep Cut85points
Why these answers count
Scoring here tracks rarity within the accepted set, and the spread is unusually flat: of 249 recorded answers, 228 cleared the top band, with 201 landing on 85 points and only 26 on 60. The single 100-point answer, Sagitta, is the height of a circular arc measured from chord to curve, a term that lives in surveying and drafting rather than school revision, so almost nobody reaches it first. The 85-point band is the deep shelf of the subject: Apothem, Circumcenter, Inradius, Dihedral angle — terms a strong student recognises but a casual solver never volunteers. The 60-point group is the crowded middle, the handful of features anyone can name in ten seconds, which the grading treats as necessary but unremarkable. Practical reading: length is not what pays, obscurity plus defensibility is. A two-word phrase no one else thought of beats a correct but obvious one by a wide margin, and the one outlier at the top shows how far that logic stretches.
Name an upper-body gym exercise (strength exercises only; no full-body moves).
613 recorded answers
How to approach it
There is no shortcut here beyond enumerating systematically and then refining. Take the main patterns one at a time: pushing away from the chest, pressing overhead, pulling down or toward the body, raising the arms sideways or forward, bending the elbow, and gripping or hanging. For each pattern, walk through body positions, hand orientations, equipment types, tempos and ranges of motion, and write down every combination that a coach would recognise as its own named movement. Then push into the specialist vocabularies of gymnastics, calisthenics, strongman training and rehabilitation, where variations carry long descriptive labels. Keep the pace quick and write freely first; pruning obvious full-body entries is far easier than trying to judge each idea before it is written down.
Get a hint
Start with the big movement families people learn first: pressing something away from the torso, pulling something toward it, and lifting a weight through a bent arm.
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Then widen to support and hold positions, where the body stays still on straight arms, hangs from a bar or braces on the hands, since those count as strength work rather than stretching.
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Finally, drill into the technical and niche names lifters, gymnasts and calisthenics athletes use for variations of those patterns, because long and unusual labels are exactly what this list rewards.
Reveal answers 613
Bradford pressOne in a Krillion100points
360 pullDeep Cut85points
360 push-upDeep Cut85points
4-way neckDeep Cut85points
6-way raiseDeep Cut85points
90-degree front lever raiseDeep Cut85points
90-degree push-upDeep Cut85points
Ab coasterDeep Cut85points
Ab slideDeep Cut85points
Abdominal hip rollDeep Cut85points
Abdominal pendulumDeep Cut85points
Active hangDeep Cut85points
Why these answers count
Scoring on this kind of list tracks how ordinary a name is. The single hundred-point entry is the one the widest slice of solvers reached, while the enormous middle band sitting at eighty-five is where most competent, specific answers land: names such as Archer dip, Axle press, Batwing row or Bradford press are all recognisable to someone who trains, yet none of them is the first phrase a casual respondent types. The sixty-point tier holds picks that are real but narrower or more apparatus-dependent, so fewer people converge on them. Rarity pays because the reveal scores a name by how few respondents matched it, which means the exotic end of the vocabulary is where the upside sits: a long, technical label describing an unusual grip, angle or support has almost no competition. The trade-off is risk, since an invented or misremembered name scores nothing at all, so the practical target is genuine but obscure rather than merely strange.
Treat this as a memory test with a scoring twist rather than a knowledge test. First, confirm the platform boundary: home console, official releases only, so spin-offs, ports and budget lines remain fair game while anything from a handheld or a rival machine is out. Then build a shortlist from several angles instead of one: licensed film tie-ins, fitness programmes, party compilations, quiz and music packs, children's licences, regional localisations. Rank your candidates by how often you hear them discussed; the ones that come to mind instantly are the ones the crowd will also reach, and they are the weakest scoring choices. Deliberately steer toward the titles you only half remember, because obscurity, not prestige, is what pays here.
Get a hint
Start with the console's physical media aisle as a whole: hundreds of licensed titles shipped alongside the handful everyone remembers, and the shelf was far wider than the marketing suggested.
A little more
Narrow by publisher type rather than by fame: film and television tie-ins, fitness programmes, party collections, quiz and karaoke packs and children's licences filled out most of the release schedule.
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Push toward the margins where few players look: multi-game bundles, regional exclusives and editions released in a single market are still legitimate, and they tend to be the least crowded picks.
Reveal answers 2,077
Captain RainbowOne in a Krillion100points
"Aha! I Found It!" Hidden Object GameDeep Cut85points
"Aha! I Got It!" Escape GameDeep Cut85points
007: Quantum of SolaceDeep Cut85points
10 Minute SolutionDeep Cut85points
101-in-1 Explosive MegamixDeep Cut85points
101-in-1 Party MegamixDeep Cut85points
101-in-1 Sports Party MegamixDeep Cut85points
2 Fast 4 GnomzDeep Cut85points
2 in 1: Meine Tierpension + Meine TiersprechstundeDeep Cut85points
2 in 1: Pony Friends 2 + My Riding Stables: Life with HorsesDeep Cut85points
2010 FIFA World Cup South AfricaDeep Cut85points
Why these answers count
The reveal is close to a flat plateau, and that shape tells you how to play it. Of 2,077 accepted titles, 2,062 cleared sixty points, and 1,847 of those sat at eighty-five: once a pick was valid and not the most obvious thing in the room, it earned the same reward as almost everything else. Only 214 entries dropped to sixty, and those are the picks a casual player reaches for first, the console's flagship hits, named by nearly everyone. A mere fifteen fell below the threshold. At the other end, a single answer reached one hundred: Captain Rainbow, a cult release so far off the beaten path that almost nobody could have named it, and it stands alone at the top. The lesson is that the middle is wide and cheap to reach: licensed oddities such as Active Life: Explorer (85) or 101-in-1 Party Megamix (85) cost nothing relative to a famous title and pay twenty-five points more. Aim for the half-remembered shelf, not the marquee.
Name a rap song with over 100 million Spotify streams.
5,544 recorded answers
How to approach it
Let eras and lanes organise your recall, not a chart. Bring to mind the biggest names and give each one or two signature tracks; that covers the obvious ground quickly. Branch next into narrower clusters: upbeat club material, melancholic melodic cuts, imports from other markets, and songs that a trailer or a short clip pushed everywhere. Within each cluster, weigh whether the track plausibly cleared the threshold, since most singles from prominent projects did. Resist hunting something hyper-obscure just to look clever; the scoring favours a recognisable, well-liked pick over a gamble. Weigh the tag as well, because a sung or genre-blurred track still qualifies if the platform files it as rap. When two candidates look equally likely, take the slightly less obvious one.
Get a hint
Give each decade a turn: the streaming boom pushed whole regional scenes and bedroom recordings into global totals, so every era holds a valid pick.
A little more
Narrow by lane next: upbeat club material, sad melodic cuts, scenes from other markets and clip-driven smashes each rest on deep catalogues that cleared the threshold.
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When a title feels obscure, ask whether a remix, a viral clip or constant playlist placement carried it past the mark; plenty of modest album cuts got there quietly.
Reveal answers 5,544
Above The CloudsOne in a Krillion100points
¿CÓMO TE VA, QUERIDA?Deep Cut85points
¿Quién Te Crees?Deep Cut85points
¿Quien Tu Eres?Deep Cut85points
...And to Those I Love, Thanks for Sticking AroundDeep Cut85points
(Rock) SuperstarDeep Cut85points
<3Deep Cut85points
= (Equal Sign)Deep Cut85points
$$$ (XXXTentacion & Matt Ox)Deep Cut85points
$outh $ide $uicideDeep Cut85points
0 SentimientosDeep Cut85points
02.02.99Deep Cut85points
Why these answers count
The reveal is lopsided: a single entry reached the 100-point tier, 4730 correct titles settled at 85, and a tail of 717 fell to 60. That shape suggests a lenient test of validity and a stingy summit. Deep cuts whose titles carry a figure, such as '10 Bands', '16 Lines' and '100 Racks', sit comfortably in the 85 band: recognisable enough to make the official list, yet not the first thing thousands of players typed. The lone 100-point pick, 'Above The Clouds', shows the ceiling opens for the title almost nobody submitted. The 60-point bucket reads as the price of playing too safe, because the obvious picks get logged by so many entrants that the reward flattens. The lesson is not to hunt obscurity for its own sake, but to step one place past your first instinct: the second or third track you associate with an act is usually where the extra points live.
Name a machine traditionally operated by inserting coins.
196 recorded answers
How to approach it
Work by venue and by verb at the same time. Picture settings where you have stood and paid something small: a station platform, a shopping arcade, a launderette, a campsite shower block, a roadside stop, a pub with a back room. In each, ask what the coin actually released — a lock, a timer, a motor, a light, a portion. That question produces the mechanism rather than the object, and the mechanism is what you then dress in nouns. Keep wording at the level of function, since descriptions outscore trademarks. Then deliberately widen past entertainment into utility, comfort and retail, and finally into the obsolete: anything retired, regional or slightly absurd is fair game and usually rarer than the obvious choice.
Get a hint
Fix the shape of the target first: a small payment buys a slice of time or a measured portion, and from there the device works on its own.
A little more
Add function verbs one at a time — dispensing, timing, weighing, washing, heating, lighting, moving, playing, photographing — and let each verb suggest a different apparatus.
One step further
Push into the retired and the peculiar: fairground novelties, one-off contraptions and devices whose slot has since been swapped for a card reader all count.
Almost two hundred entries were accepted, so the point spread measures inventiveness far more than correctness. The lone 100-point entry was a named novelty device made on the spot at a single attraction, so particular that virtually nobody else could have landed on the same wording. The wide 85-point band sits in the productive middle: utility variants, timed appliances, devices releasing very specific goods, coin-activated services attached to odd venues. Each describes something verifiable and unmistakable, yet few enough players thought of it that duplication stayed rare. The 60-point group rewards the answers that arrive first — the famous entertainments and the widely known service machines that hundreds of people type within the same minute. Nothing about those is wrong; they are simply common, and popularity is exactly what the scoring penalises. The practical lesson is that specificity and mild strangeness beat fame: a retired, regional or oddly narrow device separates you from the crowd, while the household-name example only confirms what everyone already wrote.
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