October 25, 2026, Dive #102, stores 13,606 names. The longest list is “Name a TV comedy (tagged Comedy on IMDb, 1,000+ votes)” (4,844 recorded) and the shortest is “Name a country with a desert climate (in any part of it)” (70). 10,765 score 85 or higher.
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13,606 recorded names10,765 at 85 or higher7 questions with an 85+ name
Work from the general to the particular rather than stopping at the first word that comes to mind. Map the territory first: domestic rooms, hospitality, healthcare, travel and transport, outdoor sleeping, children's furniture, and traditional craft from every continent. For each setting, ask what a named variant would look like — how it is built, how it is sized, how it is packed away, who uses it. Then commit to the most precise term you can defend, because specificity is what separates a strong entry from a weak one. If two candidates feel equally good, prefer the one you could describe in a single concrete sentence. Keep a short reserve list so you can switch quickly rather than freeze on one guess.
Get a hint
Start with the room itself and work outward: the thing you sleep on has thousands of named variants across homes, hotels, hospitals, ships and vehicles.
A little more
Narrow by asking what makes one version different from another — its frame, its footprint, how it folds, how many people it holds, or what is stuffed inside it.
One step further
Then push past the everyday word into specialist territory: standardised size labels, regional craft names and fittings built for institutions or transport all belong to the same family.
Reveal answers 294
BabuchuangOne in a Krillion100points
Adjustable air bedDeep Cut85points
Air-fluidized bedDeep Cut85points
Alaskan kingDeep Cut85points
Alberta kingDeep Cut85points
Alcove bedDeep Cut85points
AlgaDeep Cut85points
Ambassador bedDeep Cut85points
Ancient Egyptian bedDeep Cut85points
AngarebDeep Cut85points
Antique singleDeep Cut85points
Asymmetrical hammockDeep Cut85points
Why these answers count
The reveal shows how wide this category really is: 282 recorded answers, with 252 of them reaching the top band. Almost all of that strength sat in one place — 191 answers scored 85 — which tells you the players were not guessing blindly but reaching for precise, well-formed names. That middle tier rewarded specificity of almost any kind: a measurable size variant such as Full XL (85) or Alaskan king (85), a technical healthcare product such as Air-fluidized bed (85), a hammock form such as Brazilian hammock (85), or a regional piece such as Angareb (85). Each of those is a real, distinct thing, and each earned the same score, so the judges were not ranking obscurity within the band. The single 100-point answer, Babuchuang (100), sits outside the anglophone mainstream entirely, which is why it stood alone: one player produced a term the rest of the field could not reach. Sixty answers settled at 60, still respectable but a step down. The lesson is that breadth of vocabulary, not cleverness, was the winning skill.
Name a food or ingredient that costs over US$100/kg ($45/lb), like caviar
419 recorded answers
How to approach it
Work backwards from price mechanics instead of trying to recall a famous luxury item. Anything selling in grams, sachets or single pieces can clear the threshold once you scale it to a kilogram, so scan the whole shop in your head: spice racks, cheese counters, butchers, fishmongers, tea merchants, health-food shelves and bakery supplies all hide candidates. For each category, ask what limits supply — a brief season, protected origin rules, a slow-growing animal, hand harvesting, long ageing or a plant that only thrives in one climate. Then check the arithmetic: a product at twenty dollars per hundred grams already qualifies. Rarity of the pick matters too, because a widely known luxury is likely to be named by thousands of players, while a homely-sounding regional speciality may be recorded by very few.
Get a hint
Start from the aisle rather than the recipe: consider categories sold in tiny quantities, such as precious spices, rare fungi, long-aged cheeses, cured meats, seafood delicacies or exotic fruit.
A little more
Weight is the great equaliser here — a jar that looks affordable at twenty grams becomes eye-watering once you scale that price up to a full kilogram.
One step further
Narrow the field by asking what creates the shortage: a harvest window of a few weeks, a protected origin, an animal that yields only a few grams, or a process measured in years.
Reveal answers 419
HasmaOne in a Krillion100points
7 Pot pepperDeep Cut85points
A2 bilona gheeDeep Cut85points
Acai powderDeep Cut85points
Agar agarDeep Cut85points
Agaricus blazeiDeep Cut85points
Aged Xinhui chenpiDeep Cut85points
Almas caviarDeep Cut85points
Almond extractDeep Cut85points
AmaebiDeep Cut85points
Amylase enzymeDeep Cut85points
AngulasDeep Cut85points
Why these answers count
Scoring rewards precision and surprise in equal measure. The single hundred-point answer in the reveal was Hasma, a pick so obscure that almost nobody else would have thought of it, and that uniqueness is exactly what the top band pays for. The vast 85-point block sits one step below: Almas caviar, Bianchetto truffle, Anzer honey, Bitto Storico, Bourbon Pointu coffee, Cecina de León and dozens of similar entries are all legitimately over the line, but each is famous enough within food circles that many players land on it, so the shared credit is slightly diluted. At sixty points you find the obvious crowd-pleasers — the luxury items a casual player reaches for first, where the answer is correct yet the queue behind it is long. The lesson for anyone playing: a humble-sounding regional product with a protected name or a brutal harvest window will usually outscore a globally advertised delicacy, because correctness gets you on the board and rarity moves you up it.
Name a song that has reached number one on the Billboard Hot 100
1,175 recorded answers
How to approach it
The productive route is to sweep decade by decade rather than free-associate, because sixty-odd years of chart history are unevenly stocked in memory. Begin with the eras whose hits get heavy recurrent airplay, write down four or five titles for each, then push into corners most players skip: novelty records, soundtrack themes, disco one-offs, country crossovers and foreign-language smashes. Rarity pays, so a title that feels faintly embarrassing or half-forgotten usually outscores an obvious classic. Verify each candidate against the chart's actual rules, because a song that only led a separate sales or airplay tally does not count. Keep a running list and send the strangest qualifying title first.
Get a hint
Cast your net across the entire post-war era of chart history instead of the handful of decades you know by heart, because every period of the survey contributes qualifying titles.
A little more
Then lean on the styles that fill year-end retrospectives: dance fads, film themes, country crossovers and grand ballads, all of which produced chart-toppers with surprising regularity.
One step further
Finally check the fussy clerical details, since duet credits, medleys, remixed versions and titles wrapped in brackets routinely reached the summit and slip past anyone listing in a hurry.
Reveal answers 1,175
SukiyakiOne in a Krillion100points
(Can't Live Without Your) Love and AffectionDeep Cut85points
(Hey Won't You Play) Another Somebody Done Somebody Wrong SongDeep Cut85points
(Just Like) Starting OverDeep Cut85points
(Love Is) Thicker Than WaterDeep Cut85points
(You're My) Soul and InspirationDeep Cut85points
(You're) Having My BabyDeep Cut85points
3Deep Cut85points
4 Seasons of LonelinessDeep Cut85points
4x4Deep Cut85points
96 TearsDeep Cut85points
A Big Hunk o' LoveDeep Cut85points
Why these answers count
Scoring here tracks obscurity rather than fame, and the reveal makes that plain. Sing-along staples everyone knows sit at the floor of sixty points, while titles most players could not hum climb to eighty-five: Sukiyaki took the full hundred, and a long parenthetical such as (Hey Won't You Play) Another Somebody Done Somebody Wrong Song banked eighty-five simply because hardly anyone retrieves it in time. Two instincts get rewarded. One is digging into the late fifties and early sixties, where titles are short, odd and half-forgotten. The other is trusting memory for awkward full names with brackets, subtitles or remix tags, since those are the entries a hurried player skips. Expect the middle band to be crowded, because four hundred and ninety-seven answers landed on eighty-five and five hundred and ten on sixty, so reaching the top means picking the third or fourth title that comes to mind instead of the first. Anything genuinely ubiquitous scores, but it scores least.
Treat this as a breadth test rather than a knowledge test. Set a clock and brainstorm by geography: pick continents one at a time, then work down through regions and countries, asking for each what its protected areas are called. Switch the axis whenever you stall, from landforms to habitats to administrative units to the naming conventions used locally. Write down fragments and partial names even when you cannot finish them, because a rough guess costs nothing and a blank line earns nothing. Keep a running list so you do not circle back over the same ground, and deliberately spend the last third of your time in the least famous places you can recall. Quantity of distinct, plausible entries is what the scoring rewards.
Get a hint
Start with the scale of the thing: the world holds thousands of these designations across more than a hundred countries, so almost any region you can picture has at least one.
A little more
Move away from the postcard picks. Think of coastal and marine units, mountain ranges, wetlands, deserts, volcanic slopes, cave systems and tiny islands that carry the same official label.
One step further
Go granular: the list rewards individual units of only a few square kilometres, places named after creeks, ridges, seasonal rivers or local words that almost nobody could pronounce.
Reveal answers 3,653
Keibul LamjaoOne in a Krillion100points
Abaco National ParkDeep Cut85points
Abel Beth Maacah National ParkDeep Cut85points
Abercrombie River National ParkDeep Cut85points
Abijatta-ShallaDeep Cut85points
Abrolhos Marine National ParkDeep Cut85points
Abruzzo, Lazio and Molise National ParkDeep Cut85points
Absheron National ParkDeep Cut85points
Abughilan National ParkDeep Cut85points
Acari National ParkDeep Cut85points
AconquijaDeep Cut85points
Adam's Bridge Marine National ParkDeep Cut85points
Why these answers count
The distribution is unusually flat at the top: of 3,630 recorded answers, 3,603 reached at least 60 points, and 3,338 of those landed on exactly 85. Almost any correctly named park therefore paid well, which tells you the scorer rewarded breadth of recognition rather than obscurity alone. The single 100-point entry, Keibul Lamjao, sits alone at the peak because it is a genuinely hard, rarely offered name that most players would never reach. The 264 answers at 60 — Abaco National Park, Absheron National Park, Agulhas National Park and hundreds like them — are the floor for correct-but-common picks. Only 27 entries scored below 60, presumably hedged, partial or non-qualifying attempts. The lesson: correctness almost guaranteed a decent score, and the real premium came from reaching one deeply obscure unit rather than from a long list of well-known ones.
Name a TV comedy (tagged Comedy on IMDb, 1,000+ votes)
4,844 recorded answers
How to approach it
Begin with the tag, not the title. Build a mental map of everything IMDb files under Comedy, including half-hour sitcoms, animated series, sketch shows, dramedies, imports and panel formats, then ask which corners of that map the crowd will skip. Familiar network sitcoms are safe but cheap, because thousands of other entrants will land on them; the scoring rewards the answer that only a handful of people bother to type. So push toward the edges: short-run series cancelled after a season, animation aimed at children, titles from television industries outside the usual exporters, and older shows that survive mainly in archive listings. Check the vote threshold before committing, and prefer a title you can spell exactly.
Get a hint
The label covers far more than studio sitcoms: animation, sketch programmes, dramedies, children's shows and imported series all sit under the same heading.
A little more
Vote totals are the quiet filter; a short-lived show can fall short of the threshold even when it was a fixture back in its home country.
One step further
Push toward the edges of the map: animation, kids' programming and series from television industries that rarely travel, where the tag and a four-figure vote count often go unnoticed.
Reveal answers 4,844
Little MoleOne in a Krillion100points
¡Mucha Lucha!Deep Cut85points
'Til DeathDeep Cut85points
#1 Happy Family USADeep Cut85points
#BlackAFDeep Cut85points
$#*! My Dad SaysDeep Cut85points
1 Kadin 1 ErkekDeep Cut85points
10 Items or LessDeep Cut85points
10' kirygmaDeep Cut85points
100 Days My PrinceDeep Cut85points
100 Things to Do Before High SchoolDeep Cut85points
1000 Ways to DieDeep Cut85points
Why these answers count
The reveal is dominated by the 85-point band, where 3,825 answers landed, and the names in it share a profile: modest, specific, and rarely the first thing a room full of people shouts. Animated and children's titles such as ¡Mucha Lucha! (85) and 2 Stupid Dogs (85) sit beside short-lived scripted comedies like 1600 Penn (85) and 9JKL (85), plus imports such as 7 Numara (85) and 13 posterunek (85). None of these is obscure to the audience that watched it, but none is the default answer either. Only one answer reached the top band, Little Mole at 100 points, which shows how thin that rarest tier is. Meanwhile the 904 answers at 60 points are the ones a large share of solvers also produced: recognisable, easily recalled, and therefore cheap. Rarity, not quality, sets the price here; a title that only a few hundred people can name is worth more than a beloved hit everybody remembers.
Name a country with a desert climate (in any part of it)
70 recorded answers
How to approach it
Work from climate mechanisms rather than from a memorised list of deserts. Ask which countries sit in a rain shadow, which hold a cold desert on a high plateau, which have a fog-fed coastal strip, and which are large enough to contain a continental interior that dries out far from the sea. That gives a long, varied pool of candidates. Then rank them by surprise: the more a country resists the word desert, the less crowded your answer is likely to be, and the more points it tends to carry. Before committing, check that the arid zone is genuinely inside the country's own borders and not in a dependency, and be ready to say which part of the country you mean.
Get a hint
Aridity is a question of rainfall, not heat, so widen the search to cold-winter deserts, high plateaus, rain-shadow valleys and coasts where a dry belt borders a wet one.
A little more
Move past the famous sand seas and ask which countries hold a dry fragment that rarely reaches the front of an atlas: a leeward shore, an interior basin, a border strip that hardly anyone visits.
One step further
The best-scoring entries tend to be states where the arid corner is small, arguable and far from the national image, including temperate, tropical and highland settings with a single dry basin.
Reveal answers 70
United KingdomOne in a Krillion100points
Burkina FasoDeep Cut85points
Cabo VerdeDeep Cut85points
CameroonDeep Cut85points
ColombiaDeep Cut85points
DenmarkDeep Cut85points
EcuadorDeep Cut85points
KyrgyzstanDeep Cut85points
MadagascarDeep Cut85points
MozambiqueDeep Cut85points
NigeriaDeep Cut85points
NorwayDeep Cut85points
Why these answers count
The scoring here rewards distance from the obvious. Almost everyone's first instinct is a country of sand and relentless heat, and those answers were so crowded that they fell below the sixty-point band and never appear in the list above. The sixty-point group holds countries that do contain real aridity, but only in part: Kazakhstan, Russia, Spain, Peru, Brazil, Chad, Kenya, Yemen and their like, each defensible and still fairly easy to reach. The eighty-five tier moves further out, to states where the dry zone is a narrow corner or a genuine surprise — Burkina Faso, Cabo Verde, Cameroon, Colombia, Ecuador, Kyrgyzstan, Madagascar, Mozambique, Nigeria, South Sudan, Tajikistan, Venezuela. The single hundred-point entry, United Kingdom, is the pure outlier: a temperate island nobody pictures as desert, and precisely for that reason hardly anyone named it. A rare name pays more because few players reach it, but only when the climate claim survives inspection.
Name a player currently on an English Premier League or NFL team
3,151 recorded answers
How to approach it
The pool is enormous, so the real work is scouting for obscurity rather than recall. Begin by picking one league and one roster tier — a promoted club's bench, a franchise's special-teams unit, a newly signed full-back nobody has watched yet — then walk the roster until a name surfaces that you have never heard spoken aloud. Resist the first five names that arrive; they are the ones everyone else types. Check spelling variants and initials, because unusual transliterations and apostrophes tend to hide names that few solvers think of. Before committing, ask whether the person has appeared in a competitive fixture this season; a name technically on the books is what the question allows, and that margin is where the deep answers live.
Get a hint
Start from the sheer size of the pool: two leagues, dozens of squads and a spread of roles that runs from kicking specialists to full-backs who barely feature.
A little more
Walk a roster the way a scout would, through reserve defenders, third-choice goalkeepers, undrafted newcomers and academy call-ups, and you reach the seam almost nobody else digs.
One step further
Spelling is a legitimate lever: surnames buried late in the alphabet, double-barrelled forms and odd transliterations usually sit in a shallower bucket than a name everyone can type.
Reveal answers 3,151
Tom KingOne in a Krillion100points
A.J. HaulcyDeep Cut85points
A'Shawn RobinsonDeep Cut85points
Aamaris BrownDeep Cut85points
Aaron AnselminoDeep Cut85points
Aaron BanksDeep Cut85points
Aaron BrewerDeep Cut85points
Aaron HallDeep Cut85points
Aaron StinnieDeep Cut85points
Abdoul OuattaraDeep Cut85points
Abdul FatawuDeep Cut85points
Abdülkadir ÖmürDeep Cut85points
Why these answers count
Almost everything clusters at 85 points: 2505 of the recorded answers landed in that band, which tells you the puzzle rewards depth of roster knowledge rather than household fame. The single 100-point answer, Tom King, stands alone at the top because apparently nobody else offered it. Names such as A.J. Haulcy and Aaron Banks, both at 85, are typical of that winning tier — players a devoted follower of one team knows and the wider public does not. Adetomiwa Adebawore, also at 85, fits the same profile: a rotational defender whose surname is long enough to stick only with people who actually watch the snaps. The 517 answers sitting at 60 points are the more familiar end of the scale, the picks a casual viewer reaches for first. Rarity drives the scoring, so the lesson runs against instinct: the more obvious a name feels, the less it is worth.
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