October 28, 2026, Dive #105, stores 4,251 names. The longest list is “Name a part of the human head” (2,016 recorded) and the shortest is “Name a 3+ letter word you can spell with the letters in "krillion" (using each letter only as many times as it appears)” (50). 3,595 score 85 or higher.
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4,251 recorded names3,595 at 85 or higher7 questions with an 85+ name
Start by generating volume rather than precision: spend the first minute writing every dish you would put on a menu, then deliberately push past them. Work through structural slots — a shape, a filling, a sauce, a cooking method, a serving temperature — and combine them, because dishes with a qualifying word usually count as separate entries. Next, sweep by kitchen tradition: home cooking, festive cooking, street food, restaurant classics, and dishes carried by emigrant communities. Read each candidate back against the wording and drop bare sauces, raw ingredients and garnish-only plates. Finally, keep the strangest plausible names you can actually define; if you can describe what is in it and where it comes from, it is probably a legitimate entry.
Get a hint
Most people stop at the first few dishes that come to mind, so deliberately widen the field: dried shapes, fresh shapes, stuffed parcels, oven trays, soups and cold mixes all belong here.
A little more
Every kitchen that works with wheat eventually folded pasta into its own repertoire, and the name often stays in the local language rather than being translated.
One step further
The richest ground sits at the far end of the scale: compound names that add a sauce, a filling, a cooking vessel or a town-style qualifier, instead of the handful of dishes printed on every menu.
Reveal answers 764
Pastasciutta antifascistaOne in a Krillion100points
AgnoliniDeep Cut85points
Agnolotti gobbiDeep Cut85points
ÄlplermagronenDeep Cut85points
Amish macaroni saladDeep Cut85points
Amish noodlesDeep Cut85points
Andarinos al sugoDeep Cut85points
Anelletti al fornoDeep Cut85points
Ankake spaghettiDeep Cut85points
AnoliniDeep Cut85points
ArishtaDeep Cut85points
Armenian mantiDeep Cut85points
Why these answers count
The scoring here rewards specificity far more than fame. Of 753 recorded answers, 715 reached at least 60 points, but the shape of that band tells the story: 542 landed at 85, 172 at 60, and a single entry hit 100. The 85-point mass is where the genuinely regional, dialectal and compound names sit — Agnolini, Agnolotti, Älplermagronen, Amish macaroni salad, Anelletti al forno, Cappelletti in brodo and dozens of similar entries. Each is a real, definable dish, yet narrow enough that few players reach for it, which is exactly what the puzzle pays for. The 60-point group behaves like a safety net for correct but widely available answers, and it is a much smaller pool, suggesting most solvers who committed to an unusual name were rewarded for it. Pastasciutta antifascista, the lone 100, goes a step further: a compound name with a story attached, almost impossible to arrive at by generic brainstorming. So the lesson is to answer with the most precise name you can defend, not the most recognisable one.
Treat the question as an open invitation to a dissection rather than a request for one obvious feature. Work through the region systematically: the outer covering, the bony framework, the muscles that move it, the spaces and cavities inside, the lining membranes, and the vessels and nerves threading through all of it. Then push one level finer, because the scoring rewards precision: a long formal name for a small named feature will beat a plain everyday word almost every time. Build a mental running order before you commit, and keep each guess distinct so you are exploring new territory instead of circling the same structure under a different label.
Get a hint
Begin with the whole region: what someone would point to when describing the general outline and volume of the area above the neck.
A little more
Move one layer inward and think about what a dissection would expose, from the outer covering through the supporting framework to the delicate contents it shelters.
One step further
Now get specific: tiny named features such as grooves, ridges, canals, thin membranes and short nerve branches all sit inside this region and each one is a valid entry.
Reveal answers 2,016
HabenulaOne in a Krillion100points
Abducens nerveDeep Cut85points
Abducens nucleusDeep Cut85points
Accessory lacrimal glandsDeep Cut85points
Accessory meningeal arteryDeep Cut85points
Accessory nasal cartilagesDeep Cut85points
Accessory nerveDeep Cut85points
Accessory parotid glandDeep Cut85points
Aditus ad antrumDeep Cut85points
Agger nasiDeep Cut85points
Ala of crista galliDeep Cut85points
Ala of the noseDeep Cut85points
Why these answers count
The numbers here are unusually generous and they tell you most of what you need to know. Of 2006 recorded answers, 1971 reached the 60-point threshold, and 1852 of those sat at exactly 85, so the puzzle accepts an enormous slice of anatomical vocabulary and hands out a strong score for almost any properly named structure. Only a handful of entries dropped below 60, which means vague or colloquial wording is the real risk, not obscurity. The single 100-point answer, Habenula, is a tiny and rarely discussed structure, which shows that the ceiling is reserved for genuinely deep cuts. Everything around it is solid mid-tier material: Abducens nerve at 85, Agger nasi at 85, Aditus ad antrum at 85. Rarer, more technical picks earn more because fewer players reach for them, while the common words everyone thinks of first tend to settle at the lower band.
Name a region of the world that spans multiple countries (like the Middle East)
858 recorded answers
How to approach it
Work at the middle scale, because that is where named regions live: bigger than a province, smaller than a continent. Generate candidates in families rather than one at a time. Physical names come first: mountain chains, plateaus, river catchments, deltas, deserts, seas and their coasts. Ecological names come next: forest belts, savannas, scrub and reef zones mapped by conservation bodies. Then human names: historical provinces, cultural and linguistic borderlands, trade corridors, imperial leftovers, and territories whose names predate the states now sitting on them. For each candidate, run a border check and ask whether the name really reaches into at least two present-day countries. Discard whatever stops inside one frontier, then rank the survivors by specificity, since precision separates a strong entry from a vague one.
Get a hint
Start with the scale in between a single country and a whole continent: names at that level usually describe shared terrain, shared climate, or a shared cultural inheritance.
A little more
Then test the name against a map of frontiers: the strongest candidates straddle a border or a tripoint, and many were fixed by geology, drainage or language rather than by any treaty.
One step further
Rarity pays, so move past the obvious blocks and look for smaller cross-border names: upland massifs, desert margins, transitional coastlines, ethnolinguistic marches, and ecological zones drawn by conservation bodies.
Reveal answers 858
PolesiaOne in a Krillion100points
Acacia–Commiphora bushlandDeep Cut85points
AcadiaDeep Cut85points
Accursed MountainsDeep Cut85points
Adamawa PlateauDeep Cut85points
AegeanDeep Cut85points
Aegean IslandsDeep Cut85points
AethiopiaDeep Cut85points
Afar TriangleDeep Cut85points
African Great LakesDeep Cut85points
AfromontaneDeep Cut85points
Afrotropical realmDeep Cut85points
Why these answers count
With 791 of 838 recorded answers clearing sixty points, this was a generous, flat-scoring question: the reveal accepted almost anything that genuinely straddles a border, then paid by how obscure the pick was. Only one entry, Polesia, reached 100: the classic deep cut, a marsh-and-forest territory most solvers would never retrieve, while the bulk of the field settled on 85-point names. Those 85s span every register: ecological units such as Acacia–Commiphora bushland, historical territories such as Assyria, and physical features such as the Altai Mountains. Language-based, colonial-era and conservation-body names all did well because each is a genuinely named region with a real multi-country footprint, which is the test the puzzle applied. The 102 answers at 60 look like the broad, obvious end of the market, plausible but heavily shared, so the curve rewarded detail over safety. The lesson is that once a pick clears the border test, obscurity is the only lever left, and ecological or pre-modern historical names tend to be the least crowded shelf.
Name a food or drink that has an emoji (don't open your emoji keyboard please)
153 recorded answers
How to approach it
Work backwards from the pictograph catalogue rather than from your own meals. Picture the panel as a rough sequence of sections — produce and ingredients first, then prepared dishes, then sweets and baked goods, then drinks and the vessels holding them — and list every symbol that shows something ingestible. Ignore anything whose role is cooking, serving or storage; those feel adjacent but fall outside the wording. Rank what remains by how ordinary it feels, because the plainest, most universally recognised entries are what a crowd reaches for first and will sit low on the scoring curve. Build a second tier of less obvious but still plainly edible symbols and lead with those. Test each candidate against the literal question as well, since a few symbols are creatures or plain liquids before they are dishes.
Get a hint
Start from the sheer size of the official picture set: it runs to several thousand symbols, and a modest slice of them depict something ingestible, so the pool is wider than most people assume at first.
A little more
Sort your candidates by where they sit in that catalogue — whole ingredients, prepared plates, sweet baked goods, hot and cold beverages, and containers shown with food inside all occupy different stretches of it.
One step further
Narrow to symbols whose whole point is being consumed rather than prepared or served, and keep in mind that a few pictographs of living creatures and of plain liquids are treated as edible by many players.
Reveal answers 153
OdenOne in a Krillion100points
Baby bottleDeep Cut85points
BentoDeep Cut85points
BisonDeep Cut85points
Bowl with spoonDeep Cut85points
Canned foodDeep Cut85points
Clinking beer mugsDeep Cut85points
Clinking glassesDeep Cut85points
DangoDeep Cut85points
FalafelDeep Cut85points
Fish cakeDeep Cut85points
FondueDeep Cut85points
Why these answers count
The reveal rewards specificity and rarity inside an already narrow pool. The single hundred-point entry, Oden, is the sort of answer only a deep familiarity with the pictograph set produces: a hearty winter stew that most players would never recall as a symbol at all, which is exactly why it tops the board. The eighty-five-point band is crowded with entries that are recognisable but not automatic — Baby bottle, Bento, Falafel, Fondue, Moon cake, Sake, Teapot, Shaved ice, Takeout and dozens of similar picks — each of them a real symbol yet far from the first thing a crowd shouts. At sixty points sit the dependable staples: Avocado, Bacon, Bagel, Bubble tea, Croissant, Cupcake, Curry, Dumpling, Pretzel, Soft ice cream. They are all valid and all easy to reach, so the scoring curve flattens them. Roughly ninety-three of the hundred and fifty recorded answers cleared sixty, which tells you the judges expected a broad field of correct picks; the differentiator was not being right but being unusual while remaining obviously edible.
Work outward from the broadest possible list — every household-name ability everyone would shout in the first ten seconds — write them down, then deliberately discard them, because a question this open barely rewards the obvious. Instead, walk the catalogue figure by figure and ask what that one character alone can do that nobody else replicates, noting the exact scene where it happens. Origin stories are the richest source, because they tend to spell a new ability out in dialogue. Then convert each finding into the tightest label possible: one mechanism, one effect, one noun phrase. Verify every candidate against what has genuinely appeared on screen, and keep a dozen in reserve, because a narrowly defined oddity outscores a famous generic feat.
Get a hint
Sweep the entire run of films and series first, because the widest answers tend to hide in the cosmic storylines and in the short-lived shows that only got one season.
A little more
Then sort whatever you find by its origin: abilities that arrive through a birthright, an artifact, a realm, a ritual or a transformation are described far more precisely than everyday physical feats.
One step further
Finally, tighten each idea until it carries its own name and one clear effect, the way a reference entry would head it, rather than leaving it as a loose family of tricks.
Reveal answers 132
Communication with CelestialsOne in a Krillion100points
Age manipulationDeep Cut85points
Ancestral powersDeep Cut85points
Armor creationDeep Cut85points
Binary formDeep Cut85points
Binding spellsDeep Cut85points
BioluminescenceDeep Cut85points
Breaking mind controlDeep Cut85points
Celestial powersDeep Cut85points
Changing appearanceDeep Cut85points
Chi absorptionDeep Cut85points
Chi healingDeep Cut85points
Why these answers count
Two high bands dominate the reveal, and the split says a lot about what earns points. Sixty-seven entries landed on 85, and they share a shape: Age manipulation, Chi healing, Dreamwalking, Mirror dimension, Technopathy, Voice mimicry — each a single, separately named mechanism with one clear effect, often shown in only a handful of scenes. Forty-two further answers sit at 60, a band that reads as the home of abilities which are still specific but far more familiar. At the very top, alone on 100, sits Communication with Celestials: the most specialised phrasing in the whole list, tied to one figure and one kind of scene. Nothing broad appears near the summit. Generosity of category is the enemy here, because a label covering half the roster reads as a generic feat rather than a distinct ability, and the scorer clearly separates the two. Precision, oddity and a memorable scene behind the phrase are what push an entry from the middle band into the high one.
Work the question as a taxonomy rather than a brainstorm. Draw five columns — travel over water, travel over snow and ice, travel over paved ground, vertical lifting, and standing industrial equipment — then fill each with as many named members as you can. The reveal clearly rewarded precise sub-types, so after every broad idea ask which particular version of it exists and write that down instead: a hull form, a rig form, a propulsion form, an operator platform. Keep only entries the rider physically stands on, and drop anything involving a seat, a straddle or being towed on foot. Read the list back, cut near-duplicates that differ only in wording, and stop once you have fifteen solid items, each written at its most specific.
Get a hint
Begin with movement itself: any machine, craft or device that carries a person somewhere qualifies while the body stays vertical, so list the ways people travel without taking a seat.
A little more
Then widen from vehicles into leisure and work: gear that slides over snow or water, wheeled playthings you kick along, and machinery that hoists a worker into the air all belong to the same family.
One step further
Chase the odd corners last: hull and rig names, industrial trucks built for a standing operator, stage and facade maintenance platforms, and one-off contraptions with a single wheel or none at all.
Reveal answers 278
PaternosterOne in a Krillion100points
AirshipDeep Cut85points
AquaplaneDeep Cut85points
ArcaBoardDeep Cut85points
Bamboo driftingDeep Cut85points
Bamboo raftDeep Cut85points
BargeDeep Cut85points
BarrelDeep Cut85points
Bass boatDeep Cut85points
BattleshipDeep Cut85points
Belt manliftDeep Cut85points
BrigDeep Cut85points
Why these answers count
Points track specificity far more than plausibility. The 85-point band is enormous — 181 of the 254 scoring entries — and it reads like a catalogue of narrow sub-types rather than household words: Aquaplane, Bamboo raft, Bass boat, Battleship, Brig, Button lift, Canal boat, Caravel. Each one is a legitimate member of the category spelled out precisely, and precision is what the reveal paid for, because someone who reaches for a hull type or a rig type has already moved past the first word that comes to mind. The 60-point tier is where broad, everyday entries land: correct, easy to duplicate, therefore cheap. A single answer touched 100, Paternoster, the continuously looping lift that hardly anyone pictures, which shows the top of the scale is reserved for the genuinely unexpected. The lesson for players is that a safe answer buys a floor of points, a precisely named variant buys roughly forty percent more, and the real prize hides among the strange, specialised corners most people never think to mention.
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