October 31, 2026, Dive #108, stores 6,844 names. The longest list is “Name a fictional character who wears a mask” (4,523 recorded) and the shortest is “Name an animal that feeds on blood” (76). 6,279 score 85 or higher.
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6,844 recorded names6,279 at 85 or higher7 questions with an 85+ name
Treat the grid as a memory test on calendar folklore rather than a popularity poll. Begin by listing the broad functions the date serves in different places: honouring the dead, warding off harm, forecasting a partner, feeding a household, entertaining children, staging a public spectacle. For each function, push past the obvious modern activity into older or more local versions of it, because the reveal rewards precision over familiarity. Then move outward geographically: island communities, mountain villages, port towns and immigrant neighbourhoods all preserve variants that never became mainstream exports. Finally, check the wording of what you recall — a named dish, a named game and a named procession are all separate entries, and a specific event title usually scores better than the generic activity it belongs to.
Get a hint
Start with the widest frame: almost every region keeps at least one observance tied to the turn of the season, so the field includes private rituals, neighbourhood events and commercial spectacles alike.
A little more
Narrow by function rather than by fame — some customs exist to remember the dead, some to forecast a future spouse, some simply to frighten neighbours or feed a crowd, and each function hides its own cluster of names.
One step further
Go granular: the scored entries tend to be single, named practices with a clear setting, a fixed procedure or a signature dish, often recorded in one town or one island and rarely translated into English.
Reveal answers 399
Hwch Ddu GwtaOne in a Krillion100points
17th Street High Heel RaceDeep Cut85points
All Hallows' Eve vigilDeep Cut85points
AllantideDeep Cut85points
Allentown Halloween ParadeDeep Cut85points
Alphabet letters in waterDeep Cut85points
Alton Halloween ParadeDeep Cut85points
Amerikamura HalloweenDeep Cut85points
Angels' NightDeep Cut85points
Anne Rice Vampire BallDeep Cut85points
Anoka HalloweenDeep Cut85points
Apple peel divinationDeep Cut85points
Why these answers count
Scoring here tracks obscurity within the category, not effort. The single hundred-point entry, Hwch Ddu Gwta, is a regional Welsh visitation figure most players would never reach, so it sits alone at the top. The 343 answers at 85 points share that same texture: named local processions such as the Allentown Halloween Parade or the Alton Halloween Parade, calendar-specific folk rites like Allantide or the All Hallows' Eve vigil, divination games such as apple peel divination, and named foods such as barmbrack or colcannon. Each is a real, documented practice with a proper name, retrievable only if you know the region. The forty answers at 60 points are still specific but easier to reach — recognisable public customs rather than village-level detail. Anything below that band was presumably the first thing most people say: the generic activity everyone performs, which the reveal scores low precisely because thousands of players land on it at once. The lesson is that a narrower name always beats a broader one, provided it genuinely belongs to the date.
Name a chocolate with wafer, biscuit, or cookie in it
1,197 recorded answers
How to approach it
Work the category in layers rather than free-associating. Begin by listing the structural types: bars with biscuit pieces suspended in chocolate, wafer sandwiches under a coating, coated biscuits sold as confectionery, and rolled wafer fingers. For each type, walk through manufacturers before products: multinational confectioners, national biscuit houses, supermarket own-label ranges, and regional factories that outsiders rarely know. Because the reveal holds well over a thousand entries, breadth of catalogue knowledge matters more than depth on any single product, so keep moving once you have two or three names per company. When you stall, change the country in your head and repeat the sweep. Submit the unfamiliar names you trust before the obvious ones, because rare entries carry more weight.
Get a hint
Any country with a serious confectionery industry contributes a few entries here, so think globally instead of reaching only for what sits on the shelf where you live.
A little more
Separate the two main shapes early: a chocolate bar with biscuit pieces suspended in it, and a wafer bar whose centre is a stack of crisp layers under a coating.
One step further
Smaller local manufacturers and discount-range lines are just as valid as famous ones, and that long tail of barely exported catalogue names is where most recorded answers sit.
Reveal answers 1,197
Rotstern Drei Haselnüsse für AschenbrödelOne in a Krillion100points
Adria Mega WaferDeep Cut85points
Aero BiscuitsDeep Cut85points
Akay 7 SmileDeep Cut85points
Akay ArnoDeep Cut85points
Akay Black DoubleDeep Cut85points
Akay ÇelexlandDeep Cut85points
Akay Choco ParrisDeep Cut85points
Akay ChurrusDeep Cut85points
Akay Coco ShopDeep Cut85points
Akay CocogofDeep Cut85points
Akay Die BesteDeep Cut85points
Why these answers count
Scoring here tracks rarity almost perfectly. A single entry reached the hundred-point ceiling, while more than eleven hundred names landed on the same eighty-five-point tier and a final sixty settled at sixty. That middle band is where regional and mid-market brands cluster: the long run of variants from one prolific manufacturer, national biscuit makers and supermarket ranges all scored identically. Adria Mega Wafer and Aero Biscuits sat inside that block, exactly level with hundreds of obscure catalogue lines. Anything a contestant reaches in seconds, such as a mass-market wafer bar or a household biscuit name, earned less, whereas the one seasonal item almost nobody could retrieve, Rotstern Drei Haselnüsse für Aschenbrödel, took the full hundred. The lesson is that specificity outranks fame: a name confined to one company's local catalogue pays better than a product sold in every airport, so spend submissions on the obscure lines rather than the giants.
Instead of chasing one celebrated name, chart the many formats that generate concealed figures and take an obscure entry from each. Comic books give the deepest reservoir, from headline champions to villains who appear in a single panel; cinema and television add killers, spies and armoured troopers; animation, imported cartoons and interactive titles supply another layer. With a shortlist in hand, sort the candidates by how little exposure they have rather than by how tidily they match the phrasing, since the scoring rewards rarity. Copy each name exactly as its source spells it, digits and punctuation included, and hold two backups in case your obvious pick was already claimed. Proofreading costs nothing and protects a solid entry.
Get a hint
Begin with the broadest reservoir: costumed crime-fighters and rogues from long-running comic books, since nearly all of them conceal at least part of the head as part of the outfit.
A little more
Broaden into screens: horror killers, armoured space troopers, heroes of live-action serials and theatrical wrestlers all fit, and their covering usually doubles as a symbol or a plot device.
One step further
For rarity, drop the famous names and take a bit player from a cartoon, a niche game or a regional film, where the covering shows up in one line of dialogue or a costume list.
Reveal answers 4,523
Moonlight MaskOne in a Krillion100points
10,000 Volt GhostDeep Cut85points
Aaroniero ArruruerieDeep Cut85points
AbaddonDeep Cut85points
AbyssDeep Cut85points
Abyss WatchersDeep Cut85points
AbyssmanDeep Cut85points
AccordDeep Cut85points
Ace RikerDeep Cut85points
Ace SavvyDeep Cut85points
Ace the Bat-HoundDeep Cut85points
AcedDeep Cut85points
Why these answers count
The reveal exposes a very flat middle: 4287 entries sit at 85 points, so almost any genuinely concealed figure below the winning name earns the same reward, and only 196 land at 60. The lone 100-point entry is a vintage costumed hero rather than a current blockbuster property. Seeing Action Mask and Agent Carolina priced identically to the rest shows the grader is not ranking fame; it is checking whether your pick had already been spoken for by an earlier player. The upside therefore lies in a narrow footprint, such as a supporting player from a cartoon, a regional champion or an esoteric game boss. That Moonlight Mask holds the summit proves the point: instantly legible to a specialist, invisible to a mass audience. Chasing the biggest franchise burns the attempt, because those names were exhausted long before you sat down. A quiet, precisely spelled choice from an overlooked corner beats a famous one.
Start by listing the obvious everyday biters, then deliberately move away from them, because the scoring rewards obscurity rather than familiarity. Once you have a handful of common species, push sideways: ask which parasites live on a particular host, in a particular nest, or inside a particular organ, and which of those are obligate blood feeders rather than occasional ones. Naming conventions help, since many of these creatures are labelled after their host or the tissue they attack. Check each candidate against the wording of the question: it must take blood as food, not merely live on or in an animal. Finally, prefer precise species or genus names over loose household words, and keep several candidates ready.
Get a hint
The habit turns up in a surprisingly wide range of groups, from soft-bodied parasites to hard-shelled aquatic forms, winged insects, eight-legged arachnids and a few backboned species.
A little more
Many of the strongest answers are not the famous biters but obscure parasites named after the host they live on or the part of the body they occupy.
One step further
Look for creatures whose entire life cycle depends on a blood meal, especially ones tied to a single host species, a nest, a burrow or a body cavity rather than a free-living hunter.
Reveal answers 76
Cooper's nutmeg snailOne in a Krillion100points
Vampire mothOne in a Krillion100points
Aega psoraDeep Cut85points
Anchor wormDeep Cut85points
Avian vampire flyDeep Cut85points
Barber's pole wormDeep Cut85points
Bat bugDeep Cut85points
Bat flyDeep Cut85points
Bat wing miteDeep Cut85points
Bird blowflyDeep Cut85points
Bird nasal miteDeep Cut85points
Biting snipe flyDeep Cut85points
Why these answers count
Scoring here tracks how hard an answer is to think of, not how impressive it sounds. The two 100-point entries, Cooper's nutmeg snail and Vampire moth, are genuinely obscure, and most players would never reach them; the fifty-seven answers on 85 points form the same profile in slightly milder form, a long tail of specialised parasites such as Aega psora, Anchor worm or Tongue-eating louse, each tied to one host or one habitat and therefore rarely volunteered. The single 60-point answer, Biting midge, is the giveaway: it is a real blood feeder, but it sits close enough to everyday knowledge that plenty of people can produce it, so the site pays less. Familiar groups generally land at the bottom of the range, while anything that requires a second or third step of reasoning, such as naming the parasite of a particular host, tends to climb. The practical conclusion: the more specialised and the less conversational the name, the more points it earns.
Work the colour first, then the botany. Set two minutes and list every edible plant, however exotic, whose flesh, skin or peel reads as orange; do not stop at the four or five names anyone would shout first. When the obvious vein runs dry, change the axis: run through plant parts one by one, then through growing habits, then through cuisines that treat colour as a ripeness signal. Recall comes easier if you walk a market in your head — the root bins, the vine crops, the fruit crates, the berry punnets, the foraged basket. Scoring rewards distance from the obvious, so a name you had to rebuild from a half-memory is usually worth more than one you ate this week. Guess boldly; a small misspelling costs less than a gap.
Get a hint
Start with colour as the single filter: any edible plant part qualifies, whether it grows on a tree, a vine, a bush or underground, and whether it is eaten raw, cooked or pressed.
A little more
Narrow by plant part next: fruits, berries, drupes, vine crops, roots, tubers and a few fungi all carry the shade, so push past the first handful of names that come to mind.
One step further
Aim at tropical and subtropical produce, where the same colour hides behind names that rarely reach a mainstream supermarket shelf and are easily half-remembered.
Reveal answers 234
GacOne in a Krillion100points
Abyssinian gooseberryDeep Cut85points
AchachaDeep Cut85points
African custard-appleDeep Cut85points
African mangoDeep Cut85points
African mangosteenDeep Cut85points
African pear (Manilkara)Deep Cut85points
Ají amarilloDeep Cut85points
American pawpawDeep Cut85points
ApriumDeep Cut85points
Araticum-de-raposaDeep Cut85points
Araticum-do-pantanalDeep Cut85points
Why these answers count
The reveal is a study in diminishing returns. One entry, Gac, sits alone at 100 points, and it earns that because almost nobody outside its home region has eaten it: the scoring pays for obscurity rather than celebrity. The enormous middle band — 207 answers at 85 — is where the interesting work happens. Abyssinian gooseberry, Achacha, Bael, Cempedak, Lucuma and Canistel all sit there, and what unites them is that each is a real, culinarily documented plant a curious reader might plausibly retrieve but a casual player never will. The twelve familiar names that close the list — Blood orange, Persimmon, Satsuma, Kumquat and their neighbours — land at 60 points, still a passing grade but the minimum the puzzle awards for a correct, unremarkable hit. The lesson is blunt: the colour is easy, the rarity is the score. A plausible exotic name you can defend beats a household one you are sure of, and the gap between 60 and 85 is wider than the gap between 85 and a wrong guess.
Treat this as a recall sprint rather than a research task, because the scoring rewards a long, varied list. Sweep the map in clusters: archipelagos and small island states first, then microstates, then the big continental countries, then the newest sovereign entrants. For each cluster, run through the flags you can picture and ask whether a dark band, a warm-toned triangle or an emblem in either shade appears anywhere in the design. Jot down every name that survives, then test the doubtful ones against the sovereignty rule. Famous flags come easily and score modestly; the marginal points sit with the smaller and less familiar states, so keep going past the first dozen names before you commit.
Get a hint
Begin with the flags you link immediately to warm colors, then broaden out to designs where the shade you are after is a small accent rather than the main field.
A little more
Small states and island nations turn up often in this kind of list, and plenty of their flags carry a central device picked out in one of the two tones.
One step further
Look closely at narrow vertical bands, diagonal crosses and the thin edging around a central shape, since that is where the qualifying color usually hides on otherwise familiar flags.
Reveal answers 83
Marshall IslandsOne in a Krillion100points
Antigua and BarbudaDeep Cut85points
BelizeDeep Cut85points
BoliviaDeep Cut85points
BruneiDeep Cut85points
Costa RicaDeep Cut85points
DominicaDeep Cut85points
Dominican RepublicDeep Cut85points
El SalvadorDeep Cut85points
Equatorial GuineaDeep Cut85points
EswatiniDeep Cut85points
FijiDeep Cut85points
Why these answers count
Eighty-three answers were recorded and seventy-five of them cleared sixty points, so the scoring was kind to anyone with a decent memory for flags. Marshall Islands took the only hundred: its orange-topped band is easy to overlook and the name is rarely the first that comes to mind, which is precisely why few players found it. The eighty-five tier is crowded with confident but not obvious picks, Nigeria, Belize, Venezuela, Serbia and Fiji among them, names that surface after a moment's thought rather than instantly. The sixty-point group behaves differently: household names such as Austria, Mexico, Ghana and Kenya are flags almost everyone can picture, so a large share of players reach for them and the crowd flattens their value. What the scale measures is rarity rather than correctness, and that is why an overlooked island outscored a familiar name.
Treat the three-letter opening as a stem and build outward rather than guessing whole words. Begin with the handful of stems you already know, then run a deliberate morphological drill: for every stem, add suffixes marking agent, quality, manner, privation and activity, and note which combinations look like real dictionary entries rather than inventions. Next, compound each stem with everyday nouns to create single closed-up forms, keeping length and plausibility in mind. When the obvious vein thins, switch to reference hunting: dialect glossaries, historical dictionaries, and specialist vocabularies often list longer derivatives that no casual player will produce. Sort candidates by how unlikely they feel, submit the strangest ones first, and check each entry is one unbroken word, since proper nouns and phrases score nothing.
Get a hint
Start with the shortest, most familiar stems your memory supplies and note how many everyday domains — clothing, dwellings, creatures, plants, tools — already carry a candidate or two of their own.
A little more
Then work the machinery of word formation: add suffixes for agent, quality, manner, and privation to each stem, and try joining two ordinary nouns or a noun and a verb into a single closed-up compound.
One step further
Finally, raid the long tail: dialect glossaries, historical dictionaries, and technical word lists hide many lengthier compounds and diminutive or jocular formations, and those are exactly the entries that pay the most.
Reveal answers 332
booboisieOne in a Krillion100points
boobookOne in a Krillion100points
booableDeep Cut85points
boobageDeep Cut85points
booberyDeep Cut85points
boobfestDeep Cut85points
boobheadDeep Cut85points
boobiliciousDeep Cut85points
boobilyDeep Cut85points
boobirdDeep Cut85points
boobishDeep Cut85points
boobishlyDeep Cut85points
Why these answers count
Points in this round tracked obscurity almost perfectly. The two entries that reached 100 — booboisie and boobook — are dictionary-attested but genuinely exotic: one is a jocular coinage for a social class, the other an obscure bird name, and neither surfaces in ordinary conversation. The enormous 85-point band, 216 of the 332 recorded answers, is where derivation and compounding pay off: boobage, boobfest, boobilicious, bookfluencer and bookstagrammer all sit there, each a transparent formation that still requires a leap of invention. The 91 answers at 60 points are the solid mid-tier — unusual enough to escape the obvious list, common enough that a few hundred players found them. Only twenty-three entries fell below that line, which means the crowd was unusually disciplined about avoiding the first forms that come to mind. The lesson is blunt: length and rarity beat familiarity, and a strange compound assembled from an ordinary stem outscores a short everyday word every time.
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