November 3, 2026, Dive #111, stores 102,242 names. The longest list is “Name a TV show that released or had a new season this year or last year” (40,423 recorded) and the shortest is “Name a team sport (no esports, board games or card games)” (916). 99,168 score 85 or higher.
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102,242 recorded names99,168 at 85 or higher7 questions with an 85+ name
Name a TV show that released or had a new season this year or last year
40,423 recorded answers
How to approach it
Begin with whatever you watched most recently and let the pool grow before you commit to anything. Walk through genres one at a time: long-running drama, panel quizzes, reality competitions, morning strands, late-night comedy, documentaries, children's animation, regional magazines. For each genre, ask which titles were launched or renewed across the two most recent years, and reread the wording closely: a fresh season is enough, a premiere is enough, and the platform is irrelevant. Write everything down rather than picking the first idea that surfaces. Once the pool is full, sort the candidates by how unlikely thousands of other players are to have typed the same thing, and send the least obvious title you can honestly justify. Getting the year right matters more than how celebrated the pick is.
Get a hint
Start wide: news bulletins, morning magazines, talk shows, quizzes, soap operas, cooking contests and documentaries all sit inside the category.
A little more
Then narrow by calendar: think about what launched or was renewed over the last two years, including shows that returned quietly with a second run or an anniversary special.
One step further
Finally, push toward the edges of the schedule: regional stations, streaming-only launches, imported formats, children's programming and late-night strands hide the rarest entries.
Reveal answers 40,423
Sazae-sanOne in a Krillion100points
_CivilianDeep Cut85points
:newstime SpezialDeep Cut85points
¡Ahora me la pagas, maldito!Deep Cut85points
¡Atención obras!Deep Cut85points
¡Claro Que Baila!Deep Cut85points
¡Colores!Deep Cut85points
¡De lunes a viernes!Deep Cut85points
¡Diache!Deep Cut85points
¡Mamá, no me dejes morir!Deep Cut85points
¡Salta!Deep Cut85points
¡Siéntese Quien Pueda!Deep Cut85points
Why these answers count
The reveal is dominated by one enormous middle tier: 39,528 entries landed on 85 points, 786 settled for 60, and exactly one reached 100. That distribution says the scoring rewards specificity rather than fame. A solitary scripted title from outside the English-speaking mainstream, “Sazae-san” (100), held the top on its own, while the 85 band is packed with long-tail picks such as “¿Quién es la máscara?” (85), “¡Atención obras!” (85) and “007: Road to a Million” (85), regional, imported, anniversary-dated or punctuation-heavy names that few players would ever think of. The 60-point group is the reverse: recognisable, heavily repeated choices that thousands of others also typed. So any honest premiere or renewal from the last two years qualifies, but the more local, the stranger the title and the more recent the run, the fewer people share your entry and the higher you climb. A mass hit still scores, just never at the ceiling.
Empty your memory before you commit to a guess. Give yourself two minutes to list every airborne hero who surfaces without effort, then switch registers on purpose: animation, imported dubs, direct-to-video films, team books with decades of roster churn, licensed spin-offs, novels, games. Each register unlocks names the previous one buried. Next, play with word roots for sky, air, wing, flight, star and bird, and check which of them are genuine codenames rather than descriptions. Afterwards, walk the alphabet and mark the letters you never touched, since those gaps usually hide a forgotten corner rather than an empty one. Hand in the strangest name you can honestly defend; popular picks all clump in the same low band.
Get a hint
Begin with the obvious silhouette, a hero whose trademark move is simply rising off the pavement, then widen across every format you can name: printed pages, Saturday cartoons, imported dubs, web strips, tabletop rosters and prose.
A little more
Move from the marquee names into roster filler: reserve members, one-arc allies, international squads, legacy replacements and licensed spin-off heroes who still ended up with a codename and a costume.
One step further
At the sharp end, hunt heroes built on a single altitude gimmick, an element, a rank, a trade or a bird welded to a codename, plus names you would only ever meet two clicks deep in a fan wiki.
Reveal answers 2,442
AnpanmanOne in a Krillion100points
4-DDeep Cut85points
A-PexDeep Cut85points
A.J.Deep Cut85points
AaDeep Cut85points
Abby ArcaneDeep Cut85points
Abin SurDeep Cut85points
AcceleratorDeep Cut85points
Accomplished Perfect PhysicianDeep Cut85points
Ace (Lilo & Stitch)Deep Cut85points
Ace McCloudDeep Cut85points
AcheronDeep Cut85points
Why these answers count
The scoring curve is remarkably flat, which reflects crowding far more than merit. Most recorded answers sit at 85, a single one climbs to 100, and only 141 slide to 60. That bottom step almost certainly holds the marquee names thousands of players type within seconds. Everything else shares the 85 band whatever its fame, from Adam Strange and Air-Walker to Aero and Ajak, because the scorer measures distance from the crowd rather than depth of trivia. Anpanman's solitary 100 proves the point: a figure colossal in one market and nearly unknown in another, so hardly anyone else reached it. The lesson is that the gap between a respectable answer and a superb one is not obscurity for its own sake but a real, defensible name absent from the first wave of guesses. A recognisable second-string hero beats a household name, and a genuinely buried one beats both.
A workable method is to sort candidates by sales channel and by typography rather than chasing well-known labels one at a time. Walk through what you actually use, then what sits in a relative's bathroom, then what appears in dermatology clinics, salon backbars, refill shops and subscription boxes. On each mental shelf, force out four or five labels before moving on. Afterwards, run a second pass purely on form: entries built from digits, initials, punctuation, a founder's surname or a single abstract word tend to be under-supplied, so they are worth listing even when they feel obscure. Keep a longlist of thirty or more, then cut anything that is really a product, a treatment or a retailer's own generic line, and check the spelling of the strangest candidate before committing.
Get a hint
Start from the entire aisle rather than a single container: every cleanser, serum and cream on a shelf implies a label behind it, and that label is what gets collected here.
A little more
Look past the heavily advertised labels and leave room for pharmacy ranges, salon-only lines, subscription startups and tiny workshops selling through one webshop.
One step further
Pay attention to the shape of the wording too: numerals instead of words, initials, punctuation marks and a founder's surname all appear as perfectly valid entries on this list.
Reveal answers 19,359
Bag BalmOne in a Krillion100points
(M)anasi 7Deep Cut85points
(Re)HermDeep Cut85points
(Sainsburys) Source of NatureDeep Cut85points
& other storiesDeep Cut85points
&honeyDeep Cut85points
#17vdermaDeep Cut85points
#6Deep Cut85points
#SuperpoderesDeep Cut85points
+1HEROLABSDeep Cut85points
+FULDeep Cut85points
000SKINDeep Cut85points
Why these answers count
The scoring spread was lopsided: 18,915 entries earned 85 points, which suggests the grader accepted almost any label that was recognisably about skin care. Separation came at the edges. Only 404 answers dropped to 60 points, and those were the reflex picks, the handful of global labels a whole room would shout at once, marked down for how little thought they required. At the far end, a single answer reached 100 points: Bag Balm, an old-fashioned multipurpose salve whose place on a facial care list can be argued but is far from automatic. In between sat the vast middle, where odd formatting cost nothing. (M)anasi 7, (Re)Herm and 111Skin all took the standard 85, as did entries led by digits or punctuation. Rarity is rewarded, but gently: an outlandish label still has to be a real one, and once it clears that bar it lands in the same comfortable band as everything else.
Treat this as a breadth test rather than a recall test. The scoring bands tell you that the middle of the dex is where the value sits, so resist the first three or four names that surface and instead work through the roster generation by generation, listing species you have never used on a team. A useful filter is familiarity: if a creature appears on lunchboxes or in a cartoon opening, it is probably crowded. If you only know it from a dex screen, a trade evolution or a post-game route, it is likely to sit in a thinner band. Commit to one name rather than hedging, and pick the one you can spell and classify confidently, because a misspelled or misremembered entry may not register at all.
Get a hint
Start from the sheer size of the roster: more than a thousand creatures have been catalogued across the generations, so the obvious household names are only a thin layer at the top.
A little more
Move past the starters, the box legends and the mascots that appear on merchandise, and think about the species that only show up in one generation's regional dex or in a late-game area.
One step further
Aim for something you recognise from a dex listing rather than from a cartoon episode — a single-stage oddity or an awkward middle evolution whose name you have read far more often than you have heard it spoken.
Reveal answers 1,025
ShedinjaOne in a Krillion100points
AbomasnowDeep Cut85points
AccelgorDeep Cut85points
AlomomolaDeep Cut85points
AmauraDeep Cut85points
AmbipomDeep Cut85points
AmoongussDeep Cut85points
AnorithDeep Cut85points
AppletunDeep Cut85points
ApplinDeep Cut85points
AraquanidDeep Cut85points
ArbolivaDeep Cut85points
Why these answers count
The reveal covered 1025 recorded answers, and the shape of the scoreboard is unusually flat at the top: 919 entries cleared 60 points, with 527 of those landing on 85 and just one reaching 100. That single perfect pick, Shedinja, is a species most players know only as a strange, shell-like evolution with a one-hit-point gimmick, so naming it looks like a genuine act of recall rather than reflex. The 85 band is packed with the dex's quiet middle — Abomasnow, Accelgor, Alomomola, Amoonguss, Anorith, Applin — creatures that are real and memorable to anyone who has played through a given generation but rarely the first name on anyone's lips. The 60-point tier, by contrast, is where the crowded picks live: starters, box legendaries and cartoon mascots that hundreds of players submit at once. Rarity is the whole mechanic here, so the further a name sits from the franchise's marketing surface, the more it is worth.
Name a team sport (no esports, board games or card games)
916 recorded answers
How to approach it
The productive route is a mental sweep rather than a single guess. Begin with the mainstream disciplines you could name without thinking, then mutate each one along four axes: who plays it, what surface it uses, what equipment it needs and how long the format runs. Every mutation is a candidate — a different number of players, a different floor, a shortened version, an adapted variant. Then move geographically: every region has codified games that never travelled far, and that is the highest-value territory. Keep a running list, because the format rewards volume and obscurity together. Before submitting, check that the candidate genuinely involves two or more people cooperating against opponents under physical effort, so nothing disqualified slips through.
Get a hint
Start from the biggest stage and work outward: the disciplines contested at major multi-sport games give you a solid backbone before you branch into regional and folk varieties.
A little more
Then think about setting and equipment: water, snow, sand, court, field, track, bat, racket, ball or no ball at all — each shift opens a fresh set of team disciplines.
One step further
Finally, chase the modified forms: numbers of players, surface prefixes, age and gender variants, and shortened formats often name a distinct team sport in its own right.
Reveal answers 916
HooverballOne in a Krillion100points
100-ball cricketDeep Cut85points
16-inch softballDeep Cut85points
3v3 floorballDeep Cut85points
AbulaDeep Cut85points
Acrobatic gymnasticsDeep Cut85points
Acrobatic rock'n'rollDeep Cut85points
Acrobatics and tumblingDeep Cut85points
Adventure racingDeep Cut85points
Aerobic gymnastics pairsDeep Cut85points
Aesthetic group gymnasticsDeep Cut85points
AFL 9sDeep Cut85points
Why these answers count
Points here track rarity, not legitimacy. The single hundred-point answer, Hooverball, is a niche fitness-derived game that almost nobody thinks of, so it stands alone at the top. The enormous 85-point band — 741 answers — is where distinctive but still codified variants live: 100-ball cricket, 16-inch softball, 3v3 floorball, Abula, Acrobatic gymnastics, Adventure racing. Each is a real, separately named team sport, yet each sits far enough from everyday conversation that only a determined solver reaches it. The 150 answers at 60 points are the ones a casual respondent names within seconds; they are correct, but they are shared by nearly everyone, so the crowd splits the reward. The practical lesson is that breadth beats depth: rather than perfecting one familiar answer, generate many unusual but verifiable ones and submit the most obscure you can justify. Rarity is the scoring engine.
Name someone currently serving in a national government or parliament.
35,727 recorded answers
How to approach it
The trick is to treat the prompt as a wide funnel rather than a popularity contest. Begin with the people you know best, then deliberately travel to countries whose politics rarely make headlines and reconstruct a name from a roster you remember. National legislatures publish member lists, so recall a chamber you have read about — a small assembly, a federal upper house, a coalition partner's bench — and pick a single sitting member. Verify mentally that the person holds office now, not a decade ago. Then consider the scoring logic: the puzzle rewards answers that many people can confirm but few will think of, so an accurate, verifiable name from an overlooked country beats a famous one almost every time.
Get a hint
Start at the very top of the executive ladder: heads of government, their deputies and the senior ministers who were in office this week.
A little more
Narrow by chamber instead: a single seat in a national legislature is enough, so think of backbenchers, whips and committee chairs as well as speakers.
One step further
Go for depth over fame: a member of a small national assembly or a junior minister in a country that rarely makes the news usually scores higher than a household-name premier.
Reveal answers 35,727
Michael DobbsOne in a Krillion100points
A B M Mosharrof HossainDeep Cut85points
A M Mahbub Uddin KhokonDeep Cut85points
A N M Ehsanul Hoque MilonDeep Cut85points
A T M Azharul IslamDeep Cut85points
A. A. RahimDeep Cut85points
A. E. Sultan Mahmud BabuDeep Cut85points
A. J. BothaDeep Cut85points
A. K. B. AmpiahDeep Cut85points
A. K. M. Fazlul Haque MilanDeep Cut85points
A. K. M. Selim Reza HabibDeep Cut85points
A. KanisDeep Cut85points
Why these answers count
Scoring here is driven by rarity rather than prominence. The single hundred-point answer, Michael Dobbs, sits alone at the top precisely because almost nobody else named that individual, while the enormous 85-point band contains tens of thousands of sitting members drawn from national chambers across every continent, from A B M Mosharrof Hossain and A. A. Rahim to Aaron Bean and Abdoulaye Diop. Those answers were correct, current and specific enough to satisfy the checker, yet common enough among players that they landed in the second tier. Below them, the 60-point group of 328 answers was presumably made up of figures who were either extremely well known, slightly stale in office, or generically described in a way that reduced their value. The lesson is blunt: a verifiable backbencher from a legislature nobody discusses is worth more than a prime minister everyone recognises, and a precise full name outperforms a vague one.
Work outward from the plainest possible storage objects, because the scoring rewards volume and precision rather than novelty alone. Begin with the containers in your own home and name them by function and setting, then shift to the places where specialised holdings accumulate: laboratories, pharmacies, workshops, ships, places of worship, farms and burial practice. For each setting ask what a person there would need to keep dry, cool, sealed, sorted or safe, and convert that need into a noun. Compound names usually score better than bare ones, since a modifier narrows a broad object into something a specialist would recognise. Keep a running list as you go; the aim is dozens of plausible entries, not one perfect answer.
Get a hint
Start from human activity rather than from shape: ritual, trade, transport, medicine, fieldwork and the home each produced its own family of objects made for holding things.
A little more
Move from the everyday to the specialist: once ordinary storage is exhausted, push into craft workshops, laboratories, pharmacies, ships, temples and ceremonial settings.
One step further
Aim for compound names, a modifier plus a generic holding word, that describe a narrow, old or technical variant only a specialist would recognise.
Reveal answers 2,350
Safety coffinOne in a Krillion100points
AampoDeep Cut85points
Absinthe fountainDeep Cut85points
Absinthe glassDeep Cut85points
Abura tokkuriDeep Cut85points
Accordion fileDeep Cut85points
AcetabulumDeep Cut85points
Activated sludge tankDeep Cut85points
Aerosol shipperDeep Cut85points
AftabehDeep Cut85points
AgasekeDeep Cut85points
AgelgilDeep Cut85points
Why these answers count
The reveal is enormous, with 2350 recorded answers, and the points curve is steep and revealing: a single answer took 100, 1811 took 85 and 478 took 60, while only 2290 cleared the threshold at all. The 85 band is the heart of it, populated by precise, often archaic or technical nouns such as Aampo, Abura tokkuri, Acetabulum, Agaseke, Alabastron and Alcarraza. Each is unmistakably a container, yet none is the first word a hurried player writes; that gap between recognisability and recall is where the points live. The lone 100, Safety coffin, is a rare compound that is both startling and exactly on category. The 60-point tier looks like the obvious end of the same category: correct, but common enough that a great many players reached it. Rarity is therefore the whole game. A specific historical or regional name earns more than a plain synonym, and a two-word compound that a specialist would recognise beats a single generic noun.
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