Name a team sport (no esports, board games or card games)

November 3, 2026 · Daily Dive #111

Explore 960 recorded answers and their points for question 5 on November 3, 2026.

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960 recorded names on November 3, 2026, 820 at 85 or higher. The highest recorded score on this question is 100.

Scan the full spectrum of organised play — from school-yard games and village pastimes to Olympic disciplines — rather than stopping at the few sports televised every weekend. Only genuine team sports count: two or more players working together against opponents with physical effort; esports, board games and card games are excluded.

960 recorded answers820 at 85+ points100 highest recorded points
  • One in a Krillion1100 pts
  • Deep Cut81985 pts
  • Rare11860 pts
  • Schooler1630 pts
  • Plankton610 pts
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Recorded answers

960 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 960
  • Mob footballDeep Cut85points
  • Mod leagueDeep Cut85points
  • Modern pentathlon mixed relayDeep Cut85points
  • MölkkyDeep Cut85points
  • Moscow broomballDeep Cut85points
  • MotoballDeep Cut85points
  • Mountain bike team relayDeep Cut85points
  • Mounted gamesDeep Cut85points
  • Mud volleyballDeep Cut85points
  • Nadan panthu kaliDeep Cut85points
  • NashballDeep Cut85points
  • Native American shinnyDeep Cut85points
  • Native American stickballDeep Cut85points
  • NettaDeep Cut85points
  • New age kurlingDeep Cut85points
  • New Zealand indoor bowlsDeep Cut85points
  • Newcomb ballDeep Cut85points
  • Nine-man footballDeep Cut85points
  • Nine-man volleyballDeep Cut85points
  • Nordic combined teamDeep Cut85points
  • Nouka baichDeep Cut85points
  • NzangoDeep Cut85points
  • Ocean rowingDeep Cut85points
  • Offshore powerboat racingDeep Cut85points
  • Offshore sailingDeep Cut85points
  • OinăDeep Cut85points
  • Old division footballDeep Cut85points
  • OmegaballDeep Cut85points
  • One Goal 4x4Deep Cut85points
  • Open water relayDeep Cut85points
  • OrdoDeep Cut85points
  • Orienteering relayDeep Cut85points
  • Ōtama korogashiDeep Cut85points
  • Outrigger canoe racingDeep Cut85points
  • Over-the-lineDeep Cut85points
  • OzTagDeep Cut85points
  • Pacu jalurDeep Cut85points
  • PadbolDeep Cut85points
  • Paddle tennisDeep Cut85points
  • Paddleball doublesDeep Cut85points
  • PahsahemanDeep Cut85points
  • Pair ski balletDeep Cut85points
  • Pairs lawn bowlsDeep Cut85points
  • PalantDeep Cut85points
  • PalínDeep Cut85points
  • PallaDeep Cut85points
  • PallapugnoDeep Cut85points
  • PalloneDeep Cut85points
  • Pallonetto ligureDeep Cut85points
  • Papi futDeep 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.

Recorded from the game’s published reveal · Source · Checked 3 Nov, 13:30 UTC

Names and scores reflect the linked dated reveal. The original game makes the final decision on live acceptance. Editorial policy