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
  • Para equestrian teamDeep Cut85points
  • Para field hockeyDeep Cut85points
  • Para rowingDeep Cut85points
  • Para swimming relayDeep Cut85points
  • Para table tennis team eventDeep Cut85points
  • PärkDeep Cut85points
  • Partially sighted futsalDeep Cut85points
  • Pas de deux (dressage)Deep Cut85points
  • PasakaDeep Cut85points
  • PasolaDeep Cut85points
  • PasuckuakohowogDeep Cut85points
  • PatinteroDeep Cut85points
  • PatoDeep Cut85points
  • Pearl ballDeep Cut85points
  • Pedal car racingDeep Cut85points
  • PeironDeep Cut85points
  • Pelota mixtecaDeep Cut85points
  • Pelota PurépechaDeep Cut85points
  • Pelotica de gomaDeep Cut85points
  • Pencak silat gandaDeep Cut85points
  • PhainindaDeep Cut85points
  • Physical disability rugby leagueDeep Cut85points
  • Pillow poloDeep Cut85points
  • PinnersDeep Cut85points
  • PioneerballDeep Cut85points
  • PiterbasketDeep Cut85points
  • PitkäpalloDeep Cut85points
  • PlaquitaDeep Cut85points
  • Platform tennisDeep Cut85points
  • PodexDeep Cut85points
  • Polish horseshoesDeep Cut85points
  • PolocrosseDeep Cut85points
  • Pom danceDeep Cut85points
  • Pond hockeyDeep Cut85points
  • Pora pol gaseemaDeep Cut85points
  • PrellballDeep Cut85points
  • PrisonballDeep Cut85points
  • Prisoner's baseDeep Cut85points
  • PunchballDeep Cut85points
  • Punjabi kabaddiDeep Cut85points
  • PushballDeep Cut85points
  • QatchDeep Cut85points
  • Quadruple scullsDeep Cut85points
  • QuicksticksDeep Cut85points
  • Rackets doublesDeep Cut85points
  • RallyingDeep Cut85points
  • Ranch rodeoDeep Cut85points
  • Ranch sortingDeep Cut85points
  • RarajipariDeep Cut85points
  • RaspallDeep 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