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
  • Team racing (sailing)Deep Cut85points
  • Team ropingDeep Cut85points
  • Team shootingDeep Cut85points
  • Team show jumpingDeep Cut85points
  • Team ski jumpingDeep Cut85points
  • Team snookerDeep Cut85points
  • Team speedwayDeep Cut85points
  • Team sprintDeep Cut85points
  • Team sprint (cross-country skiing)Deep Cut85points
  • Team squashDeep Cut85points
  • Team sumoDeep Cut85points
  • Team table tennisDeep Cut85points
  • Team taekwondoDeep Cut85points
  • Team tennisDeep Cut85points
  • Team time trialDeep Cut85points
  • Team wheelchair fencingDeep Cut85points
  • Team wrestlingDeep Cut85points
  • TeamGymDeep Cut85points
  • TejoDeep Cut85points
  • Tennis ball cricketDeep Cut85points
  • Tennis poloDeep Cut85points
  • Tent peggingDeep Cut85points
  • Teqball doublesDeep Cut85points
  • TeqvolyDeep Cut85points
  • TetrathlonDeep Cut85points
  • Thai long-boat racingDeep Cut85points
  • Theatre on iceDeep Cut85points
  • ThèqueDeep Cut85points
  • ThodaDeep Cut85points
  • Three-sided footballDeep Cut85points
  • Tip-and-run cricketDeep Cut85points
  • Tiro de laçoDeep Cut85points
  • TiyakadDeep Cut85points
  • TokaDeep Cut85points
  • TorballDeep Cut85points
  • Tornado tag team matchDeep Cut85points
  • Town ballDeep Cut85points
  • Trainera rowingDeep Cut85points
  • Trampoline dodgeballDeep Cut85points
  • TrangleballDeep Cut85points
  • Trios bowlingDeep Cut85points
  • TripletteDeep Cut85points
  • Trobriand cricketDeep Cut85points
  • TrontzaDeep Cut85points
  • TrugoDeep Cut85points
  • TskhenburtiDeep Cut85points
  • Tunnel ballDeep Cut85points
  • Two-on-two basketballDeep Cut85points
  • UlamaDeep Cut85points
  • UltiglockeyDeep 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