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
  • Drill teamRare60points
  • Fastpitch softballRare60points
  • Five-a-side footballRare60points
  • Floor hockeyRare60points
  • FloorballRare60points
  • Football tennisRare60points
  • FootvolleyRare60points
  • Freestyle relayRare60points
  • FutsalRare60points
  • Gaelic footballRare60points
  • GoalballRare60points
  • HorseballRare60points
  • HurlingRare60points
  • Ice danceRare60points
  • Indoor soccerRare60points
  • Jai alaiRare60points
  • KabaddiRare60points
  • KanJamRare60points
  • Kho khoRare60points
  • KickballRare60points
  • KorfballRare60points
  • KubbRare60points
  • Ladder tossRare60points
  • Laser tagRare60points
  • Lawn bowlsRare60points
  • Mixed doublesRare60points
  • NetballRare60points
  • One Day InternationalRare60points
  • PadelRare60points
  • PaintballRare60points
  • Pairs figure skatingRare60points
  • PesäpalloRare60points
  • PétanqueRare60points
  • Powerchair footballRare60points
  • Powerchair hockeyRare60points
  • QuadballRare60points
  • RaftingRare60points
  • Relay raceRare60points
  • RingetteRare60points
  • Roller derbyRare60points
  • Roller hockeyRare60points
  • RoundersRare60points
  • RoundnetRare60points
  • RowingRare60points
  • Rugby leagueRare60points
  • Rugby sevensRare60points
  • SailingRare60points
  • Sepak takrawRare60points
  • ShintyRare60points
  • Sitting volleyballRare60points

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