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

November 3, 2026 · Daily Dive #111

Explore 938 recorded answers and their points for question 5 on November 3, 2026.

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938 recorded names on November 3, 2026, 798 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.

938 recorded answers798 at 85+ points100 highest recorded points
  • One in a Krillion1100 pts
  • Deep Cut79785 pts
  • Rare11860 pts
  • Schooler1630 pts
  • Plankton610 pts
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Recorded answers

938 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 938
  • BunnockDeep Cut85points
  • BuroinjinDeep Cut85points
  • BuzkashiDeep Cut85points
  • CageballDeep Cut85points
  • CaidDeep Cut85points
  • Calcio storicoDeep Cut85points
  • Cambridge rules footballDeep Cut85points
  • Camel poloDeep Cut85points
  • CammagDeep Cut85points
  • Camp ballDeep Cut85points
  • Canadian doublesDeep Cut85points
  • Canoe doublesDeep Cut85points
  • Canoe foursDeep Cut85points
  • Canoe slalom teamDeep Cut85points
  • Canopy formation skydivingDeep Cut85points
  • Carpet curlingDeep Cut85points
  • CastellsDeep Cut85points
  • Catamaran racingDeep Cut85points
  • Celtic longboat racingDeep Cut85points
  • CestoballDeep Cut85points
  • Chair ballDeep Cut85points
  • Chajeon noriDeep Cut85points
  • Chapman (golf)Deep Cut85points
  • CharreadaDeep Cut85points
  • ChaskeleDeep Cut85points
  • ChazaDeep Cut85points
  • Cherokee marblesDeep Cut85points
  • Chilean rodeoDeep Cut85points
  • ChinloneDeep Cut85points
  • ChovganDeep Cut85points
  • Chuckwagon racingDeep Cut85points
  • Church boat rowingDeep Cut85points
  • Circle dodgeballDeep Cut85points
  • Circle rules footballDeep Cut85points
  • CnapanDeep Cut85points
  • Coast Salish canoe racingDeep Cut85points
  • Coastal rowingDeep Cut85points
  • ColpbolDeep Cut85points
  • Competitive marchingDeep Cut85points
  • Composite rules shinty–hurlingDeep Cut85points
  • Continuous cricketDeep Cut85points
  • CorkballDeep Cut85points
  • Corner ballDeep Cut85points
  • Cornish hurlingDeep Cut85points
  • Cowboy poloDeep Cut85points
  • Coxed eightDeep Cut85points
  • Coxed fourDeep Cut85points
  • Coxed pairDeep Cut85points
  • Coxed quadruple scullsDeep Cut85points
  • Coxless fourDeep 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, 08:15 UTC

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