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
  • Doubles squashDeep Cut85points
  • DoubletteDeep Cut85points
  • Downside ball gameDeep Cut85points
  • Dressage quadrilleDeep Cut85points
  • Drone soccerDeep Cut85points
  • Duathlon mixed relayDeep Cut85points
  • DueballDeep Cut85points
  • DuilianDeep Cut85points
  • Duo NormandDeep Cut85points
  • EarthballDeep Cut85points
  • EcuavolleyDeep Cut85points
  • Egg tossDeep Cut85points
  • Eight-a-side footballDeep Cut85points
  • Eight-man footballDeep Cut85points
  • EkidenDeep Cut85points
  • Elephant footballDeep Cut85points
  • Elephant poloDeep Cut85points
  • ElleDeep Cut85points
  • EndballDeep Cut85points
  • Endurance racingDeep Cut85points
  • EpiskyrosDeep Cut85points
  • Equestrian drill teamDeep Cut85points
  • Escala i cordaDeep Cut85points
  • Escaramuza charraDeep Cut85points
  • Eton field gameDeep Cut85points
  • Eton fivesDeep Cut85points
  • Eton wall gameDeep Cut85points
  • Extreme baseballDeep Cut85points
  • Faroese rowingDeep Cut85points
  • Fast5Deep Cut85points
  • Fautasi racingDeep Cut85points
  • Feather bowlingDeep Cut85points
  • Field gunDeep Cut85points
  • Field handballDeep Cut85points
  • Finswimming relayDeep Cut85points
  • Firefighting sportDeep Cut85points
  • FistballDeep Cut85points
  • FlickerballDeep Cut85points
  • Flippa ballDeep Cut85points
  • FlyballDeep Cut85points
  • FoobaskillDeep Cut85points
  • Foot hockeyDeep Cut85points
  • ForcebackDeep Cut85points
  • Formation danceDeep Cut85points
  • Formation skydivingDeep Cut85points
  • Four skatingDeep Cut85points
  • Four-ballDeep Cut85points
  • Fours (lawn bowls)Deep Cut85points
  • FoursomesDeep Cut85points
  • FowlingDeep 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, 09:15 UTC

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