Name something that's naturally blue

November 4, 2026 · Daily Dive #112

Explore 3,880 recorded answers and their points for question 3 on November 4, 2026.

Dated record7 questions · 30,015 recorded answers

3,880 recorded names on November 4, 2026, 3,720 at 85 or higher. The highest recorded score on this question is 100.

Blue is scarce in the natural world, so sweep through living organisms, minerals and celestial objects instead of everyday manufactured items. Count only things that occur in nature without human intervention; synthetic dyes, paints and named commercial products are excluded, however blue they look.

3,880 recorded answers3,720 at 85+ points100 highest recorded points
  • One in a Krillion1100 pts
  • Deep Cut3,71985 pts
  • Rare13260 pts
  • Schooler2030 pts
  • Plankton810 pts
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Recorded answers

3,880 recorded answers

How to approach it

Treat the prompt as a taxonomy exercise rather than a memory test. Sketch four or five large domains where the colour occurs without human help, namely living creatures, minerals, geological formations, celestial objects and optical effects in the atmosphere, then spend a couple of minutes listing everything you can inside each one. The second pass is where the value lies: for every general entry you write, push one level narrower, replacing a broad group with a particular member of it. Precision is what separates a crowded answer from a distinctive one. Keep a shortlist of odd, hard-to-spell names too, since obscure corners of the natural world are exactly where a puzzle like this rewards curiosity. Submit your most specific defensible pick, not your first thought.

Get a hint

Start with the broad kingdoms of life and work downward: the trait turns up in creatures of the air, the water and the leaf, so no single habitat has a monopoly on it.

A little more

Non-living nature is just as productive, since the mineral kingdom, deep geological features and deep space all supply candidates that casual players rarely consider.

One step further

For the biggest score, aim at the narrowest possible label, meaning a single species, one named formation or one particular celestial body, rather than the general family it belongs to.

Reveal answers 3,880
  • Sunshine peacock cichlidDeep Cut85points
  • Superb bird-of-paradiseDeep Cut85points
  • Superb pittaDeep Cut85points
  • Superb starlingDeep Cut85points
  • Supraglacial lakeDeep Cut85points
  • Surucua trogonDeep Cut85points
  • Swallow tanagerDeep Cut85points
  • Swallow-tailed bee-eaterDeep Cut85points
  • Swamp blue-eyeDeep Cut85points
  • Swamp bluetDeep Cut85points
  • SwamphenDeep Cut85points
  • Swan River daisyDeep Cut85points
  • Swartberg BlueDeep Cut85points
  • Swift parrotDeep Cut85points
  • Swinhoe's hedge blueDeep Cut85points
  • Swinhoe's pheasantDeep Cut85points
  • Sylhet oakblueDeep Cut85points
  • Syrian BluetDeep Cut85points
  • Taam Ja' Blue HoleDeep Cut85points
  • Tablas Island Blue HoleDeep Cut85points
  • Tahiti swallowDeep Cut85points
  • Taiga bluetDeep Cut85points
  • Tailed disc oakblueDeep Cut85points
  • Tailed Green-Banded Line BlueDeep Cut85points
  • Tailed Meadow BlueDeep Cut85points
  • Tailless bushblueDeep Cut85points
  • Tailless line blueDeep Cut85points
  • Tailless plushblueDeep Cut85points
  • Taiwan blue magpieDeep Cut85points
  • Taiwan vivid niltavaDeep Cut85points
  • Taiwan whistling thrushDeep Cut85points
  • TakahēDeep Cut85points
  • Talaud kingfisherDeep Cut85points
  • Talbot's Ciliate BlueDeep Cut85points
  • Tall Blue LettuceDeep Cut85points
  • Tamil oakblueDeep Cut85points
  • Tamolitch Blue PoolDeep Cut85points
  • Tamul WaterfallDeep Cut85points
  • Tanahjampea Blue FlycatcherDeep Cut85points
  • Tanimbar blue-tongued skinkDeep Cut85points
  • Tanimbar eclectusDeep Cut85points
  • TantalumDeep Cut85points
  • Tantalus monkeyDeep Cut85points
  • Tarantula hawkDeep Cut85points
  • Taygetos BlueDeep Cut85points
  • Te Waihou Blue SpringDeep Cut85points
  • Te Waikoropupū SpringsDeep Cut85points
  • Temminck's tragopanDeep Cut85points
  • TernesiteDeep Cut85points
  • Texas cichlidDeep Cut85points

Why these answers count

The reveal is enormous, 3,824 accepted answers, yet almost all of them sit in a single band: 3,646 entries earned 85 points and only 150 settled for 60. That shape tells you the puzzle rewards specificity rather than popularity. The 60-point group is the small pool of broad, obvious picks that nearly every player reaches for first, and sharing them costs you. The 85-point tier is the sweet spot, filled with precise labels that most people would never produce: Aberrant oakblue, Abyss Pool and Achernar each scored 85, along with thousands of similarly narrow names. Only one answer, Marble berry, touched 100, which suggests the top band was reserved for the single most obscure defensible entry in the set. In practice, a two-word scientific or geographic name beats a one-word everyday one, and anything a child would say in the first five seconds is almost certainly a 60.

Recorded from the game’s published reveal · Source · Checked 4 Nov, 12:25 UTC

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