November 5, 2026, Dive #113, stores 8,416 names. The longest list is “Name a type of dress” (3,518 recorded) and the shortest is “Name a country that shares a land border with at least four other countries” (84). 7,434 score 85 or higher.
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8,416 recorded names7,434 at 85 or higher7 questions with an 85+ name
The reliable way in is to sort candidates by taxon rather than by memory. Make a short list of broad groups whose members are built for speed on land, then populate each group with the specific species and recognised breeds you can actually name. Check top sprint speeds only as a tie-breaker, because almost everything in those groups clears the human benchmark comfortably. Precision pays: a named subspecies, breed or regional variety beats a generic label, and it also signals that you know the group well. Keep a few unusual entries in reserve so your list does not read like the first page of a field guide. Finally, sanity-check that each entry really is an animal that runs, rather than one that swims, flies or merely hops now and then.
Get a hint
Start with the open habitats: grasslands, savannas and dry plains reward any species that can put metres between itself and a pursuer within seconds.
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Then widen the frame to body plans built for stride length and elastic tendons, and remember that raw speed is not reserved for hunters or for the hunted.
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Finally, consider that the pool includes wild carnivores, hoofed grazers, long-eared sprinters, marsupials that bound upright and a handful of heavy flightless birds, so familiar and obscure picks both qualify.
Reveal answers 339
Patas monkeyOne in a Krillion100points
Abyssinian catDeep Cut85points
Afghan HoundDeep Cut85points
African buffaloDeep Cut85points
African golden wolfDeep Cut85points
African savanna hareDeep Cut85points
African wild assDeep Cut85points
Agile wallabyDeep Cut85points
Airedale TerrierDeep Cut85points
Akhal-TekeDeep Cut85points
Alaskan hareDeep Cut85points
Alaskan MalamuteDeep Cut85points
Why these answers count
The distribution is unusually flat: 319 of 339 entries reached at least 60 points, and the bulk of them, 237 answers, sat at 85. That band is where named, checkable species and breeds land: Borzoi and Saluki, Thomson's gazelle and Gemsbok, Arctic hare and Cape hare, Afghan Hound and Azawakh all appear at 85. Rarer picks earn more simply because fewer players surface them, so the reward tracks how deep into the pool you can reach rather than how quickly you answer. The 81 answers at 60 look like the crowded end of the set, the obvious labels many players reach for first. At the other extreme a single answer, Patas monkey, took 100, and that is the pattern worth copying: a real, verifiable animal that most people would not think of before the famous sprinters. Specificity separates the tiers, because a recognised breed or subspecies reads as knowledge while a broad label reads as a guess.
Name a movie from Pixar, DreamWorks Animation, Illumination, Walt Disney Animation Studios, Sony Pictures Animation or Blue Sky Studios
212 recorded answers
How to approach it
Treat the six studios as six separate slates and walk each one year by year instead of recalling favourites. Cross out every title with a merchandising line, a ride or a franchise sequel still in cinemas; those are the picks everyone else makes. What remains is the useful stock: early hand-drawn features, mid-budget originals that underperformed, straight-to-video continuations, holiday material expanded to feature length, and overseas co-productions. Check each candidate against the rule that the studio produced it rather than merely distributed it, and that it ran to feature length. Then rank your shortlist by how long it takes an average player to recall the title, and play the one with the longest delay.
Get a hint
Work backwards from the scoring: a title only pays when the crowd misses it, and the ones with the widest cultural footprint were claimed in the first seconds of the round.
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Read the six catalogues as release calendars rather than greatest-hits lists, lingering on the lean stretches, the contract years and the follow-ups that skipped cinemas entirely.
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The richest seam is feature-length but footnote-shaped: compilation packages, continuations that arrived a decade or two late, and co-productions whose original-market title barely crossed a border.
Reveal answers 212
Make Mine MusicOne in a Krillion100points
AbominableDeep Cut85points
Arthur ChristmasDeep Cut85points
Atlantis: The Lost EmpireDeep Cut85points
BoltDeep Cut85points
Brother BearDeep Cut85points
Captain Underpants: The First Epic MovieDeep Cut85points
Chicken LittleDeep Cut85points
Chicken RunDeep Cut85points
DinosaurDeep Cut85points
Dog ManDeep Cut85points
EpicDeep Cut85points
Why these answers count
The distribution in this round is unusually generous at the top and harsh at the bottom: 138 of the 212 recorded titles reached 60 points or better, which leaves 74 in the low band, and those are precisely the films a group produces in the first few seconds. Familiarity is punished because the scoring measures how few players land on the same title, so a household name that a hundred people type is worth a fraction of an entry only a handful remembers. The single 100-point slot went to Make Mine Music, a package feature almost nobody lists first, while a dense middle tier of 67 titles sat at 85: Abominable, Strange World, The Rescuers Down Under and The Black Cauldron all landed there, together with straight-to-video continuations and modest spin-offs. Seventy answers clustered at 60, the reward for being merely unglamorous rather than genuinely obscure. The lesson is that the gap between a forgotten sequel and a forgotten anthology is worth more than the gap between a hit and a flop.
Work outward from the plainest reading of the phrase and keep sharpening it. Start with whatever is drunk from a cup at home, move to café menus, then to bottled and canned lines, then to cocktails and liquid desserts. At every stage ask whether the dairy element forms the body of the drink or merely decorates it, because the second group is where most recorded answers sit. Switch languages freely: something that sounds exotic in one market is an ordinary supermarket staple in another, and both spellings can count. Favour precision over popularity, since a descriptive trade name, a regional nickname or an outdated culinary term outranks a generic category word. List many candidates before committing, then pick the one that reads least like a dictionary headword.
Get a hint
Begin with what actually gets poured in daily life: the morning glass, the after-dinner cup, the impulse buy from a chiller cabinet. Then notice how many of those are dairy-led rather than merely dairy-splashed.
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Next, work region by region. Nearly every dairy-keeping country has a warm spiced version, a cold sweetened version and a fermented version of the same idea, each with its own name and its own spelling, and all of them are fair game.
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Finally chase precision. Carton trade names, bar-menu cream drinks and archaic kitchen words for thickened or curdled preparations are the least-guessed corners; search labels, recipe indexes and drinks lists instead of generic nouns.
Reveal answers 1,640
PossetOne in a Krillion100points
7 Brew BlondieDeep Cut85points
747Deep Cut85points
911Deep Cut85points
A38Deep Cut85points
Aarong chocolate milkDeep Cut85points
Aavin flavoured milkDeep Cut85points
ABCDeep Cut85points
AbuelitaDeep Cut85points
AccafelaDeep Cut85points
Ace cocktailDeep Cut85points
AcidophilineDeep Cut85points
Why these answers count
The spread is remarkably flat: 1,480 of the 1,611 scoring entries landed in the same 85-point band, which says the grader accepted almost any genuine, specific drink and penalised only the obvious. The lone 100-point entry, Posset (100), shows the ceiling clearly, being an old kitchen word for a thickened milk preparation that hardly anyone reaches for; it was logged once, so scarcity rather than difficulty of meaning drove the score. Picks such as Aavin flavoured milk (85) or Acidophilus milk (85) settled in the crowded middle: branded, regional or technical enough to be interesting, yet still findable by anyone familiar with dairy products. The 130 entries at 60 points were most likely the ones that barely left the prompt, the standard coffee-shop and dessert staples printed on every menu. The practical lesson is that the middle band is vast and easy to hit, so real gain comes from stepping just past it: a carton trade name, a dialect term or an archaic preparation, spelled correctly.
Name a country that shares a land border with at least four other countries
84 recorded answers
How to approach it
Treat the map as a graph and work outward. First, fix the rule in your head: sovereign states, land boundaries only, each neighbouring state counted once however long the shared line is. Next, sweep continents one at a time and ask which territories sit in the middle of a cluster rather than at its edge, because coastal and island states rarely accumulate enough separate neighbours. For each candidate that surfaces, count clockwise around the outline and stop the moment you reach four, since a partial trace confirms it. If a name stalls at three, set it aside and try a denser neighbourhood instead of forcing the count. Finally, prefer ordinary picks over showy ones; the scoring rewards the answer most players reach, and the plain interior state is usually it.
Get a hint
The count depends on geometry more than politics: a long, jagged outline in a crowded part of a continent beats a large but isolated territory every time.
A little more
Filter by the shape of the neighbourhood rather than by size: republics wedged into continental interiors, and small states sitting in dense clusters, are the profiles that clear four most often.
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Promising candidates often carry one long frontier with a single large neighbour plus several short ones stacked along the same edge, an asymmetric pattern worth looking for before you commit.
Reveal answers 84
MontenegroOne in a Krillion100points
AngolaDeep Cut85points
Burkina FasoDeep Cut85points
CameroonDeep Cut85points
Central African RepublicDeep Cut85points
ColombiaDeep Cut85points
GuatemalaDeep Cut85points
GuineaDeep Cut85points
Republic of the CongoDeep Cut85points
SenegalDeep Cut85points
TajikistanDeep Cut85points
AfghanistanRare60points
Why these answers count
Scoring here ran inversely to familiarity. The 49 answers parked at 60 points are the ones that arrive first: big, famous, unmistakably central territories whose borders are common knowledge, plus a long tail of states that sit in crowded regions and are easy to reel off, such as Afghanistan, Albania, Algeria, Armenia, Azerbaijan and Belarus. Value came from the second-tier finds, the ones that qualify on inspection rather than instinct: Angola, Burkina Faso, Cameroon, the Central African Republic, Colombia, Guatemala, Guinea, the Republic of the Congo, Senegal and Tajikistan each drew 85. These are countries players know exist but rarely reach for when counting neighbours, so each was named by only a handful of entrants. Above them sits a single outlier: Montenegro, the only answer worth 100 points, offered by exactly one player. A small state that few would picture first, it cleared four borders comfortably and, precisely because almost nobody thought of it, paid the maximum. Rarity, not obscurity for its own sake, set the price.
Name a god from mythology (Hindu, Greek, Roman, Norse or Egyptian)
2,433 recorded answers
How to approach it
The winning move is volume plus obscurity, so treat the prompt as a scavenger hunt through the back of the reference book rather than a quiz on famous deities. Pick one tradition and walk its alphabet from the first entry to the last, writing down every named power you meet, including those attached to a single household task, a season, a river or an emotion. Abstract nouns that were worshipped as persons are especially productive. Epithets and local variants of a well-known figure often have entries of their own, and compound names built from two elements count as separate entries. Before you commit, prune anything that is really a mortal, a ruler or a plain literary character, since a wrong category costs more than a blank.
Get a hint
Start with the fringes of each tradition rather than its best-known figures: every pantheon has hundreds of named minor powers that never appear in a schoolbook.
A little more
Think about what kinds of entities get their own names: guardians of a single household chore, personified emotions, spirits of a particular hour, protectors of a doorway or a boundary.
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The reveal here is dominated by long, hyphenated, vowel-heavy names compiled by Victorian cataloguers, plus Roman abstractions; if a name sounds like a label for a function, it probably qualified.
Reveal answers 2,433
CloacinaOne in a Krillion100points
AaDeep Cut85points
Aa-T-ShefitDeep Cut85points
AaiDeep Cut85points
AakhuDeep Cut85points
Aakhu-hetch-tDeep Cut85points
Aakhu-raDeep Cut85points
Aakhu-sa-ta-fDeep Cut85points
AakhuiDeep Cut85points
AaniDeep Cut85points
AatDeep Cut85points
AatiDeep Cut85points
Why these answers count
Scoring here tracks obscurity almost perfectly. The single hundred-point answer, Cloacina, is a Roman goddess of the sewer whose name most players would never reach, and it sits alone at the top because almost nobody thinks of her. The vast middle band at eighty-five points is stuffed with names like Aa, Abundantia and Acca Larentia: genuine entries from the reference literature, but far enough from everyday knowledge that they feel like finds. Only a hundred and ten answers sit at sixty, the band the puzzle treats as acceptable rather than impressive, and thirty fell below the cut entirely. Rarity, not importance, is the currency: a household spirit nobody has heard of outscores a sky-father every time, because the scoring rewards the answer fewer players will duplicate. When you are choosing between a famous name and a marginal one, the marginal one is worth more even though it feels like a risk.
Work from the edges inward. Begin by recalling costume-history literature rather than shop terminology: survey volumes, ethnographic atlases and museum catalogues are full of named garments, and each entry there is a candidate. Move through the world region by region in your head, asking what a community's distinctive outfit is called in its own spelling, and prefer the transcription that locals use over a translated label. Test each candidate mentally against the wording of the question: it must be a dress or a complete outfit worn as one, not an accessory, a textile or a hairstyle. Finally, rank your shortlist by obscurity and submit the least familiar name you can defend, because the scoring rewards the deep end of the list rather than the first thing that comes to mind.
Get a hint
Begin at the widest frame: the puzzle accepts an enormous number of entries, so nearly every recognised garment name in the costume literature has a home here.
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Narrow by source type — ethnographic studies, regional dress surveys and museum accession records list thousands of named pieces that never appear in ordinary fashion writing.
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Then push toward the least familiar end: a name recorded in a single locality, written the way its own community spells it, usually outscores anything a general reader could produce unaided.
Reveal answers 3,518
Letty Lynton dressOne in a Krillion100points
Aari Kashida sareeDeep Cut85points
AbhoDeep Cut85points
Abkhaz dressDeep Cut85points
Aboyne dressDeep Cut85points
Abrene white costumeDeep Cut85points
Abruzzese costumeDeep Cut85points
Abu al-Ghait dressDeep Cut85points
Abu DarinDeep Cut85points
Abu dhailDeep Cut85points
Abu Rawash dressDeep Cut85points
Achang dressDeep Cut85points
Why these answers count
The scoring here is unusually flat and unusually deep. Of the 3,518 recorded entries, 3,488 cleared the 60-point bar, and 3,204 of those sat at exactly 85 — a vast middle band of regional and historical garments that the puzzle recognises but most players would never reach. Only 283 answers landed at 60, and those are the obvious, everyday choices that a large share of players type first; the score reflects how common the guess is, so the familiar picks earn least. Just one entry reached 100: Letty Lynton dress, an obscure screen-costume name that almost nobody produces unaided. The lesson is visible in the sample: Aari Kashida saree, Abho and Abkhaz dress all score 85, not because they are famous but because they are specific and rarely attempted. Rarity, not correctness, separates the bands, so the winning move is a real named garment from the far end of the costume literature.
The winning move is breadth before depth. Give yourself a short clock and write down every domain in which an inflatable object appears: clinical instruments, surgical tools, flight and field-research equipment, festive decoration, toys, industrial fittings, textiles and regional folk customs. Then push each domain toward its technical vocabulary, because common words are what everyone else will also submit and the scoring rewards the crowded middle far more than the obvious one. Work through compound patterns too, since many accepted entries are a material, a shape, a coating or a function attached to the base word. Keep every candidate a specialist would recognise as a standalone term and drop anything you invented on the spot. Aim for roughly twenty-five plausible entries before you stop.
Get a hint
Start with the settings where an inflatable object does a job rather than just decorates: wards, workshops, fairgrounds, laboratories and building sites each keep a vocabulary of their own.
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Then split each candidate into physical axes such as material, coating, shape and filling gas, and try joining them to the base term, because that is where a large share of accepted entries comes from.
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Finally, work the narrow end: named procedures and instruments in which the inflatable part carries a formal term of its own, plus ordinary toys whose names survive as a single word.
Reveal answers 190
Planetary balloonOne in a Krillion100points
Advertising balloonDeep Cut85points
AirWalker balloonDeep Cut85points
Animal bladder balloonDeep Cut85points
Apple balloonDeep Cut85points
Atrial septostomy balloonDeep Cut85points
Bakri balloonDeep Cut85points
Balão juninoDeep Cut85points
Balloon lightDeep Cut85points
Balloon satelliteDeep Cut85points
Balloon void formerDeep Cut85points
BalloonicleDeep Cut85points
Why these answers count
The reveal is unusually deep: 190 recorded answers, with 182 of them clearing sixty points, which says the scoring here rewards vocabulary rather than guesswork. Only one entry reached the top band, Planetary balloon at 100, and it is exactly the kind of compound almost nobody produces against the clock, which is why it stands alone. The 137 answers in the 85-point band read like a tour of specialist glossaries: Atrial septostomy balloon, Bakri balloon, Cryoballoon, Cinebulle, Donut balloon, Advertising balloon, AirWalker balloon. Each is a real, lookup-able term from medicine, marketing, aviation or regional custom, and each was presumably offered by very few players. The 44 answers at 60 points form the more familiar end of that same spectrum. Nothing in the upper group looks like a plain everyday word, so the pattern is simple: the stranger and more domain-specific the term, the fewer people share it, and the fewer people share it, the higher it lands.
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