November 6, 2026, Dive #114, stores 8,520 names. The longest list is “Name a high-protein food ingredient—at least 8g of protein per 100g.” (3,468 recorded) and the shortest is “Name a country with "and" in its name” (22). 6,630 score 85 or higher.
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8,520 recorded names6,630 at 85 or higher7 questions with an 85+ name
Name a fruit or vegetable that is red on the inside.
147 recorded answers
How to approach it
Treat the wording as two separate tests and settle both before answering. First, decide how wide your reading of fruit and vegetable is going to be: culinary categories, botanical ones, and the grey zone of things cooks treat as vegetables while botanists insist they are fruit all qualify, so a generous net costs nothing. Second, concentrate on interior colour rather than outside appearance, since skin misleads more often than it helps. Then travel along a spectrum from everyday shopping to specialist growers' lists, heritage cultivars, wild foraging and edible fungi. Jot down several candidates and choose the one you can defend in a sentence. Obscurity carries the points, so the obvious answer that arrived first is usually the weakest. Keep one reserve in mind in case your opening pick feels too common.
Get a hint
Begin with the produce you handle every week and ask which of those items would surprise a cook who sliced one open for the first time.
A little more
Then widen the search to tropical stalls, wild hedges, allotment beds, heritage seed catalogues and the edible fungi that foragers carry home in a basket.
One step further
Narrow it down to the unusual end of that list: old cultivars selected for deep colour, little-known wild species and a few mushrooms whose cut flesh darkens within minutes.
Reveal answers 147
Beefsteak fungusOne in a Krillion100points
African peachDeep Cut85points
Arctic raspberryDeep Cut85points
Atherton raspberryDeep Cut85points
Autumn oliveDeep Cut85points
Benikururi daikonDeep Cut85points
Bilberry cactus fruitDeep Cut85points
Blood limeDeep Cut85points
Blood mandarinDeep Cut85points
Blood nectarineDeep Cut85points
Blood peachDeep Cut85points
Blood pearDeep Cut85points
Why these answers count
Scoring tracks obscurity almost perfectly on this question. The lone 100-point answer, Beefsteak fungus, is a foraged fungus that barely anyone would name under time pressure, and it sits alone at the summit for precisely that reason. The enormous 85-point band, a hundred and nineteen entries, is filled with plants that growers and foragers know and shoppers mostly do not: African peach, Arctic raspberry, Blood lime, Cara Cara orange and Karonda all land there beside dozens of similar heritage and wild species. The 60-point tier of fourteen catches the semi-familiar middle ground, names a curious cook might reach after a moment's thought but would never pick up in a normal shop. Everything underneath is where the obvious picks finish, because hundreds of players converge on the same small set of famous produce and the scale is calibrated against that crowd. Rarity, far more than accuracy, decides the score.
Name a setting you can change in a video game’s settings.
1,490 recorded answers
How to approach it
Settle on a single title you know intimately and traverse its options screen from the first tab to the last, reading every row as it is printed. Jot down everything, awkward compound names and parenthetical qualifiers included, then cross out only what you cannot honestly place on a real menu. Depth beats breadth here: one well-remembered screen can yield a dozen usable labels, whereas free-associating across many titles tends to produce vague, generic phrasing that lands in the lowest scoring band. Where two candidates feel equally valid, submit the one whose wording is more specific and less like something every game would carry.
Get a hint
Start from the menu architecture itself: nearly every game splits its options into a few tabs, and beneath each tab sits a dense cluster of adjustable entries worth naming one by one.
A little more
Drift away from the obvious sliders toward the toggles, dropdowns and numeric fields beside them, since the small, strangely worded controls are where a list like this finds its depth.
One step further
Recall the exact on-screen phrasing, hyphens and bracketed qualifiers included, because recognition lands on the literal label rather than on a loose description of what it does.
Reveal answers 1,490
Arachnophobia modeOne in a Krillion100points
24-hour clockDeep Cut85points
360 dashingDeep Cut85points
A+B smashDeep Cut85points
Ability cooldown displayDeep Cut85points
Ability mini-camDeep Cut85points
Accelerated clockDeep Cut85points
Accessibility audio cues volumeDeep Cut85points
Accessibility presetsDeep Cut85points
Achievement notificationsDeep Cut85points
Action barsDeep Cut85points
Action cameraDeep Cut85points
Why these answers count
The spread is remarkably flat: 1452 of the 1490 recorded entries clear sixty points, with 1246 of those parked at eighty-five, so the middle of the board is crowded and sheer oddity buys less than it appears to. The lone hundred-point entry, Arachnophobia mode (100), shows that the summit belongs to whatever is both genuine and startling; beside it, 24-hour clock (85) and Ability cooldown display (85) illustrate the ordinary shape of a high scorer, a plain option named with the words a menu would actually print. The 205 entries sitting at sixty read the opposite way: broad, generic descriptions that could fit any title and therefore feel interchangeable. Because only one answer occupies the top, hunting it is a lottery, and the wiser play is a volume of precise, verifiable labels rather than a single exotic guess.
Work the list in two passes. First, run through every country whose usual name is a union of two elements, and write each one down before judging it, because jumping straight to the famous few is how players leave easy points on the table. Second, switch to a purely visual scan: read each remaining name letter by letter and ask whether the sequence could be sitting across a syllable boundary rather than standing alone. Keep spelling variants and accented forms in mind, since a name written with diacritics still contains the same letters underneath. Order your final list by how obscure the match feels; the buried ones are worth more than the ones anyone can spot at a glance.
Get a hint
Start where countries wear long, ceremonial names made of two halves, since that construction is the most visible place the three letters turn up in plain sight.
A little more
Once those are exhausted, stop reading for whole words and start reading for letters, because plenty of entries hide the sequence across a syllable break or inside a geographical suffix.
One step further
Finish by sweeping the short one-word names too, especially the ones that tuck the sequence near the opening or the closing letters, the two spots the eye skips fastest.
Reveal answers 22
Solomon IslandsOne in a Krillion100points
Marshall IslandsDeep Cut85points
RwandaDeep Cut85points
AndorraRare60points
Antigua and BarbudaRare60points
Bosnia and HerzegovinaRare60points
Northern IrelandRare60points
Saint Kitts and NevisRare60points
Saint Vincent and the GrenadinesRare60points
São Tomé and PríncipeRare60points
Trinidad and TobagoRare60points
UgandaRare60points
Why these answers count
The spread across the reveal is really a story about visibility. Every answer where the three letters sit in plain sight as a separate word came back at the base rate of 60: Antigua and Barbuda, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Trinidad and Tobago, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, Saint Kitts and Nevis and São Tomé and Príncipe all landed there, and so did Northern Ireland. Andorra and Uganda, where the sequence is jammed into a short single word rather than spread across a compound, also settled at 60. The panel clearly reached for the compound names first and stopped. The premium went to matches you have to hunt for: Rwanda and Marshall Islands at 85, and Solomon Islands alone at 100, all cases where the letters are buried inside a longer word and easy to read past. Fewer players think of them, so the scoring rewards them. With twelve of twenty-two answers clearing 60, the middle of the board was crowded and only the genuinely obscure picks separated anyone.
Name something players aim at to score in a sport (like a hoop).
200 recorded answers
How to approach it
Work through sport families rather than trying to recall one famous example. Begin with the big ball games, then move to target sports, cue and table games, athletic field events, combat disciplines, and the long tail of traditional pastimes played in villages, courtyards, and schoolyards. For each family, ask what the scoring action is directed at: a raised circle, a marked patch of ground, a small object on a stand, a line judged by an official. Note that many sports have several such things at once, a scoring device beside a decoy or a defender, and only the first belongs on the list. Jot down every candidate in plain language, preferring names tied to one single game over generic words, because the precise and unfamiliar earn the most.
Get a hint
Start with the widest possible field: every sport that has a scoring action, including minority, traditional and indoor games played in a single room or on a patch of grass.
A little more
Then narrow by function rather than by shape: what matters is that players deliberately send the ball, projectile, or their own body toward the thing in order to score.
One step further
Finally check whether the candidate is a physical object, a marked surface, or a reference that officials judge; the rarer regional names tend to be worth the most.
Reveal answers 200
DedansOne in a Krillion100points
12 ringDeep Cut85points
20 holeDeep Cut85points
200 holeDeep Cut85points
A-zoneDeep Cut85points
Accuracy frameDeep Cut85points
AisDeep Cut85points
AlkaDeep Cut85points
Annie's roomDeep Cut85points
AsykDeep Cut85points
Back zone (oină)Deep Cut85points
BalloonDeep Cut85points
Why these answers count
The reveal is top-heavy and oddly flat at the same time: 189 recorded answers reached at least sixty points, yet only one of them touched the maximum, and the rest bunch into two tight bands. Dedans at 100 shows how far a single recondite term can travel, since very few players could have produced a word from such a specialised court game. The eighty-five tier is crowded with precise but half-familiar labels: 12 ring, Disc golf basket, Bowling pocket, Crokinole scoring rings. Each names one exact feature of one exact game, so the answer reads as earned knowledge rather than a hopeful guess. At sixty sit eighteen answers, the floor of the paid band, and these look like the obvious, broadly shared targets that thousands of casual players would write down first. The pattern is consistent throughout: obscurity is the currency. A famous target gets credit for being right, while a name that only an enthusiast could supply is treated as proof of depth and paid accordingly.
Name a high-protein food ingredient—at least 8g of protein per 100g.
3,468 recorded answers
How to approach it
Work the answer space systematically rather than free-associating. Start by listing every aisle a nutrition database covers: freshwater and marine catch, game and offal, pressed and aged dairy, cured and fermented preparations, milled flours and powders, oil-bearing kernels and tree nuts, edible insects, and traditional protein sources from outside Europe. For each aisle, push past the obvious representative toward the regional, the artisanal and the nearly forgotten, because scoring rewards depth of recall, not popularity. Then sanity-check density: anything watery, sugary or mostly fat will miss the threshold, so favour items that are dry, pressed or concentrated. Finally, write the name as precisely as the source would: a specific variety or protected local style beats a broad category every time.
Get a hint
The qualifying set is much broader than any gym-food shortlist: it reaches into every aisle of a food-composition table, including items nobody would serve on their own.
A little more
Ask yourself which entries a nutrition database would log as its own line: the more regional, artisanal or oddly specific the name, the likelier it is to appear and to pay well.
One step further
Favour anything dense once water is gone: pressed and aged preparations, dried or milled powders, small oil-bearing kernels and protein sources from cuisines far outside the Anglosphere. A precise name matters more than fame.
Reveal answers 3,468
TungrymbaiOne in a Krillion100points
AarewasserDeep Cut85points
AbazaDeep Cut85points
Abbaye de BellocDeep Cut85points
Abbaye de BelvalDeep Cut85points
Abbaye de CiteauxDeep Cut85points
Abbaye de TamiéDeep Cut85points
Abbaye de TimadeucDeep Cut85points
Abbaye du Mont des CatsDeep Cut85points
AbertamDeep Cut85points
AbondanceDeep Cut85points
Acai powderDeep Cut85points
Why these answers count
The distribution is unusually flat at the top: of 3423 scoring answers, 3014 sit at 85 points, 408 at 60, and exactly one reached 100 with Tungrymbai. That shape tells you the game rewards specificity, not fame. The 85-point band is crowded with highly particular names — Abaza, Adyghe cheese, Acai powder, African yam bean, Anchovy paste — each a distinct line item in a food-composition table. They earn heavily because the answer set is built from an exhaustive ingredient database rather than a popularity poll, so an obscure regional cheese or a little-known seed is worth as much as a household staple, and often more than a broad term many players would submit. The 60-point tier collects answers that are correct but coarser or more commonly offered. The single 100-point hit, Tungrymbai, shows the ceiling: a fermented preparation so specific that almost nobody else names it.
Name a way a person can feel, emotionally or physically (one word only)
1,857 recorded answers
How to approach it
A planned sweep through the lexicon beats waiting for one memory to surface. Begin with a column of a dozen words you would say aloud, confirming each is a single word with no hyphen. Run that column through a thesaurus in both directions, collecting near-equivalents on either side of every starting point. Then enter registers most players skip: older vocabulary, regional speech, and clinical or psychological labels. Participles that portray a person rather than an action deserve a place too. Because rarity drives the scoring, depth in one narrow register pays better than scattering effort over predictable choices. Drop any candidate that needs an article, a helping verb or a comparison, and submit the single strongest word you have.
Get a hint
Begin with the words anyone would produce inside a minute, then treat that list as a floor rather than a goal, since the rest of the field writes exactly the same handful of obvious choices.
A little more
Notice how the recorded entries are shaped: many are lone adjectives, plenty are participles that portray a person instead of an action, and a few are nouns naming a condition rather than a sensation.
One step further
Then move to the less-visited shelves of the dictionary, where regional speech, older vocabulary and clinical or psychological labels wait, because distance from daily conversation is what the ranking rewards.
Reveal answers 1,857
VerklemptOne in a Krillion100points
AbasedDeep Cut85points
AbashedDeep Cut85points
AbhorrenceDeep Cut85points
AbjectDeep Cut85points
AblazeDeep Cut85points
AbnormalDeep Cut85points
AbsolvedDeep Cut85points
AbsorbedDeep Cut85points
AbstractedDeep Cut85points
AcceptingDeep Cut85points
AccusedDeep Cut85points
Why these answers count
The point spread carries one clear lesson. Only one entry reached the ceiling, Verklempt at 100, which hints that the very top was reserved for a term almost nobody retrieves from memory. The 85-point band is where the contest actually lives: close to a thousand entries sit there, among them Abased, Acedia and Ataraxia, and that cluster shows literary, archaic and clinical vocabulary paid far above everyday speech. The 60-point band absorbed the popular picks, the ones most players write first. What separated the scores was not precision so much as rarity. A genuine, exact and seldom-spoken term will nearly always outrank an obvious one typed in two seconds, because hundreds of strangers typed that same obvious thing. The practical lesson is to comb the edges of the dictionary rather than its centre, and to trust that a strange but real word is worth submitting.
Name something people wear that is designed for protection (everyday clothing doesn’t count)
1,336 recorded answers
How to approach it
Work the category from the outside in. First list situations where the body meets a hostile force, since each one implies its own kit: construction, forestry, welding, electrical work, laboratories, farms, hospitals, kitchens, contact sport, riding, winter travel, rescue and combat. For every setting, ask what is worn and why, and keep the phrasing concrete rather than generic. Compound descriptions earn more than single words because they pin down the hazard and the wearer at once. Then push into rarer corners: historical and ceremonial defence, religious and folk charms meant to ward off harm, medical and disability aids, water and altitude equipment, and gear tied to a single trade or sport. Finally, run through the alphabet to shake loose entries you skipped, and prefer the most specific label you can defend.
Get a hint
Start with the settings rather than the objects: building sites, kitchens, labs, farms, hospitals, workshops, racetracks, ranges and cold water all demand something extra.
A little more
Then narrow by the harm being blocked — impact, puncture, laceration, burn, electric shock, dust, infection, drowning, or a fall from height — and ask what is worn for it.
One step further
Finally get precise: compound names do well, joining a material, a hazard or a trade to the garment, and historical or ceremonial body defences are fair game.
Reveal answers 1,336
Chainmail shark suitOne in a Krillion100points
Abdominal binderDeep Cut85points
Abracadabra amuletDeep Cut85points
Abrasion-resistant glovesDeep Cut85points
Abrasive blasting suitDeep Cut85points
Aero helmetDeep Cut85points
AetitesDeep Cut85points
Agnus DeiDeep Cut85points
AiletteDeep Cut85points
Airbag helmetDeep Cut85points
Airbag vestDeep Cut85points
Albert helmetDeep Cut85points
Why these answers count
The distribution is unusually flat: 1,075 of the 1,336 recorded answers sit at 85 points, so once a guess clearly matched the brief it landed in the same band almost regardless of how exotic it was. Aluminized hood, anti-vibration gloves and arc-rated face shield are all 85s, and so are far stranger entries such as Aetites or Agnus Dei; the game rewarded fit, not fame. The single 100, Chainmail shark suit, stands out because it stacks two rare specifics — a material and a scenario — into one unmistakable phrase. The 235 answers at 60 mark the other end: picks that were probably broader or more predictable, the kind of thing many players would reach for first, so the reveal treated them as ordinary rather than distinctive. The practical lesson is that precision pays more than plausibility. A tight compound that names the material, the hazard or the trade reads as a rarer, better-aimed answer, while a short generic label lands in the crowded middle.
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