November 8, 2026, Dive #116, stores 33,399 names. The longest list is “Name a place or landmark with Great or Grand in its name (like the Grand Canyon)” (22,494 recorded) and the shortest is “Name something you empty regularly at home” (279). 31,686 score 85 or higher.
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33,399 recorded names31,686 at 85 or higher7 questions with an 85+ name
Work from the most universal end of the scale outward. First list the payments almost every household faces at a predictable interval, the ones tied to simply occupying and servicing a dwelling, and note how many variants exist within each of those families. Then push into the less obvious layer: arrangements people sign up for to protect themselves against a specific risk, to gain access to a facility or service, or to maintain something they own. After that, look for charges attached to a particular kind of property, a particular tenancy arrangement, or a particular stage of family life. Rank what remains by how unusual it is, because obscurity is what separates a high score from a safe, ordinary guess, and check that each candidate truly repeats rather than occurring once.
Get a hint
Start with the fixed rhythm of running a home: what money must go out again and again, month after month, whether or not anything breaks or gets used up.
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Then widen past obvious service charges to contracts people hold for protection, access, upkeep, and care, including small niche arrangements that only some households carry.
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Finally think of the obscure end: specialised cover, memberships, rental schemes, and levies that appear on a single street or in one type of building, since the rare picks are where the points are.
Reveal answers 338
Nanny taxOne in a Krillion100points
Accident insuranceDeep Cut85points
Accidental damage coverDeep Cut85points
Accountant feesDeep Cut85points
Adult day careDeep Cut85points
Air filter subscriptionDeep Cut85points
Airport lounge or travel membershipDeep Cut85points
AlimonyDeep Cut85points
Allotment rentDeep Cut85points
Ambulance coverDeep Cut85points
Appliance insuranceDeep Cut85points
Appliance rentalDeep Cut85points
Why these answers count
The distribution tells the story plainly. A single answer reached the hundred-point tier, 'Nanny tax', which is the sort of narrow, jurisdiction-specific obligation almost nobody outside a particular employment arrangement would ever think of. Behind it sits a huge flat shelf at eighty-five points, and that shelf is where the real contest happens: hundreds of entries clustered there, from 'Chimney sweep' and 'Bin cleaning' to 'Coffee subscription' and 'Accident insurance'. What unites them is specificity. Each names a distinct contract, service, or levy rather than gesturing at a broad family of charges, and each is plausible enough to be recognised yet uncommon enough that most players never reach it. The 112 answers at sixty points are the ordinary, broadly shared obligations that occur to nearly everyone immediately. Rarer picks earn more because the scoring rewards the distance a player travels from the obvious, so the winning strategy is to keep going after the first three ideas.
Work the problem from mechanism outward rather than from memory. Anything that injects venom through a purpose-built structure belongs on the list: a puncturing tail, a modified egg-laying organ, a harpoon-like tooth, a fired cell, a barbed spine. Then sweep habitats systematically, through soil and leaf litter, nests and burrows, reefs and tide pools, open water and sandy bottoms, because the answer pool is far wider than the familiar garden offenders. Once you have a few safe generic ideas, push toward properly named species, since scoring favours precision. Keep a mental note of which branches you have already mined so you do not circle back, and write candidates in clusters: if one member of a group qualifies, its relatives probably do too.
Get a hint
Start with the body part that does the damage: a hollow spine, a barbed tail or a cell that fires on contact narrows the field far faster than habitat or diet ever will.
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Size tells you nothing here, because the same defensive trick turns up in colonial organisms fixed to the seabed and in winged foragers that visit flowers, so scan several distant branches of the tree of life.
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Long lists of this kind reward the obscure end of the catalogue: properly named species and regional forms beat the plain everyday word, so a half-forgotten binomial will usually outscore the first thing you thought of.
Reveal answers 6,671
Wallace's Giant BeeOne in a Krillion100points
Abbas ConeDeep Cut85points
Abbott's ConeDeep Cut85points
Abbreviated coneDeep Cut85points
Aberrant Cellophane BeeDeep Cut85points
Abert's thread-waisted waspDeep Cut85points
Abrolhos ConeDeep Cut85points
Abrupt Digger BeeDeep Cut85points
Abrupt Leather-CoralDeep Cut85points
Abundantly Punctured Sweat BeeDeep Cut85points
Acacia antDeep Cut85points
Acan coralDeep Cut85points
Why these answers count
The reveal is unusually flat. Of 6,671 recorded answers, 6,650 cleared sixty points, so the whole spread between a middling reply and the best one is twenty-five points, and only a single entry, Wallace's Giant Bee, reached the maximum of 100. That lone outlier says less about taxonomy than about duplication: the scoring pays for being the only person in the room to think of something, not for thinking of a different category. The enormous 85-point band, which includes Abbas Cone, Abbott's Cone, Acacia ant and Achilles' scorpion among thousands of others, is where careful, specific naming lands. Those are full species names, often obscure regional or taxonomic forms, and they beat the everyday word a casual player types first. The 243 answers stuck at 60 are presumably the shortest, most generic or most heavily repeated submissions that still satisfied the criterion. Correctness buys entry into the pack; precision lifts you clear of it; genuine rarity is worth one tier more.
Set a working threshold first: a typical adult chicken weighs roughly two kilos, so aim for birds whose adults clearly pass three or four. Then sweep the whole class in size bands rather than trusting whatever names surface: flightless ground runners, long-legged wading birds, bulky waterfowl, the largest hunting birds, heavy ground-dwelling game birds, and the outsized outliers hiding in otherwise modest families. Within each band, commit to a real species or a recognised domestic breed, because an exact name scores better than a loose family label. Finish by checking the mass against a reference figure and dropping anything that wins on wingspan or height alone. Working band by band and then alphabetically mirrors how the official reveal appears to be built and keeps you from stopping at the first plausible name.
Get a hint
Size is comparative, so start from the reference bird's adult weight and climb through the class's heaviest body plans: flightless runners, long-legged waders and bulky waterfowl.
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Then narrow by habitat rather than by memory: marshes, coasts, cold plateaus and tropical canopies each shelter species several times heavier than the reference.
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Finally, commit to one precise name — a full species, a recognised domestic breed or a well-defined regional form — and check adult mass, not wingspan or standing height.
Reveal answers 432
Rüppell's vultureOne in a Krillion100points
Abbott's BoobyDeep Cut85points
Abdim's StorkDeep Cut85points
Abyssinian Ground-hornbillDeep Cut85points
AdjutantDeep Cut85points
African DarterDeep Cut85points
African OpenbillDeep Cut85points
African Woolly-necked StorkDeep Cut85points
Alagoas CurassowDeep Cut85points
Altai SnowcockDeep Cut85points
American Buff gooseDeep Cut85points
Amsterdam AlbatrossDeep Cut85points
Why these answers count
The scoring splits cleanly into three tiers, and the pattern is precision. The single 100-point answer is a rare, sharply defined species that almost nobody else names, which is what the top of the curve rewards. The 290 answers on 85 points are overwhelmingly exact species or formal breed names — Abbott's Booby, Abdim's Stork, Alagoas Curassow, Amsterdam Albatross — each specific enough to be unambiguous and unusual enough to stay scarce. The 117 answers on 60 points are the ones a crowd reaches for first: familiar family words or common species that many players submit at once, so the rarity bonus shrinks. Nothing here rewards being merely correct; a hen-sized bird list is easy to fill, so the reveal is really a test of how deep into the taxonomic catalogue you can go while keeping the name exact. Add a qualifier, a place-derived epithet or a breed designation, and the pick usually moves up a tier.
Name a place or landmark with Great or Grand in its name (like the Grand Canyon)
22,494 recorded answers
How to approach it
Treat the prompt as a data-recall exercise rather than a quiz on famous sights, because the scoring pool is drawn from mapping and gazetteer records. Build a mental checklist of categories first: natural features, civic and religious buildings, transport stops, hotels and resorts, streets and numbered addresses, rural hamlets and farm tracks. Then work through that checklist in the languages you can spell confidently, since translated and cognate forms of the two keywords open up whole countries at a stroke. Prefer entries you can describe precisely enough to be checked on a map, and drop anything you only half-remember. Breadth of category matters more than prestige here, so keep listing until you run out of confident candidates rather than stopping at the first famous name.
Get a hint
Start with the scale of the list rather than its fame: the accepted names run from world-famous sights down to numbered shopfronts, so almost any genre of place is fair game.
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Move to languages and geography: the two words appear in translated and cognate forms across many countries, so scan village registers, parish names and rural tracks as well as city centres.
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Then narrow by naming convention: numbered street addresses, motels, mosques and railway or metro stops supply the bulk of the deep cuts, and a plain official designation beats a poetic one.
Reveal answers 22,494
Great Pyramid of CholulaOne in a Krillion100points
Scoring here behaves unlike a normal rarity ladder. Of the 22,494 recorded answers, 22,198 sit at 85 points, a vast flat middle band, while only 273 drop to 60 and a single entry reaches 100. That shape tells you where the value is. The 60-point tier is the famous, heavily repeated set that most players reach for first, so it is precisely what to skip. The 85 band is everything else: minor streets, small resorts and modest religious buildings, all effectively tied because almost nobody names any single one. 801 Grand and 1100 Grand Concourse and 451 E. Grand earn the same 85 as a numbered terrace in a country you have never visited. The lone 100-point answer is an outlier rather than a target; chasing it is a lottery, while stepping one pace past the obvious converts 60 into 85 every time.
Name any item in Minecraft (older versions count too)
2,404 recorded answers
How to approach it
Treat this as a memory sweep across the whole product history rather than a search for one clever pick. Begin with the categories a player handles constantly and list a handful from each, because breadth is what the scoring rewards. Then work outward into the places most people never open: creative-only tabs, retired entries from old changelogs, teaching-mode extras, and the technical leftovers that ship inside the game files without ever reaching a normal session. Write down candidates as they come and keep going well past the point where you feel satisfied, since the answer pool is unusually deep and the middle of it is crowded. Only after that should you prune duplicates and pick the phrasing that feels most precise.
Get a hint
Start with the shape of the inventory as a whole: the tabs a player scrolls through when nothing is locked, and the sheer number of near-duplicate entries stacked inside each one.
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Then push past the obvious: material variants of the same shape, colour variants of the same piece, container types, and entries that exist only because a version was retired or a teaching mode was shipped.
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Finally, think about the strangest corners of the data: placeholder entries, debug leftovers, promotional one-offs and names that read like typos rather than game content, since those are what most solvers forget.
Reveal answers 2,404
Petrified Oak SlabOne in a Krillion100points
3DDeep Cut85points
A Very Fine ItemDeep Cut85points
Abandoned Camp MapDeep Cut85points
Acacia BoatDeep Cut85points
Acacia Boat with ChestDeep Cut85points
Acacia ButtonDeep Cut85points
Acacia DoorDeep Cut85points
Acacia FenceDeep Cut85points
Acacia Fence GateDeep Cut85points
Acacia Hanging SignDeep Cut85points
Acacia LeavesDeep Cut85points
Why these answers count
The distribution is lopsided and tells you almost everything. Only one entry reached 100 points, the removed Petrified Oak Slab, a block that survives only in old worlds and old memories. Everything else specific enough to be checked landed in the same enormous 85-point tier: 1,841 entries, stretching from ordinary furniture variants such as Acacia Button and Acacia Fence Gate to education-mode chemistry like Actinium and Americium, and on to oddities like Ankle Monitor and 3D. That flatness is the lesson. The grader rewarded identification, not obscurity, for almost the entire catalogue, so a strange pick did not outperform a plain one. A further 460 entries settled at 60 points, a band the published sample does not illustrate, which suggests those were the broadest or most duplicated guesses. Rarity paid exactly once, at the very top, and it paid only fifteen points more than the crowd.
Treat the prompt as a tour of the home rather than a word-association test. Walk through each room in your head and ask one question at every stop: what does this thing collect, and who clears it out? Kitchens, bathrooms, laundry corners, garages, balconies and pet areas all hold devices with a hidden collection chamber. Then stretch the idea of home to include digital space, because folders and inboxes fill and get cleared too. With a rough list in hand, sort by how often the clearing genuinely happens; anything annual or one-off drops away. Finally, prefer the specific over the generic: a named fixture with an obvious emptying ritual beats a broad category every time. Aim for a dozen candidates before you commit to one.
Get a hint
Begin with the chores that come back on a schedule: cleaning, maintenance, pet care, personal care and digital housekeeping all depend on a container that has to be cleared before it works again.
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Walk room by room and ask what each device or fixture is collecting, whether water, dust, debris, condensation or stale data. Every collection point implies somebody has to empty it sooner or later.
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Get concrete about mechanism and rhythm: look for objects with a lid, a filter, a chamber or a chute that you clear weekly or monthly. The more specific and domestic the object sounds, the stronger it usually scores.
Reveal answers 279
SpittoonOne in a Krillion100points
AC drip panDeep Cut85points
Air compressor tankDeep Cut85points
Aquarium filterDeep Cut85points
Ash bucketDeep Cut85points
Ash panDeep Cut85points
Ash pit cleanoutDeep Cut85points
Baby bathDeep Cut85points
Bath bucketDeep Cut85points
Bath toysDeep Cut85points
Battery recycling boxDeep Cut85points
Bed bug interceptorDeep Cut85points
Why these answers count
The points cluster into three very different bands. The great majority of recognized answers sit at 85, and they share a profile: specific household hardware with an obvious emptying ritual, such as a dishwasher filter, a contact lens case, a coffee grinder or a bird bath. These are things people genuinely maintain but rarely mention out loud, so they feel earned without being obvious. A single entry reaches 100, spittoon, which wins purely on surprise: antique, memorable and almost never offered, so whoever says it collects the whole prize. Below that lies the 60 band, where broader and more predictable choices gather and every player crowds onto the same few ideas. The lesson is that rarity, not effort, moves the score. A named component with a visible job reads as legitimate; a vague category reads as a guess. So when two candidates are equally true, choose the one a guest would ask you to explain, because that is usually the one fewer people thought of.
Work along routes rather than lists, with a clock running. Start in the physical world: streets, vehicles, buildings, printed handouts and everyday objects. Then switch to electronic settings and separate the format of a message from the platform hosting it. After that, examine the commercial arrangement behind the message, because paid association with events, borrowed audiences and staged moments each produce their own named routes. Finally mine trade vocabulary, where media kits, rate cards and agency catalogues supply precise labels. Write every candidate before judging, then drop whatever is merely a product, a company name or a bare price cut. Group what survives by setting and check whether the label describes how a message travels rather than where you saw it. Aim for volume first; prune afterwards.
Get a hint
Begin with the built environment and the objects inside it: surfaces people walk past, vehicles in motion, printed matter handed over, and items carried home all host commercial messages.
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Move next to electronic settings, splitting the shape of the message from the platform that carries it, since apps, video services, games and retail sites each generate their own named placements.
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Finish with indirect routes, where payment buys association rather than space: sponsored events, borrowed audiences, tie-ins with other people's content and staged moments built only to be reported.
Reveal answers 781
Forehead advertisingOne in a Krillion100points
3D pavement art adDeep Cut85points
ABEMA adsDeep Cut85points
Addressable TV advertisingDeep Cut85points
Ads on cowsDeep Cut85points
AdvergameDeep Cut85points
Advertiser-funded programmingDeep Cut85points
Advertising columnDeep Cut85points
Advertising comicDeep Cut85points
Advertising filmDeep Cut85points
Advertising stampDeep Cut85points
Aerial audioDeep Cut85points
Why these answers count
Scoring here looks oddly compressed at the summit: one entry reaches 100 points while hundreds sit at 85, and a further 174 stop at 60, which suggests the prize goes to precision more than sheer obscurity. The perfect score belongs to the most physical end of the spectrum, a placement so intimate that it sounds like a joke until you confirm the practice is real. The large 85-point block is where most successful players landed, mixing obscure formats such as Advertising stamp, Beer mat and Advertising comic with retail networks and placements sold inside apps. Each of those is instantly recognisable to someone working in the trade, yet almost never the first thing a casual player types. The 60-point band covers accurate but predictable thinking, the channel nearly everyone writes down early. Points therefore track distance from the obvious: a broad medium earns modestly, while a narrow, properly named variant that still qualifies earns far more. Naming the specific mechanism beats naming the general field.
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