Name a recurring household bill

November 8, 2026 · Daily Dive #116

Explore 338 recorded answers and their points for question 1 on November 8, 2026.

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338 recorded names on November 8, 2026, 196 at 85 or higher. The highest recorded score on this question is 100.

Think about the money that leaves a household on a repeating schedule rather than in one-off bursts, and picture the different providers and contracts that generate it. Count only charges that recur on a fixed cycle for the home or the people in it; one-off purchases, repairs, and debts cleared in a single payment do not qualify.

338 recorded answers196 at 85+ points100 highest recorded points
  • One in a Krillion1100 pts
  • Deep Cut19585 pts
  • Rare11260 pts
  • Schooler2330 pts
  • Plankton710 pts
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Recorded answers

338 recorded answers

How to approach it

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.

A little more

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.

One step further

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
  • Audiobook subscriptionRare60points
  • BabysitterRare60points
  • Bank feesRare60points
  • Boat insuranceRare60points
  • Boat loanRare60points
  • Buy now pay laterRare60points
  • Car registrationRare60points
  • Car warrantyRare60points
  • Car wash membershipRare60points
  • Child supportRare60points
  • CleanerRare60points
  • Cloud storage subscriptionRare60points
  • Club duesRare60points
  • Condo feesRare60points
  • Condo insuranceRare60points
  • Contents insuranceRare60points
  • Council taxRare60points
  • Dating app subscriptionRare60points
  • Dental billsRare60points
  • Dental insuranceRare60points
  • Disability insuranceRare60points
  • Dog licenceRare60points
  • Dog walkerRare60points
  • Domestic workerRare60points
  • E-book subscriptionRare60points
  • Earthquake insuranceRare60points
  • Elder careRare60points
  • Flood insuranceRare60points
  • FuelRare60points
  • Funeral insuranceRare60points
  • Funeral planRare60points
  • Gaming subscriptionRare60points
  • Gap insuranceRare60points
  • Garden waste collectionRare60points
  • GardenerRare60points
  • HeatingRare60points
  • Heating oilRare60points
  • HOA feesRare60points
  • Home warrantyRare60points
  • Income taxRare60points
  • Kids' sports feesRare60points
  • LandlineRare60points
  • Landlord insuranceRare60points
  • Lawn careRare60points
  • Live TV streamingRare60points
  • Loan paymentRare60points
  • Long-term care insuranceRare60points
  • Magazine subscriptionRare60points
  • Meal kit subscriptionRare60points
  • Medicare AdvantageRare60points

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.

Recorded from the game’s published reveal · Source · Checked 8 Nov, 05:00 UTC

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