Name a bodily function or biological process (like breathing)

November 11, 2026 · Daily Dive #119

Explore 1,926 recorded answers and their points for question 2 on November 11, 2026.

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1,926 recorded names on November 11, 2026, 1,708 at 85 or higher. The highest recorded score on this question is 100.

Work down the body from skin inward and from chemistry outward, because the scoring grid rewards processes registered in anatomy, physiology and biochemistry alike. Count any named function or process a living body performs, including cellular and molecular ones, but not organs, diseases, single chemicals or techniques carried out in a laboratory.

1,926 recorded answers1,708 at 85+ points100 highest recorded points
  • One in a Krillion1100 pts
  • Deep Cut1,70785 pts
  • Rare17360 pts
  • Schooler3830 pts
  • Plankton710 pts
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Recorded answers

1,926 recorded answers

How to approach it

Begin by sketching a rough map of everything a living body does, from gross functions visible to an observer down to events inside a single cell, and keep the map open rather than committing to a shortlist. Then test each candidate against the wording: if it names a thing rather than an activity, set it aside. Convert whatever survives into the most precise technical term you know, because the scoring rewards specificity and penalises vague umbrella words that thousands of other players will also submit. Fill gaps in the map systematically — one pass for mechanical actions, one for chemical conversions, one for control and signalling events — and submit the most obscure accurate term you can defend, since common everyday phrasing saturates quickly.

Get a hint

Start at the scale of whole systems and keep descending: the accepted list treats events at the level of organs, tissues, cells and molecules as equally valid entries.

A little more

Ask what a body does rather than what it has; verbs and nominalised actions are accepted, while structures, conditions and measurements are not, so phrase every candidate as something that happens.

One step further

Rarer, more technical entries have paid the most, so push past the obvious everyday actions into named events from physiology and biochemistry textbooks, where most players never look.

Reveal answers 1,926
  • Glycosaminoglycan degradationDeep Cut85points
  • Glycosphingolipid biosynthesisDeep Cut85points
  • GlycosylationDeep Cut85points
  • Glyoxylate and dicarboxylate metabolismDeep Cut85points
  • Going paleDeep Cut85points
  • Golgi tendon reflexDeep Cut85points
  • Golgi vesicle transportDeep Cut85points
  • Gonadal developmentDeep Cut85points
  • GonadarcheDeep Cut85points
  • Gonadotropin secretionDeep Cut85points
  • GPI-anchor biosynthesisDeep Cut85points
  • Graft rejectionDeep Cut85points
  • Granulation tissue formationDeep Cut85points
  • Granuloma formationDeep Cut85points
  • GranulopoiesisDeep Cut85points
  • GraphesthesiaDeep Cut85points
  • Gravity sensingDeep Cut85points
  • Growth hormone secretionDeep Cut85points
  • Growth plate closureDeep Cut85points
  • H-ReflexDeep Cut85points
  • HabituationDeep Cut85points
  • Hair follicle developmentDeep Cut85points
  • Hair pigmentationDeep Cut85points
  • Haldane effectDeep Cut85points
  • Hanger reflexDeep Cut85points
  • Haptic perceptionDeep Cut85points
  • HaptotaxisDeep Cut85points
  • Haustral churningDeep Cut85points
  • hCG secretionDeep Cut85points
  • Head righting reflexDeep Cut85points
  • Heart developmentDeep Cut85points
  • Heart rate slowingDeep Cut85points
  • Heart valve closureDeep Cut85points
  • Heat sensationDeep Cut85points
  • Heat shock responseDeep Cut85points
  • Hedgehog signalingDeep Cut85points
  • HematopoiesisDeep Cut85points
  • Heme synthesisDeep Cut85points
  • Hemoglobin breakdownDeep Cut85points
  • Hemoglobin synthesisDeep Cut85points
  • HemolysisDeep Cut85points
  • HemostasisDeep Cut85points
  • Hepatic circulationDeep Cut85points
  • Hepatic glucose productionDeep Cut85points
  • Hepatobiliary eliminationDeep Cut85points
  • Hepcidin secretionDeep Cut85points
  • Hering-Breuer reflexDeep Cut85points
  • Heterologous immunityDeep Cut85points
  • Heterosynaptic plasticityDeep Cut85points
  • Hexosamine pathwayDeep Cut85points

Why these answers count

Points here track how crowded a slot is, not how impressive the term sounds. The reveal held 1926 recorded answers, yet only 1881 cleared the sixty-point threshold, and the distribution is lopsided: a single answer took 100, 1707 sat at 85 and just 173 landed at 60. That shape tells you the middle band was enormous — a long tail of technical vocabulary that almost nobody else thought of — while the bottom of the scale was reserved for a small set of phrases so obvious that they were effectively shared property. Nasal cycle, at 100, was the lone standout, and entries such as 5' capping, Abdominal reflex and Acrosome reaction sit at 85: precise, textbook-register events that read as specialised even to players who recognise them. Everyday wording pulled the 60-point crowd. The practical lesson is that specificity, not familiarity, is what separates a good answer from a scoring one.

Recorded from the game’s published reveal · Source · Checked 11 Nov, 05:00 UTC

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