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
  • Sensory adaptationDeep Cut85points
  • Sensory feedbackDeep Cut85points
  • Sensory gatingDeep Cut85points
  • Sensory memoryDeep Cut85points
  • Sensory processingDeep Cut85points
  • Sensory transductionDeep Cut85points
  • Sequence learningDeep Cut85points
  • SeroconversionDeep Cut85points
  • Serotonergic transmissionDeep Cut85points
  • Serotonin secretionDeep Cut85points
  • SerotonylationDeep Cut85points
  • Sex determinationDeep Cut85points
  • Sex flushDeep Cut85points
  • Sexual differentiationDeep Cut85points
  • Sexual response cycleDeep Cut85points
  • Sexually induced sneezingDeep Cut85points
  • Sharp waves and ripplesDeep Cut85points
  • Shear stress responseDeep Cut85points
  • Short-term synaptic depressionDeep Cut85points
  • Shunting inhibitionDeep Cut85points
  • SialylationDeep Cut85points
  • Sickness behaviorDeep Cut85points
  • Signal transductionDeep Cut85points
  • Single-strand break repairDeep Cut85points
  • Sister chromatid cohesionDeep Cut85points
  • Sister chromatid exchangeDeep Cut85points
  • Site-specific recombinationDeep Cut85points
  • Size perceptionDeep Cut85points
  • Skeletal muscle pumpDeep Cut85points
  • SkeletonizationDeep Cut85points
  • Skin absorptionDeep Cut85points
  • Skin agingDeep Cut85points
  • Skin barrier functionDeep Cut85points
  • Skin cell renewalDeep Cut85points
  • Skin developmentDeep Cut85points
  • Skin immunityDeep Cut85points
  • Skin sheddingDeep Cut85points
  • Sleep homeostasisDeep Cut85points
  • Sleep paralysisDeep Cut85points
  • Sleep regulationDeep Cut85points
  • Sleep spindlesDeep Cut85points
  • Sleep talkingDeep Cut85points
  • SleepwalkingDeep Cut85points
  • Sliding filament mechanismDeep Cut85points
  • Slow pain perceptionDeep Cut85points
  • Smell adaptationDeep Cut85points
  • Smooth muscle contractionDeep Cut85points
  • SnatiationDeep Cut85points
  • SniffingDeep Cut85points
  • SnifflingDeep 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