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
  • DemineralizationDeep Cut85points
  • Dendritic spikeDeep Cut85points
  • DentinogenesisDeep Cut85points
  • DephosphorylationDeep Cut85points
  • DepolarizationDeep Cut85points
  • Depolarization-induced suppression of inhibitionDeep Cut85points
  • DerepressionDeep Cut85points
  • DesensitizationDeep Cut85points
  • Determination of affectDeep Cut85points
  • Detrusor contractionDeep Cut85points
  • DetumescenceDeep Cut85points
  • DetyrosinationDeep Cut85points
  • Developmental gene expression regulationDeep Cut85points
  • Developmental plasticityDeep Cut85points
  • DHEA secretionDeep Cut85points
  • DiakinesisDeep Cut85points
  • DiapedesisDeep Cut85points
  • Diaphragm contractionDeep Cut85points
  • DiastoleDeep Cut85points
  • Dihydrotestosterone secretionDeep Cut85points
  • DimerizationDeep Cut85points
  • DiploteneDeep Cut85points
  • Discrimination learningDeep Cut85points
  • DishabituationDeep Cut85points
  • Disulfide bond formationDeep Cut85points
  • DisulfidptosisDeep Cut85points
  • DiuresisDeep Cut85points
  • Diurnal cortisol rhythmDeep Cut85points
  • Diving reflexDeep Cut85points
  • DNA damage responseDeep Cut85points
  • DNA demethylationDeep Cut85points
  • DNA end resectionDeep Cut85points
  • DNA fragmentationDeep Cut85points
  • DNA methylationDeep Cut85points
  • DNA re-replicationDeep Cut85points
  • DNA unwindingDeep Cut85points
  • Dopaminergic transmissionDeep Cut85points
  • DopaminylationDeep Cut85points
  • Double-strand break repairDeep Cut85points
  • Down-regulationDeep Cut85points
  • Ductus arteriosus closureDeep Cut85points
  • DurotaxisDeep Cut85points
  • Early induced immune responseDeep Cut85points
  • Ears poppingDeep Cut85points
  • Eccrine sweatingDeep Cut85points
  • Ectopic recombinationDeep Cut85points
  • EfferocytosisDeep Cut85points
  • Eicosanoid synthesisDeep Cut85points
  • Elastic recoilDeep Cut85points
  • Elastin productionDeep 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