Name a character from Mario, Zelda, Donkey Kong, Sonic, or Kirby

November 11, 2026 · Daily Dive #119

Explore 9,874 recorded answers and their points for question 7 on November 11, 2026.

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9,874 recorded names on November 11, 2026, 9,294 at 85 or higher. The highest recorded score on this question is 100.

Cast a wide net inside the five series named in the prompt: heroes, villains, bosses, mid-bosses, enemy variants, shopkeepers, mounts and one-scene NPCs all draw from the same pool. Any identified character, creature or named enemy type from those five series counts, however obscure; game titles, locations, power-ups, vehicles and characters belonging only to other franchises do not.

9,874 recorded answers9,294 at 85+ points100 highest recorded points
  • One in a Krillion1100 pts
  • Deep Cut9,29385 pts
  • Rare52760 pts
  • Schooler4230 pts
  • Plankton1110 pts
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Recorded answers

9,874 recorded answers

How to approach it

Work the five rosters in passes rather than chasing one favourite. A first pass gives playable heroes and headline villains for free. A second covers bosses, mid-bosses and enemy types, especially those whose names carry a qualifier word. A third goes after NPCs who appear in one scene, shop staff, mounts and figures documented mainly in manuals, regional localisations or spin-off side modes. Stop at the first name you can source, not the first you half-remember. Test it three ways: it must be an individual entity rather than a title, place, item or move; it must originate in one of the five series rather than arrive through a crossover; and you must be able to spell it as the games do. A defensible obscure entry beats a famous one you cannot place.

Get a hint

Scale matters here: the pool runs to thousands of named entities, so the real task is not recall but navigation, deciding which layer of the roster you are searching before you start naming.

A little more

Move past the cover art. The middle layers, meaning boss rooms, mid-bosses, qualified enemy variants and staff who run a single shop, hold far more names than the playable cast, and most of them are individually named.

One step further

Go one step further into material that only exists in manuals, regional localisations, spin-off boards or one-line cameos, and pick a name you could point to a source for; that is the stratum where the very top of this list sits.

Reveal answers 9,874
  • PlummDeep Cut85points
  • PlungeloDeep Cut85points
  • PlungerDeep Cut85points
  • PlurpDeep Cut85points
  • PockyDeep Cut85points
  • PodlerDeep Cut85points
  • PodleyDeep Cut85points
  • Podoboo TowerDeep Cut85points
  • Poe CollectorDeep Cut85points
  • Pogo GuyDeep Cut85points
  • PogobotDeep Cut85points
  • Poh-BeeDeep Cut85points
  • PoinkDeep Cut85points
  • PointdexterDeep Cut85points
  • PointeyDeep Cut85points
  • Poison BlooperDeep Cut85points
  • Poison BubbleDeep Cut85points
  • Poison CherbilDeep Cut85points
  • Poison CroakomDeep Cut85points
  • Poison MashDeep Cut85points
  • Poison MiteDeep Cut85points
  • Poison Piranha PlantDeep Cut85points
  • Poison PokeyDeep Cut85points
  • Poison PuffDeep Cut85points
  • Pokey MummyDeep Cut85points
  • Pokey PomDeep Cut85points
  • PokeynutDeep Cut85points
  • PokeyplantDeep Cut85points
  • PokioDeep Cut85points
  • PokipedeDeep Cut85points
  • PokkiDeep Cut85points
  • PolariDeep Cut85points
  • PolesDeep Cut85points
  • Pollo the RhinoDeep Cut85points
  • Polly RogerDeep Cut85points
  • PolofDeep Cut85points
  • PoltergeistDeep Cut85points
  • PolterguyDeep Cut85points
  • PolterkittyDeep Cut85points
  • PolterpiranhaDeep Cut85points
  • PolterpupDeep Cut85points
  • PompeyDeep Cut85points
  • PompieDeep Cut85points
  • Pompon FlowerDeep Cut85points
  • PompyDeep Cut85points
  • PonDeep Cut85points
  • Pon Jr. & Con Jr.Deep Cut85points
  • PondoDeep Cut85points
  • PonnickDeep Cut85points
  • PonthosDeep Cut85points

Why these answers count

Nearly everything that made the reveal scored well: 9821 of the 9874 recorded entries cleared sixty points, and the examples show the 85 band swallowing almost the entire field, with 13-Amp, 18-Volt, 5-Volt, Ace, Acro and Ado sitting there alongside hundreds of comparably deep cuts. Scoring of that shape is not a fame contest; it reads as a reach test, asking whether you left the obvious cast at all. Only one entry, Stanley, reached 100, which suggests the list reserved its top mark for a single deepest-cut pick rather than a whole tier of them. The 527 entries at 60 form the one visibly lower band, and their size points to the safe answers: legitimate picks so standard that they prove recall and nothing more. Everything above that collapses into a flat 85, so once you have gone past the front rank, going further buys no extra credit.

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