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.

Dated record7 questions · 57,307 recorded answers

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
  • ShayDeep Cut85points
  • ShaydeDeep Cut85points
  • Shee VaneerDeep Cut85points
  • Shee VenathDeep Cut85points
  • SheekoDeep Cut85points
  • Sheem DagozeDeep Cut85points
  • SheerowDeep Cut85points
  • Sheh RataDeep Cut85points
  • SheilaDeep Cut85points
  • ShelbyDeep Cut85points
  • Shell BladeDeep Cut85points
  • Shell CarrierDeep Cut85points
  • Shell JellyDeep Cut85points
  • Shell PatchDeep Cut85points
  • Shell SpinnerDeep Cut85points
  • ShellcrackerDeep Cut85points
  • ShellcreeperDeep Cut85points
  • ShellmicDeep Cut85points
  • ShellshockDeep Cut85points
  • ShelltopDeep Cut85points
  • ShellyDeep Cut85points
  • SheltDeep Cut85points
  • SherfinDeep Cut85points
  • SheriDeep Cut85points
  • ShermDeep Cut85points
  • SherryDeep Cut85points
  • ShiboDeep Cut85points
  • Shield GuardDeep Cut85points
  • Shield GuyDeep Cut85points
  • Shield HunterDeep Cut85points
  • Shield PawnDeep Cut85points
  • Shield Pawn Mk. IIDeep Cut85points
  • ShieldsterDeep Cut85points
  • ShieragutchiDeep Cut85points
  • ShikakeDeep Cut85points
  • Shining GhostDeep Cut85points
  • ShinobiDeep Cut85points
  • Shiny Bob-ombDeep Cut85points
  • Shiny Buzzy BeetleDeep Cut85points
  • Shiny GoombaDeep Cut85points
  • Shiny Koopa TroopaDeep Cut85points
  • Shiny ParagoombaDeep Cut85points
  • Shiny ParatroopaDeep Cut85points
  • Shiny RoboBowserDeep Cut85points
  • Shiny-Cone GoombaDeep Cut85points
  • Shira GomarDeep Cut85points
  • ShiroDeep Cut85points
  • ShisaiDeep Cut85points
  • Shisaku-Gata DumpDeep Cut85points
  • Shisaku-Gata JetDeep 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