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
  • Spider MechaDeep Cut85points
  • Spider MobileDeep Cut85points
  • Spider queenDeep Cut85points
  • SpideraticusDeep Cut85points
  • SpiderooDeep Cut85points
  • SpikeDeep Cut85points
  • Spike BassDeep Cut85points
  • Spike BlopDeep Cut85points
  • Spike BotDeep Cut85points
  • Spike CannonDeep Cut85points
  • Spike EelDeep Cut85points
  • Spike GuyDeep Cut85points
  • Spike KoopaDeep Cut85points
  • Spike SnifitDeep Cut85points
  • Spike the PiranhaDeep Cut85points
  • Spike TopDeep Cut85points
  • Spike Zok TrooperDeep Cut85points
  • SpikebonkerDeep Cut85points
  • Spiked BeetleDeep Cut85points
  • Spiked Fun GuyDeep Cut85points
  • Spiked GoombaDeep Cut85points
  • Spiked KoopaDeep Cut85points
  • Spiked RollerDeep Cut85points
  • Spiked ThwompDeep Cut85points
  • SpikeheadDeep Cut85points
  • SpikelyDeep Cut85points
  • SpikerDeep Cut85points
  • SpikesterDeep Cut85points
  • SpiketowerDeep Cut85points
  • SpikeyDeep Cut85points
  • SpikyDeep Cut85points
  • Spiky GegDeep Cut85points
  • Spiky GloombaDeep Cut85points
  • Spiky GoombaDeep Cut85points
  • Spiky GummitDeep Cut85points
  • Spiky JoeDeep Cut85points
  • Spiky ParabuzzyDeep Cut85points
  • Spiky SkellobaitDeep Cut85points
  • Spiky SkellobitDeep Cut85points
  • Spiky SnifitDeep Cut85points
  • Spiky Tom and Spiky JohnDeep Cut85points
  • Spiky TopmanDeep Cut85points
  • Spiky TrompDeep Cut85points
  • SpinbatDeep Cut85points
  • SpinchDeep Cut85points
  • SpinconeDeep Cut85points
  • SpindelDeep Cut85points
  • SpindleburrDeep Cut85points
  • SpindriftDeep Cut85points
  • SpineconeDeep 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