November 13, 2026, Dive #121, stores 60,604 names. The longest list is “Name a video game you can play on PS5, Xbox Series X, Nintendo Switch 1 or Nintendo Switch 2.” (29,154 recorded) and the shortest is “Name a country that has been colonized by Spain or Portugal.” (60). 57,273 score 85 or higher.
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60,604 recorded names57,273 at 85 or higher7 questions with an 85+ name
Name a video game you can play on PS5, Xbox Series X, Nintendo Switch 1 or Nintendo Switch 2.
29,154 recorded answers
How to approach it
Obscurity is where the points live, so step away from bestseller charts and walk toward the margins of the catalogue. Think of small downloadable experiments, regional editions, compilations of ancient arcade ports, interactive fiction, puzzle trinkets and licensed tie-ins that faded without ever building a following. A candidate only helps if you can confirm it truly appeared on one of the four platforms, since a title that never reached them earns nothing however strange it sounds. With a shortlist ready, favour the oddest names and the smallest audiences, then check that your pick exists as a standalone release rather than a demo, a piece of downloadable content or a mode tucked within a larger product, and submit the strangest one you can verify.
Get a hint
The pool is enormous: blockbuster spectacles, free downloads, remastered classics and cartridges that never crossed their home region all fit in one basket.
A little more
Then rank your candidates by obscurity, because a release that only a few players recognise pays far better than a household name with millions of owners.
One step further
Head for the far end of a digital shop listing: odd punctuation, untranslated imports, tiny puzzlers, dusty arcade bundles and micro-releases priced like a coffee.
Reveal answers 29,154
Zero WingOne in a Krillion100points
-Making*Lovers- First BlushDeep Cut85points
.cat 2Deep Cut85points
.cat MilkDeep Cut85points
.Cat Nincat DinogotchiDeep Cut85points
.catMilk 2Deep Cut85points
.dogDeep Cut85points
.hack//G.U. Last RecodeDeep Cut85points
.hack//G.U. vol. 1//RebirthDeep Cut85points
.hack//G.U. vol. 2//ReminisceDeep Cut85points
.hack//G.U. vol. 3//RedemptionDeep Cut85points
.hack//G.U. vol. 4//ReconnectionDeep Cut85points
Why these answers count
The board is lopsided, and its shape reveals how the scoring rewards obscurity. Of the 29,154 recorded answers, 29,100 reached sixty points, yet 28,209 of those sat at exactly 85, so clearing the threshold matters far more than polishing the choice. The real danger is a pick so familiar that it drops into the 890-answer group at 60, or one that never shows up in the reveal. The lone 100-point entry, Zero Wing, shows what the summit demands: an eccentric title that exactly one solver produced, still playable on a current machine and strange enough that nobody else thought of it. Around 85 the same instinct holds, with .hack//G.U. Last Recode, #IDARB and .cat Milk sitting in that band. Set against the household names that earn only 60, the lesson is plain: fame costs points, and the reward goes to the title that makes a reader doubt it was ever sold at retail.
Name a country that has been colonized by Spain or Portugal.
60 recorded answers
How to approach it
Work the map systematically instead of free-associating. Take one region at a time — North and West Africa, the Gulf and the Indian Ocean rim, South and Southeast Asia, the Pacific, the Caribbean and the Americas — and for each, run through the sovereign states you can name, asking whether any Iberian power ever held territory, a fort, a trading post or a claim there. Coastal forts, brief occupations and disputed island claims all count, so do not filter them out as minor. Then rank your candidates by how obscure the link feels: obvious choices are shared by thousands of players and pay little, while a surprising but defensible pick is what the scoring rewards. Check that your pick is a sovereign state, then submit the least obvious name you can justify.
Get a hint
Start with the whole map rather than one continent: the two Iberian crowns left marks in Africa, Asia, the Americas and the Pacific, so any region is a legitimate hunting ground.
A little more
Next, widen past the obvious former colonies everyone learns about and include places where the connection was short, indirect or administrative rather than a full settlement project.
One step further
For the highest-value picks, hunt for sovereign states whose Iberian episode was brief, contested or limited to a claim rather than lasting rule; the harder the link is to recall, the rarer the answer.
Reveal answers 60
CanadaOne in a Krillion100points
AlgeriaDeep Cut85points
BahrainDeep Cut85points
BeninDeep Cut85points
GhanaDeep Cut85points
IndonesiaDeep Cut85points
IranDeep Cut85points
KenyaDeep Cut85points
LibyaDeep Cut85points
MalaysiaDeep Cut85points
MaldivesDeep Cut85points
MauritaniaDeep Cut85points
Why these answers count
Points here measure how few other players gave the same answer, not how historically important the colony was. Canada at 100 points is the clearest illustration: an Iberian foothold there is so counterintuitive that whoever named it stood alone at the top. Just below, the 85-point band rewards solid but unglamorous knowledge — Algeria and Bahrain, for instance, both scored 85 because the connection is real yet almost never the first example anyone reaches for. The crowded 60-point tier is where the famous cases live: Angola, Haiti or the United States are correct, easy to justify and therefore shared by many players, which is precisely what flattens their value. In practice that means a defensible choice that most people would not think of beats a textbook one every time. Aim off the beaten track, verify the pick is a sovereign state, and do not talk yourself out of a surprising answer just because it feels unlikely.
Name a chemical element that makes up the human body.
66 recorded answers
How to approach it
Work from the chart of elements outward instead of trying to recall a biology lesson. First fix the rule: the question wants a single named element, so anything that is a compound, a mineral or a molecule is out. Then let your mind run through the chart in blocks, pausing on entries you can plausibly connect to living tissue, whether they are bulk components or contaminants picked up from water, air and diet. Abundance is not the criterion, presence is, so a candidate that appears only in traces deserves the same consideration as an obvious one. Once you have three or four candidates, pick the least predictable of them, because rarity of the guess, not biological importance, is what the scoring rewards.
Get a hint
Start from the chart of elements rather than from biology: the body draws on a limited set of entries there, and a single one is enough to answer.
A little more
Rank candidates by how much of them the body holds; a few entries carry most of the mass, while many others turn up only in minute traces, and both ends of that spread are valid.
One step further
Before settling on the most obvious structural ingredient, scan the obscure corners of the chart, since the unusual picks are the ones that earn the biggest scores.
Reveal answers 66
RubidiumOne in a Krillion100points
AntimonyDeep Cut85points
ArgonDeep Cut85points
BariumDeep Cut85points
BerylliumDeep Cut85points
BismuthDeep Cut85points
BoronDeep Cut85points
BromineDeep Cut85points
CadmiumDeep Cut85points
CeriumDeep Cut85points
CesiumDeep Cut85points
GalliumDeep Cut85points
Why these answers count
Scoring here tracks surprise rather than scientific weight. The single answer that reached the top of the scale was Rubidium at 100 points, an element most people would never list as a body component, yet it does occur in tissue in small amounts. Beneath it sits a long bench of entries at 85 points, the likes of Antimony, Tungsten, Tellurium and Samarium, all of them recognisably exotic to a general audience and therefore worth more. At 60 points the reveal groups the familiar names: Aluminum, Copper, Zinc, Sulfur, Silicon and Phosphorus, the staples of school syllabuses and nutrition labels. Those are correct answers and they count, but they were the ones a crowd reaches for first, so the scoring treats them as the safe floor. Nothing in the reveal suggests the low-scoring picks are wrong; the spread simply reflects how many people would have thought of them. If you want maximum value, the lesson is to reach past the textbook list and offer something a room full of strangers would not.
Name an invention that existed before 1500 (no food or drinks).
6,313 recorded answers
How to approach it
Reverse the usual move: instead of hunting for one item, generate a wide field of candidates quickly, then test each against the date. Choose a broad arena of old practical life — the household, the building site, the workshop, the battlefield, the sickroom — and jot down five or six concrete things from each, written with the precise term a specialist would use rather than the everyday word. Scrutiny comes next: does a written source place the thing before 1500, and is it an object, a technique or a system rather than a plant, a dish or a drink? Width first, judgement afterwards. Since the reveal rewards volume, keep extending the shortlist and note spelling variants of every entry, because a narrow technical label is often the form the list accepts.
Get a hint
Begin with the working capital of ordinary life in antiquity: the tools, containers, fastenings and structures people handled daily rather than the ceremonial pieces kept for the powerful.
A little more
Narrow next to problems that demanded a designed solution — keeping accounts, lifting water, marking the hour, landing a blow in combat, closing a wound — and ask whether a documented remedy predates 1500.
One step further
Finally, favour the specialist's label over the household word: a single implement, one named building element or a particular notation usually sits in reference works under a term nobody says aloud today.
Reveal answers 6,313
Pythagorean cupOne in a Krillion100points
360-degree circleDeep Cut85points
60-minute hourDeep Cut85points
819-day countDeep Cut85points
Ab anbarDeep Cut85points
Ab urbe conditaDeep Cut85points
Abacus (architecture)Deep Cut85points
AbaptistaDeep Cut85points
Abat-sonDeep Cut85points
AbatisDeep Cut85points
AbayaDeep Cut85points
AbecedaryDeep Cut85points
Why these answers count
The scoring here is unusually flat: a single recorded pick took the full hundred, while more than five thousand earned eighty-five and seven hundred more stopped at sixty. That shape points to a closed list graded by rarity rather than by correctness — nearly everything submitted was accepted and then levelled. The lone maximum went to Pythagorean cup, an ingenious contrivance few players would reach for. The eighty-five band is vast and reads like a catalogue of specialist vocabulary: Ab anbar, Abat-son, Abatis, Abjad numerals, Acinaces, Acoustic jar, Acta Diurna. Each is a real thing from before 1500, yet each sits inside a niche — water supply, architecture, fortification, notation, armament — so finding one depends on knowing that corner of the field, not on luck. The sixty-point tier, seven hundred strong, probably collects the more familiar choices that many players hit at once. The practical lesson: obvious picks keep you in the middle of the pack, and the extra points come from the technical term.
The reliable route is to work film by film rather than trying to recall faces at random. Pick the franchise's largest casts first, list every credited performer you can, then move to the next title and repeat; a spreadsheet or a notes file keeps the duplicates down. Once the obvious leads dry up, change the angle: think about specialized performers, actors buried under make-up, voice-only parts, and people who appear in a single scene. Cross-check anything you are unsure of against a detailed credits database, because uncredited background work is the usual trap. Working in short timed bursts and switching categories when you stall tends to beat one long stare at a blank page.
Get a hint
Begin with the entries that carry the largest casts, where credit lists run into the hundreds and even named characters exist only for a scene or two.
A little more
Then widen to the smaller and stranger titles: sequels with swollen rosters, team-up entries, and stories that spend time in flashbacks or alternate timelines.
One step further
Finish by mining the edges of the credits: specialists who also appear on camera, performers playing several parts under prosthetics, and famous faces saved for the moments after the final scene.
Reveal answers 2,245
Miley CyrusOne in a Krillion100points
A. JonesDeep Cut85points
Aakash ShukalDeep Cut85points
Aamaya OyedeleDeep Cut85points
Aaron BergDeep Cut85points
Aaron HayesDeep Cut85points
Aaron HimelsteinDeep Cut85points
Aaron MistryDeep Cut85points
Aaron SaxtonDeep Cut85points
Aaron SchwartzDeep Cut85points
Aaron StanfordDeep Cut85points
Aaron ToneyDeep Cut85points
Why these answers count
The scoring here is unusually flat, and that is the interesting part. Of the 2,245 recorded names, 2,210 cleared the top band, and all but one of those sat at 85 points, a range stretching from household faces to stunt players most viewers would never recognise. The single exception, Miley Cyrus, took 100 because her appearance reads as a surprise rather than a career landmark, so comparatively few players thought of her. A separate band of 188 names landed at 60, usually the mark of a pick that thousands of players converge on at once. The practical lesson is that a specific, verifiable deep cut earns as much as a marquee lead and occasionally more: Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje or Alan Dale pays exactly what a franchise headliner pays. Breadth, not caution, is what moves a score here, so keep writing names until the clock runs out.
Start from the printed side, not from a favourite film. Sweep broad shelves: literary novels, genre fiction, young-adult titles, memoirs, reportage, biographies and published plays all feed the film industry, so almost any well-known book is a candidate. Then test the link: was there a feature film, not merely a series, a stage revival or a documentary short? With a candidate in hand, prefer the one you can name precisely, exact title as printed, articles and subtitles included, because the reveal rewards recognisable but not ubiquitous entries. If two books come to mind, take the less obvious one; blockbusters cluster at the bottom of the scale while mid-list and translated titles sit higher.
Get a hint
Follow the most travelled pipeline first: novels that became feature films, including genre fiction, prize winners and titles that sold heavily long before anyone filmed them.
A little more
Widen beyond fiction: memoirs, biographies, accounts of real cases, essay collections and published plays have reached cinemas too, and the film often drifts far from the printed page.
One step further
Picture titles whose screen version overshadows the book, and works written in one tongue and filmed in a different one; the link only needs to be documented, not famous.
Reveal answers 20,704
The Hound of FlorenceOne in a Krillion100points
- for dagene er ondeDeep Cut85points
¡Sublime decisión!Deep Cut85points
¿Dónde vas Alfonso XII?Deep Cut85points
...a bude hůřDeep Cut85points
'night, MotherDeep Cut85points
'Op o' Me ThumbDeep Cut85points
'Tis Pity She's a WhoreDeep Cut85points
“I’m Fine” SpiritDeep Cut85points
"Master Harold"...and the BoysDeep Cut85points
"Oh…"Deep Cut85points
“Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman!”Deep Cut85points
Why these answers count
Points here track almost entirely how many players landed on the same title. Household blockbusters were named so often that they settled at the floor of the scale, whereas the 85-point band is crowded with books that are real but rarely the first thing anyone thinks of: 1408, 1922, 3:10 to Yuma, 2 Guns, 101 Reykjavík, 4.50 from Paddington and 84, Charing Cross Road all sit there. The single 100-point entry, The Hound of Florence, marks the ceiling, an obscure source behind a famous film earning maximum rarity. That band also draws on titles from many countries and several idioms, which suggests translated and non-Anglophone books are the most dependable way out of the crowd. The 60-point tier holds 936 answers: recognisable titles that a fair number of players still reached. The practical rule is that the more canonical and widely printed the book, the lower the score, while the more precise, translated or half-forgotten the source, the higher it climbs.
A useful way in is to walk the product mentally rather than brainstorm famous moments. Picture the interface one screen at a time: the tab holding your own posts, the capture view, the editor, the messaging area, the settings tree, the advertising side and the creator side. At every stop, note whatever carries its own name — a toggle, a menu, a label, a badge, a tool, a family of effects. Keep each answer short and exact, as if copied from a help-centre page, because a precise name travels further than an explanation of what the thing does. Then push past the obvious handful into the long tail of minor additions, seasonal items and business-facing options, which is where the only maximum score came from.
Get a hint
Begin with what sits in plain sight: the icons that frame a video, the tabs along the bottom edge and the buttons on your own page are each a separate named capability.
A little more
Move inward to the menus nobody demos: privacy switches, account management, verification steps, safety tools and feed settings are listed there in long, tidy columns.
One step further
Finish with the small print — temporary overlays, seasonal effects, in-feed notices and tools reserved for creators — since narrow, exactly worded names are what the highest band pays for.
Reveal answers 2,062
TikTok ResumesOne in a Krillion100points
10/10Deep Cut85points
1930s AI FilterDeep Cut85points
1st AnniversaryDeep Cut85points
2025 GlassesDeep Cut85points
2025 JoyLensDeep Cut85points
2025 LoveDeep Cut85points
2nd AnniversaryDeep Cut85points
3rd AnniversaryDeep Cut85points
A Bubbly TimeDeep Cut85points
A Fun HouseDeep Cut85points
A Garden YonderDeep Cut85points
Why these answers count
Nearly everything that scored well landed in one enormous band: 1,914 of the 2,062 recorded answers took 85 points. The grader was evidently happy with almost any genuine, recognisable capability the app ships, whether a headline creative tool such as AI Song, something as administrative as About this account, Accessibility, or a playful effect like A-ha Filter. That width carries the lesson — precision of naming counted for far more than fame of choice. A single answer climbed to 100, TikTok Resumes, a niche product few players would think to mention, so the extra credit for rarity was tiny and confined to one slot. Meanwhile 126 answers sat at 60, and those read like the loose end of the scale: broad descriptions, half-features, items only loosely tied to the app. So an obscure but verifiable name is the safest route into the top band, and the length of the accepted list shows how forgiving it was.
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