How to play
How to play Icillion
Seven prompts, twenty seconds each, one answer per prompt. The rarer your answer, the deeper your submarine dives.
The rules
- Every day there is a new iceberg of 7 prompts, such as “Name a fruit”. Everyone gets the same ones, and a new iceberg starts at midnight UTC.
- Type one answer that fits. You have 20 seconds. A wrong guess costs 2 seconds, so keep trying.
- Every accepted answer has a level. Common answers give a small descent; rare answers take you much further.
- Each prompt has one legendary answer worth 100 points. Seven legendary answers take you all the way to the sea floor.
The five levels
| Level | What it means | Points |
|---|---|---|
| The Tip | Everyone says this one. It floats right on top. | 10 |
| Below the Surface | A solid answer, just under the waterline. | 25 |
| The Deep | Not many people get down here. | 50 |
| The Abyss | Very few people know this one. | 85 |
| Below the Iceberg | A legendary answer. The maximum descent for this prompt. | 100 |
The dive
Your score becomes depth. The best possible round, 700 points, takes the submarine down 10,935 metres to Challenger Deep. On the way you pass these zones:
- Sunlight zone from 0 m
- Twilight ice from 200 m
- Frozen archives from 1,000 m
- Ancient ice from 4,000 m
- The blue abyss from 6,000 m
- Below the iceberg from 8,800 m
- Challenger Deep from 10,900 m
Frozen fossils, a rubber duck, a woolly mammoth and stranger things are trapped in the ice along the way. Click them.
Ranks
| Rank | From | What it says about you |
|---|---|---|
| Tourist | 0 pts | You stayed up on the tip with everyone else. |
| Snorkeler | 84 pts | You dipped your head below the waterline. |
| Free diver | 168 pts | One breath, and you went further than most. |
| Scuba diver | 252 pts | You know your way around the cold water. |
| Deep diver | 336 pts | Your answers sink where few people look. |
| Submariner | 420 pts | Most players never see this part of the iceberg. |
| Abyss dweller | 504 pts | You live where the light does not reach. |
| Trench legend | 602 pts | Almost every answer went straight to the bottom. |
| Challenger Deep | 700 pts | A perfect dive, all the way to the deepest point on Earth. |
Accepted spellings
Capital letters, accents, plurals and small typos don’t matter. Common alternative names count, and words like “the” and “Mount” are optional.
Free play and the archive
Free play gives you unlimited rounds on every topic or on just one: see all topics. The archive lets you play any past daily iceberg. Neither changes your streak or stats.
How deep does your knowledge go?
Seven prompts a day, twenty seconds each. Obvious answers float on the tip of the iceberg; rare ones sink all the way to the trench.
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