What do most people say for “Name a mineral”?

The usual first answers are Quartz, Diamond and Calcite. In Icillion they are worth 10 points each, the least of any level.

How many answers are there to “Name a mineral”?

36 in all: 3 on The Tip, 6 Below the Surface, 8 in The Deep, 18 in The Abyss, and a single legendary answer Below the Iceberg.

Which answers to “Name a mineral” are the shortest and the longest?

The shortest accepted answer is “Mica” and the longest is “Rhodochrosite”.

Chemistry trivia

Name a mineral

Everyone has a first answer to “Name a mineral”. The game is about the second, the third and the tenth: 36 answers are accepted, ranked by how rarely people think of them.

The obvious answers

Right, but shallow: 3 answers nearly everyone thinks of, worth 10 points each.

Quartz
Diamond
Calcite

The next answers people reach for

Second thoughts land here, at 25 points:

Feldspar
Mica
Gypsum
Talc
Halite
Pyrite

How deep does “Name a mineral” go?

Level	Accepted answers	Points
The Tip	3	10
Below the Surface	6	25
The Deep	8	50
The Abyss	18	85
Below the Iceberg	1	100

The Deep holds 8 answers starting with A, C, F, G, H, M, O and T. The Abyss has 18 more, and one legendary answer waits below them all.

Facts about this list

36 answers in total, every one of them a single word.
Shortest: “Mica”. Longest: “Rhodochrosite”.
C, S and A are the most common first letters; together they start 39% of the answers.

How to go deeper

Start with C: 6 of the answers begin with it.
Quartz, Diamond and Calcite are safe but shallow. Aim past them.
Use the periodic table: groups and rows you rarely think about are full of rare answers.

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