Culture trivia
Name a type of box
Everyone has a first answer to “Name a type of box”. The game is about the second, the third and the tenth: 84 answers are accepted, ranked by how rarely people think of them.
The obvious answers
These are the answers most people give first. They count, but they barely move you: 10 points each.
- Cardboard box
- Shoebox
- Gift box
- Toolbox
- Lunchbox
- Matchbox
- Jewellery box
The next answers people reach for
These 45 are known, but not the first thing people say. 25 points each:
- Pencil box
- Pizza box
- Cereal box
- Tissue box
- Post box
- Letterbox
- Mailbox
- Phone box
- Police box
- Call box
- Fuse box
- Black box
- Sandbox
- Toy box
- Treasure chest
- Music box
- Jack-in-the-box
- Snuff box
- Tinderbox
- Pill box
- Hatbox
- Bandbox
- Wine box
- Beer crate
- Crate
- Chest
- Trunk
- Coffin
- Casket
- Skip
- Dumpster
- Container
- Shipping container
- Safe
- Safety deposit box
- Strongbox
- Lockbox
- Cash box
- Money box
- Piggy bank
- Collection box
- Ballot box
- Suggestion box
- Ice box
- Cool box
How deep does “Name a type of box” go?
- The Tip7 answers · 10 ptsCardboard box · Shoebox · Gift box
- Below the Surface45 answers · 25 ptsPencil box · Pizza box · Cereal box …
- The Deep21 answers · 50 ptsHidden until you play
- The Abyss10 answers · 85 ptsHidden until you play
- Below the Iceberg1 answer · 100 ptsOne legendary answer, waiting in the game
The Deep holds 21 answers starting with B and S. The Abyss has 10 more, and one legendary answer waits below them all.
Inside the answer list
- 84 answers in total, 57 of them longer than one word.
- Shortest: “Safe”. Longest: “Shipping container”.
- B, S and C are the most common first letters; together they start 58% of the answers.
- 4 answers can be typed more than one way: “Telephone box” counts as Phone box.
Getting below the surface
- Start with B: 24 of the answers begin with it.
- Cardboard box, Shoebox and Gift box are safe but shallow. Aim past them.
- Think of a country, then its currency, its instrument and its dance.
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Quick answers
- What do most people say for “Name a type of box”?
- The usual first answers are Cardboard box, Shoebox, Gift box, Toolbox and Lunchbox. In Icillion they are worth 10 points each, the least of any level.
- How many answers are there to “Name a type of box”?
- 84 in all: 7 on The Tip, 45 Below the Surface, 21 in The Deep, 10 in The Abyss, and a single legendary answer Below the Iceberg.
- Which answers to “Name a type of box” are the shortest and the longest?
- The shortest accepted answer is “Safe” and the longest is “Shipping container”.
- How hard is “Name a type of box”?
- Easy. Nearly everyone can name something here, so prompts like this one can appear in the daily iceberg.
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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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