What do most people say for “Name a fairy tale”?

The usual first answers are Cinderella, Snow White, Little Red Riding Hood, Hansel and Gretel and Sleeping Beauty. In Icillion they are worth 10 points each, the least of any level.

How many answers are there to “Name a fairy tale”?

99 in all: 5 on The Tip, 17 Below the Surface, 38 in The Deep, 38 in The Abyss, and a single legendary answer Below the Iceberg.

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

The shortest accepted answer is “Sadko” and the longest is “Youth Without Age and Life Without Death”.

How hard is “Name a fairy tale”?

Easy. Nearly everyone can name something here, so prompts like this one can appear in the daily iceberg.

Culture trivia

Name a fairy tale

Everyone has a first answer to “Name a fairy tale”. The game is about the second, the third and the tenth: 99 answers are accepted, ranked by how rarely people think of them.

The obvious answers

Say one of these and you stay near the surface, with 10 points.

Cinderella
Snow White
Little Red Riding Hood
Hansel and Gretel
Sleeping Beauty

The next answers people reach for

A step further down, worth 25 points each:

Rapunzel
Jack and the Beanstalk
Goldilocks and the Three Bears
The Little Mermaid
Beauty and the Beast
The Three Little Pigs
Rumpelstiltskin
The Ugly Duckling
Pinocchio
The Frog Prince
Puss in Boots
The Princess and the Pea
The Gingerbread Man
Thumbelina
The Snow Queen
Aladdin
Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves

How deep does “Name a fairy tale” go?

Level	Accepted answers	Points
The Tip	5	10
Below the Surface	17	25
The Deep	38	50
The Abyss	38	85
Below the Iceberg	1	100

The Deep holds 38 answers starting with B, D, E, H, I, K, M, S, T, U and V. The Abyss has 38 more, and one legendary answer waits below them all.

Inside the answer list

99 answers in total, 82 of them longer than one word.
Shortest: “Sadko”. Longest: “Youth Without Age and Life Without Death”.
T, S and M are the most common first letters; together they start 60% of the answers.
14 answers can be typed more than one way: “Bremen Town Musicians” counts as Town Musicians of Bremen.

Getting below the surface

Start with T: 48 of the answers begin with it.
Cinderella, Snow White and Little Red Riding Hood are safe but shallow. Aim past them.
Myths go far beyond Zeus and Thor: minor gods and creatures score well.

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Quick answers

What do most people say for “Name a fairy tale”?: The usual first answers are Cinderella, Snow White, Little Red Riding Hood, Hansel and Gretel and Sleeping Beauty. In Icillion they are worth 10 points each, the least of any level.
How many answers are there to “Name a fairy tale”?: 99 in all: 5 on The Tip, 17 Below the Surface, 38 in The Deep, 38 in The Abyss, and a single legendary answer Below the Iceberg.
Which answers to “Name a fairy tale” are the shortest and the longest?: The shortest accepted answer is “Sadko” and the longest is “Youth Without Age and Life Without Death”.
How hard is “Name a fairy tale”?: Easy. Nearly everyone can name something here, so prompts like this one can appear in the daily iceberg.

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