Culture trivia
Name a type of puzzle
Can you get past the obvious ones? Icillion accepts 78 answers to “Name a type of puzzle”, and only 7 of them float on the tip of the iceberg.
What everyone says first
Say one of these and you stay near the surface, with 10 points.
- Jigsaw
- Crossword
- Sudoku
- Rubik's Cube
- Maze
- Word search
- Riddle
Just below the surface
Second thoughts land here, at 25 points:
- Anagram
- Cryptic crossword
- Quick crossword
- Codeword
- Kakuro
- Killer sudoku
- Nonogram
- Picross
- Hanjie
- Logic puzzle
- Logic grid
- Brainteaser
- Lateral thinking puzzle
- Rebus
- Acrostic
- Cryptogram
- Cipher
- Code
- Escape room
- Treasure hunt
- Scavenger hunt
- Tower of Hanoi
- Sliding puzzle
- 15 puzzle
- Burr puzzle
- Wooden puzzle
- Cube puzzle
- Soma cube
- Pentominoes
- Tetris
- Minesweeper
- Solitaire
- Peg solitaire
- Mastermind
- Chess problem
- Mate in two
- Spot the difference
- Join the dots
- Dot-to-dot
- Colour by numbers
How the answers sink
- The Tip7 answers · 10 ptsJigsaw · Crossword · Sudoku
- Below the Surface40 answers · 25 ptsAnagram · Cryptic crossword · Quick crossword …
- The Deep20 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 20 answers starting with A, B, C, F, H, K, L, M, N, S, T and Y. The Abyss has 10 more, and one legendary answer waits below them all.
Facts about this list
- 78 answers in total, 28 of them longer than one word.
- Shortest: “Code”. Longest: “Lateral thinking puzzle”.
- C, S and T are the most common first letters; together they start 37% of the answers.
Tips for a rarer answer
- More answers begin with C than with any other letter (12). Run through it first.
- Skip Jigsaw, Crossword and Sudoku; everybody says them.
- Think of a country, then its currency, its instrument and its dance.
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Questions about this prompt
- What are the most common answers to “Name a type of puzzle”?
- Most people start with Jigsaw, Crossword, Sudoku, Rubik's Cube and Maze. In Icillion they are worth 10 points each, the least of any level.
- How many answers does Icillion accept for “Name a type of puzzle”?
- 78 in all: 7 on The Tip, 40 Below the Surface, 20 in The Deep, 10 in The Abyss, and a single legendary answer Below the Iceberg.
- What is the shortest answer to “Name a type of puzzle”?
- The shortest accepted answer is “Code” and the longest is “Lateral thinking puzzle”.
- Is “Name a type of puzzle” an easy or a hard prompt?
- Easy. Nearly everyone can name something here, so prompts like this one can appear in the daily iceberg.
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