Culture trivia
Name a type of shop
Everyone has a first answer to “Name a type of shop”. The game is about the second, the third and the tenth: 170 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.
- Supermarket
- Bakery
- Butcher
- Clothes shop
- Bookshop
The next answers people reach for
A step further down, worth 25 points each:
- Greengrocer
- Pharmacy
- Newsagent
- Florist
- Shoe shop
- Toy shop
- Hardware store
- Jeweller
- Corner shop
- Fishmonger
- Pet shop
- Charity shop
- Barber
- Hairdresser
- Off-licence
- Sweet shop
- Electronics shop
- Furniture shop
- Garden centre
- Gift shop
- Department store
- Coffee shop
- Chip shop
- Deli
- Music shop
- Record shop
- Sports shop
- Optician
- Phone shop
- Pound shop
- Video game shop
- Antique shop
- Pawn shop
How deep does “Name a type of shop” go?
- The Tip5 answers · 10 ptsSupermarket · Bakery · Butcher
- Below the Surface33 answers · 25 ptsGreengrocer · Pharmacy · Newsagent …
- The Deep79 answers · 50 ptsHidden until you play
- The Abyss52 answers · 85 ptsHidden until you play
- Below the Iceberg1 answer · 100 ptsOne legendary answer, waiting in the game
The Deep holds 79 answers starting with A, B, C, D, F, G, H, I, J, K, L, M, N, O, P, S, T, V and W. The Abyss has 52 more, and one legendary answer waits below them all.
Inside the answer list
- 170 answers in total, 137 of them longer than one word.
- Shortest: “Deli”. Longest: “Gentlemen's outfitter”.
- C, P and B are the most common first letters; together they start 38% of the answers.
- 110 answers can be typed more than one way: “Frame shop” counts as Picture framer.
Getting below the surface
- Start with C: 29 of the answers begin with it.
- Supermarket, Bakery and Butcher 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 shop”?
- The usual first answers are Supermarket, Bakery, Butcher, Clothes shop and Bookshop. In Icillion they are worth 10 points each, the least of any level.
- How many answers are there to “Name a type of shop”?
- 170 in all: 5 on The Tip, 33 Below the Surface, 79 in The Deep, 52 in The Abyss, and a single legendary answer Below the Iceberg.
- Which answers to “Name a type of shop” are the shortest and the longest?
- The shortest accepted answer is “Deli” and the longest is “Gentlemen's outfitter”.
- How hard is “Name a type of shop”?
- Easy. Nearly everyone can name something here, so prompts like this one can appear in the daily iceberg.
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