Culture trivia
Name a superpower
Everyone has a first answer to “Name a superpower”. The game is about the second, the third and the tenth: 152 answers are accepted, ranked by how rarely people think of them.
The obvious answers
Right, but shallow: 5 answers nearly everyone thinks of, worth 10 points each.
- Flight
- Invisibility
- Super strength
- Telepathy
- Teleportation
The next answers people reach for
Second thoughts land here, at 25 points:
- Super speed
- Time travel
- Shapeshifting
- Telekinesis
- Healing
- Regeneration
- Immortality
- X-ray vision
- Laser eyes
- Mind control
- Time control
- Weather control
- Fire
- Ice
- Water control
- Super hearing
- Night vision
- Precognition
- Invulnerability
- Elasticity
- Shrinking
- Growth
- Water breathing
- Talking to animals
- Wall crawling
- Electricity
- Phasing
- Force field
- Super intelligence
- Duplication
How deep does “Name a superpower” go?
- The Tip5 answers · 10 ptsFlight · Invisibility · Super strength
- Below the Surface30 answers · 25 ptsSuper speed · Time travel · Shapeshifting …
- The Deep65 answers · 50 ptsHidden until you play
- The Abyss51 answers · 85 ptsHidden until you play
- Below the Iceberg1 answer · 100 ptsOne legendary answer, waiting in the game
The Deep holds 65 answers starting with A, B, C, D, E, F, G, H, I, L, M, O, P, R, S, T, U, V and W. The Abyss has 51 more, and one legendary answer waits below them all.
By the numbers
- 152 answers in total, 102 of them longer than one word.
- Shortest: “Ice”. Longest: “Bringing drawings to life”.
- S, T and P are the most common first letters; together they start 36% of the answers.
- 139 answers can be typed more than one way: “Super leap” counts as Super jumping.
Tips for a rarer answer
- Start with S: 24 of the answers begin with it.
- Flight, Invisibility and Super strength are safe but shallow. Aim past them.
- Myths go far beyond Zeus and Thor: minor gods and creatures score well.
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Questions about this prompt
- What do most people say for “Name a superpower”?
- The usual first answers are Flight, Invisibility, Super strength, Telepathy and Teleportation. In Icillion they are worth 10 points each, the least of any level.
- How many answers are there to “Name a superpower”?
- 152 in all: 5 on The Tip, 30 Below the Surface, 65 in The Deep, 51 in The Abyss, and a single legendary answer Below the Iceberg.
- Which answers to “Name a superpower” are the shortest and the longest?
- The shortest accepted answer is “Ice” and the longest is “Bringing drawings to life”.
- How hard is “Name a superpower”?
- Easy. Nearly everyone can name something here, so prompts like this one can appear in the daily iceberg.
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