Culture trivia
Name a type of tower
Everyone has a first answer to “Name a type of tower”. The game is about the second, the third and the tenth: 75 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.
- Clock tower
- Bell tower
- Church tower
- Water tower
- Radio tower
- TV tower
- Watchtower
The next answers people reach for
These 38 are known, but not the first thing people say. 25 points each:
- Lighthouse
- Castle tower
- Keep
- Turret
- Spire
- Steeple
- Minaret
- Pagoda
- Campanile
- Belfry
- Skyscraper
- Tower block
- Cooling tower
- Control tower
- Air traffic control tower
- Observation tower
- Lookout tower
- Fire tower
- Siege tower
- Leaning tower
- Eiffel Tower
- Blackpool Tower
- Tower of London
- Tower Bridge
- Tower of Pisa
- Tower of Babel
- Ivory tower
- Dark Tower
- Rapunzel's tower
- Orthanc
- Barad-dûr
- Minas Tirith
- Minas Morgul
- Cirith Ungol
- Elven tower
- Wizard's tower
- Tower of Terror
- Tower Hamlets
How deep does “Name a type of tower” go?
- The Tip7 answers · 10 ptsClock tower · Bell tower · Church tower
- Below the Surface38 answers · 25 ptsLighthouse · Castle tower · Keep …
- The Deep19 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 19 answers starting with A, B, D, G, I, P, R and T. The Abyss has 10 more, and one legendary answer waits below them all.
Inside the answer list
- 75 answers in total, 56 of them longer than one word.
- Shortest: “Keep”. Longest: “Air traffic control tower”.
- T, B and C are the most common first letters; together they start 52% of the answers.
- 3 answers can be typed more than one way: “Barad-dur” counts as Barad-dûr.
Getting below the surface
- Start with T: 23 of the answers begin with it.
- Clock tower, Bell tower and Church tower 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 tower”?
- The usual first answers are Clock tower, Bell tower, Church tower, Water tower and Radio tower. In Icillion they are worth 10 points each, the least of any level.
- How many answers are there to “Name a type of tower”?
- 75 in all: 7 on The Tip, 38 Below the Surface, 19 in The Deep, 10 in The Abyss, and a single legendary answer Below the Iceberg.
- Which answers to “Name a type of tower” are the shortest and the longest?
- The shortest accepted answer is “Keep” and the longest is “Air traffic control tower”.
- How hard is “Name a type of tower”?
- 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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