Culture trivia
Name a yoga pose
Everyone has a first answer to “Name a yoga pose”. The game is about the second, the third and the tenth: 70 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.
- Downward dog
- Child's pose
- Warrior pose
- Tree pose
- Cobra pose
- Cat-cow
- Lotus position
The next answers people reach for
A step further down, worth 25 points each:
- Mountain pose
- Sun salutation
- Triangle pose
- Bridge pose
- Camel pose
- Plank pose
- Crow pose
- Headstand
- Shoulder stand
- Plough pose
- Corpse pose
- Savasana
- Pigeon pose
- Cow face pose
- Boat pose
- Locust pose
- Bow pose
- Wheel pose
- Fish pose
- Eagle pose
- Chair pose
- Half moon pose
- Dancer pose
- Happy baby
- Sphinx pose
- Upward dog
- Seated forward bend
- Standing forward bend
- Cobbler's pose
- Garland pose
- Frog pose
- Firefly pose
- Peacock pose
- Crocodile pose
How deep does “Name a yoga pose” go?
- The Tip7 answers · 10 ptsDownward dog · Child's pose · Warrior pose
- Below the Surface34 answers · 25 ptsMountain pose · Sun salutation · Triangle pose …
- The Deep18 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 18 answers starting with A, B, E, H, K, P, S, T, U and V. The Abyss has 10 more, and one legendary answer waits below them all.
By the numbers
- 70 answers in total, 45 of them longer than one word.
- Shortest: “Cat-cow”. Longest: “Setu bandha sarvangasana”.
- S, C and B are the most common first letters; together they start 39% of the answers.
Tips for a rarer answer
- Start with S: 11 of the answers begin with it.
- Downward dog, Child's pose and Warrior pose are safe but shallow. Aim past them.
- Think of a country, then its currency, its instrument and its dance.
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Questions about this prompt
- What do most people say for “Name a yoga pose”?
- The usual first answers are Downward dog, Child's pose, Warrior pose, Tree pose and Cobra pose. In Icillion they are worth 10 points each, the least of any level.
- How many answers are there to “Name a yoga pose”?
- 70 in all: 7 on The Tip, 34 Below the Surface, 18 in The Deep, 10 in The Abyss, and a single legendary answer Below the Iceberg.
- Which answers to “Name a yoga pose” are the shortest and the longest?
- The shortest accepted answer is “Cat-cow” and the longest is “Setu bandha sarvangasana”.
- How hard is “Name a yoga pose”?
- Easy. Nearly everyone can name something here, so prompts like this one can appear in the daily iceberg.
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