Food trivia
Name a coffee brand
Everyone has a first answer to “Name a coffee brand”. The game is about the second, the third and the tenth: 143 answers are accepted, ranked by how rarely people think of them.
The obvious answers
Right, but shallow: 10 answers nearly everyone thinks of, worth 10 points each.
- Nescafé
- Folgers
- Maxwell House
- Lavazza
- Starbucks
- Nespresso
- Kenco
- Illy
- Dunkin'
- Douwe Egberts
The next answers people reach for
Second thoughts land here, at 25 points:
- Tassimo
- Keurig
- Gold Blend
- Carte Noire
- Taylors of Harrogate
- Jacobs
- Tchibo
- Café Bustelo
- Peet's
- Caribou
- Seattle's Best
- Green Mountain Coffee
- Eight O'Clock Coffee
- Chock full o'Nuts
- Yuban
- Hills Bros
- Community Coffee
- Death Wish Coffee
- Black Rifle Coffee
- Café du Monde
- Melitta
- Segafredo
- Kimbo
- Senseo
- Dolce Gusto
- Gevalia
- Bewley's
- Java Republic
- Lyons
- Percol
- Cafédirect
- Kicking Horse
- Blue Bottle
- Stumptown
- Intelligentsia
- La Colombe
- Julius Meinl
- Dallmayr
- Paulig
- Löfbergs
- Merrild
- Juan Valdez
- UCC
- Boss Coffee
- Georgia Coffee
- Maxim
- Kopiko
- Trung Nguyên
- Moccona
- Robert Timms
- Costa
- Taster's Choice
- Medaglia d'Oro
- Café La Llave
- Pilon
- Sanka
How deep does “Name a coffee brand” go?
- The Tip10 answers · 10 ptsNescafé · Folgers · Maxwell House
- Below the Surface56 answers · 25 ptsTassimo · Keurig · Gold Blend …
- The Deep27 answers · 50 ptsHidden until you play
- The Abyss49 answers · 85 ptsHidden until you play
- Below the Iceberg1 answer · 100 ptsOne legendary answer, waiting in the game
The Deep holds 27 answers starting with A, C, H, I, M, O, P, R, S, T, U, V, W and Z. The Abyss has 49 more, and one legendary answer waits below them all.
By the numbers
- 143 answers in total, 63 of them longer than one word.
- Shortest: “G7”. Longest: “Ritual Coffee Roasters”.
- C, M and P are the most common first letters; together they start 29% of the answers.
- 19 answers can be typed more than one way: “Nescafé Gold Blend” counts as Gold Blend.
Tips for a rarer answer
- Start with C: 21 of the answers begin with it.
- Nescafé, Folgers and Maxwell House are safe but shallow. Aim past them.
- Spices, grains and fermented foods hide a lot of rare answers.
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Questions about this prompt
- What do most people say for “Name a coffee brand”?
- The usual first answers are Nescafé, Folgers, Maxwell House, Lavazza and Starbucks. In Icillion they are worth 10 points each, the least of any level.
- How many answers are there to “Name a coffee brand”?
- 143 in all: 10 on The Tip, 56 Below the Surface, 27 in The Deep, 49 in The Abyss, and a single legendary answer Below the Iceberg.
- Which answers to “Name a coffee brand” are the shortest and the longest?
- The shortest accepted answer is “G7” and the longest is “Ritual Coffee Roasters”.
- How hard is “Name a coffee brand”?
- Medium. It takes some general knowledge. It comes up in Free play on Medium and Mixed.
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