Food trivia
Name a flavour of crisps or potato chips
Can you get past the obvious ones? Icillion accepts 140 answers to “Name a flavour of crisps or potato chips”, and only 5 of them float on the tip of the iceberg.
What everyone says first
Right, but shallow: 5 answers nearly everyone thinks of, worth 10 points each.
- Ready salted
- Salt and vinegar
- Cheese and onion
- Prawn cocktail
- Barbecue
Just below the surface
These 31 are known, but not the first thing people say. 25 points each:
- Sour cream and onion
- Smoky bacon
- Roast chicken
- Salt and pepper
- Sweet chilli
- Paprika
- Worcester sauce
- Roast beef
- Beef and onion
- Pickled onion
- Jalapeño
- Cheddar
- Ketchup
- Flamin' Hot
- Ranch
- Dill pickle
- Chilli and lime
- Lime
- Spicy
- Sour cream and chive
- Steak
- Honey barbecue
- Pizza
- Nacho cheese
- Tangy cheese
- Truffle
- Balsamic vinegar
- Caramelised onion
- Spring onion
- Chilli
- Marmite
How the answers sink
- The Tip5 answers · 10 ptsReady salted · Salt and vinegar · Cheese and onion
- Below the Surface31 answers · 25 ptsSour cream and onion · Smoky bacon · Roast chicken …
- The Deep50 answers · 50 ptsHidden until you play
- The Abyss53 answers · 85 ptsHidden until you play
- Below the Iceberg1 answer · 100 ptsOne legendary answer, waiting in the game
The Deep holds 50 answers starting with A, B, C, F, G, H, K, L, M, O, P, Q, S, T and W. The Abyss has 53 more, and one legendary answer waits below them all.
Facts about this list
- 140 answers in total, 88 of them longer than one word.
- Shortest: “Ham”. Longest: “Sweet chilli and sour cream”.
- C, S and P are the most common first letters; together they start 43% of the answers.
- 83 answers can be typed more than one way: “Plain” counts as Ready salted.
Tips for a rarer answer
- More answers begin with C than with any other letter (26). Run through it first.
- Skip Ready salted, Salt and vinegar and Cheese and onion; everybody says them.
- Spices, grains and fermented foods hide a lot of rare answers.
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Questions about this prompt
- What are the most common answers to “Name a flavour of crisps or potato chips”?
- Most people start with Ready salted, Salt and vinegar, Cheese and onion, Prawn cocktail and Barbecue. In Icillion they are worth 10 points each, the least of any level.
- How many answers does Icillion accept for “Name a flavour of crisps or potato chips”?
- 140 in all: 5 on The Tip, 31 Below the Surface, 50 in The Deep, 53 in The Abyss, and a single legendary answer Below the Iceberg.
- What is the shortest answer to “Name a flavour of crisps or potato chips”?
- The shortest accepted answer is “Ham” and the longest is “Sweet chilli and sour cream”.
- Is “Name a flavour of crisps or potato chips” an easy or a hard prompt?
- Easy. Nearly everyone can name something here, so prompts like this one can appear in the daily iceberg.
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