Food trivia
Name a type of lettuce
Can you get past the obvious ones? Icillion accepts 66 answers to “Name a type of lettuce”, and only 7 of them float on the tip of the iceberg.
What everyone says first
These are the answers most people give first. They count, but they barely move you: 10 points each.
- Iceberg
- Romaine
- Little Gem
- Butterhead
- Lollo Rosso
- Rocket
- Watercress
Just below the surface
A step further down, worth 25 points each:
- Round lettuce
- Frisée
- Endive
- Radicchio
- Chicory
- Batavia
- Webb's Wonder
- Tom Thumb
- Lamb's lettuce
- Mâche
- Red oak leaf
- Green oak leaf
- Lollo Biondo
- Salad bowl
- Mizuna
- Baby gem
- Boston lettuce
- Bibb lettuce
- Bibb
- Butter lettuce
- Looseleaf
- Leaf lettuce
- Red leaf
- Green leaf
- Spinach
- Pea shoots
How the answers sink
- The Tip7 answers · 10 ptsIceberg · Romaine · Little Gem
- Below the Surface26 answers · 25 ptsRound lettuce · Frisée · Endive …
- The Deep22 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 22 answers starting with A, B, C, D, F, G, M, P, R, S and W. The Abyss has 10 more, and one legendary answer waits below them all.
By the numbers
- 66 answers in total, 42 of them longer than one word.
- Shortest: “Bibb”. Longest: “Merveille des quatre saisons”.
- R, B and L are the most common first letters; together they start 41% of the answers.
- 4 answers can be typed more than one way: “Cos” counts as Romaine.
Getting below the surface
- More answers begin with R than with any other letter (10). Run through it first.
- Skip Iceberg, Romaine and Little Gem; everybody says them.
- Name what people cook at home in that country, not what restaurants abroad serve.
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Quick answers
- What are the most common answers to “Name a type of lettuce”?
- Most people start with Iceberg, Romaine, Little Gem, Butterhead and Lollo Rosso. In Icillion they are worth 10 points each, the least of any level.
- How many answers does Icillion accept for “Name a type of lettuce”?
- 66 in all: 7 on The Tip, 26 Below the Surface, 22 in The Deep, 10 in The Abyss, and a single legendary answer Below the Iceberg.
- What is the shortest answer to “Name a type of lettuce”?
- The shortest accepted answer is “Bibb” and the longest is “Merveille des quatre saisons”.
- Is “Name a type of lettuce” 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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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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