What do most people say for “Name a way to cook or serve potatoes”?

The usual first answers are French fries, Mashed potato, Baked potato, Roast potato and Potato chips. In Icillion they are worth 10 points each, the least of any level.

How many answers are there to “Name a way to cook or serve potatoes”?

81 in all: 5 on The Tip, 17 Below the Surface, 31 in The Deep, 27 in The Abyss, and a single legendary answer Below the Iceberg.

Which answers to “Name a way to cook or serve potatoes” are the shortest and the longest?

The shortest accepted answer is “Boxty” and the longest is “Papa a la huancaina”.

How hard is “Name a way to cook or serve potatoes”?

Easy. Nearly everyone can name something here, so prompts like this one can appear in the daily iceberg.

Food trivia

Name a way to cook or serve potatoes

Everyone has a first answer to “Name a way to cook or serve potatoes”. The game is about the second, the third and the tenth: 81 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.

French fries
Mashed potato
Baked potato
Roast potato
Potato chips

The next answers people reach for

A step further down, worth 25 points each:

Hash browns
Potato salad
Boiled potato
Scalloped potato
Wedges
Gnocchi
Tater tots
Curly fries
Potato skins
Latkes
Home fries
Potato soup
Waffle fries
Croquettes
Fried potato
Steamed potato
Stuffed potato

How deep does “Name a way to cook or serve potatoes” go?

Level	Accepted answers	Points
The Tip	5	10
Below the Surface	17	25
The Deep	31	50
The Abyss	27	85
Below the Iceberg	1	100

The Deep holds 31 answers starting with A, B, C, D, F, H, L, P, R, S and T. The Abyss has 27 more, and one legendary answer waits below them all.

By the numbers

81 answers in total, 60 of them longer than one word.
Shortest: “Boxty”. Longest: “Papa a la huancaina”.
P, S and A are the most common first letters; together they start 47% of the answers.
20 answers can be typed more than one way: “Fries” counts as French fries.

Tips for a rarer answer

Start with P: 21 of the answers begin with it.
French fries, Mashed potato and Baked potato 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 way to cook or serve potatoes”?: The usual first answers are French fries, Mashed potato, Baked potato, Roast potato and Potato chips. In Icillion they are worth 10 points each, the least of any level.
How many answers are there to “Name a way to cook or serve potatoes”?: 81 in all: 5 on The Tip, 17 Below the Surface, 31 in The Deep, 27 in The Abyss, and a single legendary answer Below the Iceberg.
Which answers to “Name a way to cook or serve potatoes” are the shortest and the longest?: The shortest accepted answer is “Boxty” and the longest is “Papa a la huancaina”.
How hard is “Name a way to cook or serve potatoes”?: Easy. Nearly everyone can name something here, so prompts like this one can appear in the daily iceberg.

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