Food trivia
Name a type of salt
Can you get past the obvious ones? Icillion accepts 68 answers to “Name a type of salt”, and only 7 of them float on the tip of the iceberg.
What everyone says first
Right, but shallow: 7 answers nearly everyone thinks of, worth 10 points each.
- Table salt
- Sea salt
- Rock salt
- Himalayan salt
- Kosher salt
- Maldon
- Flaky salt
Just below the surface
These 28 are known, but not the first thing people say. 25 points each:
- Fleur de sel
- Sel gris
- Celtic salt
- Smoked salt
- Iodised salt
- Hawaiian red salt
- Black lava salt
- Hawaiian black salt
- Persian blue salt
- Bamboo salt
- Danish Viking salt
- Cyprus flake salt
- Murray River salt
- Truffle salt
- Celery salt
- Garlic salt
- Onion salt
- Seasoned salt
- Lemon salt
- Pickling salt
- Curing salt
- Prague powder
- Salt substitute
- Low-sodium salt
- Epsom salt
- Bath salts
- Road salt
- Gritting salt
How the answers sink
- The Tip7 answers · 10 ptsTable salt · Sea salt · Rock salt
- Below the Surface28 answers · 25 ptsFleur de sel · Sel gris · Celtic salt …
- 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, C, G, H, I, J, K, M, N, O, P, R, S, T, U and Y. The Abyss has 10 more, and one legendary answer waits below them all.
By the numbers
- 68 answers in total, 66 of them longer than one word.
- Shortest: “Maldon”. Longest: “Pembrokeshire sea salt”.
- S, C and P are the most common first letters; together they start 32% of the answers.
- 4 answers can be typed more than one way: “Pink salt” counts as Himalayan salt.
Getting below the surface
- More answers begin with S than with any other letter (10). Run through it first.
- Skip Table salt, Sea salt and Rock salt; everybody says them.
- Spices, grains and fermented foods hide a lot of rare answers.
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Quick answers
- What are the most common answers to “Name a type of salt”?
- Most people start with Table salt, Sea salt, Rock salt, Himalayan salt and Kosher salt. In Icillion they are worth 10 points each, the least of any level.
- How many answers does Icillion accept for “Name a type of salt”?
- 68 in all: 7 on The Tip, 28 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 salt”?
- The shortest accepted answer is “Maldon” and the longest is “Pembrokeshire sea salt”.
- Is “Name a type of salt” 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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