Food trivia
Name a type of sugar
Can you get past the obvious ones? Icillion accepts 73 answers to “Name a type of sugar”, 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.
- White sugar
- Brown sugar
- Caster sugar
- Icing sugar
- Granulated sugar
- Demerara
- Muscovado
Just below the surface
A step further down, worth 25 points each:
- Cane sugar
- Beet sugar
- Coconut sugar
- Palm sugar
- Panela
- Piloncillo
- Rapadura
- Turbinado
- Golden caster
- Light brown sugar
- Dark brown sugar
- Preserving sugar
- Jam sugar
- Sugar cubes
- Lump sugar
- Rock sugar
- Candy sugar
- Pearl sugar
- Sanding sugar
- Vanilla sugar
- Maple sugar
- Date sugar
- Sucanat
- Stevia
- Xylitol
- Erythritol
- Aspartame
- Sucralose
- Saccharin
- Agave
- Honey
- Molasses
- Treacle
- Golden syrup
- Corn syrup
How the answers sink
- The Tip7 answers · 10 ptsWhite sugar · Brown sugar · Caster sugar
- Below the Surface35 answers · 25 ptsCane sugar · Beet sugar · Coconut sugar …
- The Deep20 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 20 answers starting with B, C, G, K, M, P, R, S and W. The Abyss has 10 more, and one legendary answer waits below them all.
By the numbers
- 73 answers in total, 35 of them longer than one word.
- Shortest: “Gud”. Longest: “Light brown sugar”.
- S, G and P are the most common first letters; together they start 38% of the answers.
- 5 answers can be typed more than one way: “Papelon” counts as Papelón.
Getting below the surface
- More answers begin with S than with any other letter (12). Run through it first.
- Skip White sugar, Brown sugar and Caster sugar; 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 sugar”?
- Most people start with White sugar, Brown sugar, Caster sugar, Icing sugar and Granulated sugar. In Icillion they are worth 10 points each, the least of any level.
- How many answers does Icillion accept for “Name a type of sugar”?
- 73 in all: 7 on The Tip, 35 Below the Surface, 20 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 sugar”?
- The shortest accepted answer is “Gud” and the longest is “Light brown sugar”.
- Is “Name a type of sugar” 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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