Nature trivia
Name a type of grass
Can you get past the obvious ones? Icillion accepts 73 answers to “Name a type of grass”, 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.
- Lawn grass
- Wheat
- Barley
- Bamboo
- Sugar cane
- Rice
- Maize
Just below the surface
A step further down, worth 25 points each:
- Ryegrass
- Perennial ryegrass
- Fescue
- Meadow grass
- Bent grass
- Bermuda grass
- Kentucky bluegrass
- Buffalo grass
- Zoysia grass
- St Augustine grass
- Marram grass
- Couch grass
- Timothy grass
- Cocksfoot
- Yorkshire fog
- Sweet vernal grass
- Quaking grass
- Fountain grass
- Feather reed grass
- Pennisetum
- Miscanthus
- Elephant grass
- Lemon grass
- Papyrus
- Reed
- Bulrush
- Cotton grass
- Oats
- Rye
- Sorghum
- Millet
- Teff
- Spelt
How the answers sink
- The Tip7 answers · 10 ptsLawn grass · Wheat · Barley
- Below the Surface33 answers · 25 ptsRyegrass · Perennial ryegrass · Fescue …
- 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 B, C, E, I, L, M, N, P, S, T and V. The Abyss has 10 more, and one legendary answer waits below them all.
By the numbers
- 73 answers in total, 41 of them longer than one word.
- Shortest: “Poa”. Longest: “Annual meadow grass”.
- S, P and B are the most common first letters; together they start 41% of the answers.
Getting below the surface
- More answers begin with S than with any other letter (12). Run through it first.
- Skip Lawn grass, Wheat and Barley; everybody says them.
- Breeds and varieties are a goldmine for rare answers.
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Quick answers
- What are the most common answers to “Name a type of grass”?
- Most people start with Lawn grass, Wheat, Barley, Bamboo and Sugar cane. In Icillion they are worth 10 points each, the least of any level.
- How many answers does Icillion accept for “Name a type of grass”?
- 73 in all: 7 on The Tip, 33 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 grass”?
- The shortest accepted answer is “Poa” and the longest is “Annual meadow grass”.
- Is “Name a type of grass” 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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