Nature trivia
Name a houseplant
Can you get past the obvious ones? Icillion accepts 200 answers to “Name a houseplant”, and only 12 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.
- Spider Plant
- Aloe Vera
- Cactus
- Snake Plant
- Peace Lily
- Rubber Plant
- Monstera
- Fern
- Orchid
- Pothos
- Succulent
- Ivy
Just below the surface
A step further down, worth 25 points each:
- Fiddle Leaf Fig
- ZZ Plant
- Jade Plant
- Money Tree
- Philodendron
- African Violet
- Poinsettia
- Christmas Cactus
- Weeping Fig
- Yucca
- Parlor Palm
- Areca Palm
- Chinese Evergreen
- Dracaena
- Boston Fern
- Begonia
- Bonsai
- Lucky Bamboo
- Venus Flytrap
- Calathea
- Chinese Money Plant
- Cyclamen
- Amaryllis
- Geranium
- Cast Iron Plant
- Croton
- Anthurium
- Bird of Paradise
- Hoya
- String of Pearls
- Echeveria
- Kalanchoe
- Dieffenbachia
- Umbrella Plant
- Tradescantia
- Coleus
- Bromeliad
- Air Plant
- Peperomia
- Gardenia
- Jasmine
- Maranta
How the answers sink
- The Tip12 answers · 10 ptsSpider Plant · Aloe Vera · Cactus
- Below the Surface42 answers · 25 ptsFiddle Leaf Fig · ZZ Plant · Jade Plant …
- The Deep79 answers · 50 ptsHidden until you play
- The Abyss66 answers · 85 ptsHidden until you play
- Below the Iceberg1 answer · 100 ptsOne legendary answer, waiting in the game
The Deep holds 79 answers starting with A, B, C, D, E, F, G, H, K, L, M, N, O, P, R, S, T, U, W and Z. The Abyss has 66 more, and one legendary answer waits below them all.
By the numbers
- 200 answers in total, 148 of them longer than one word.
- Shortest: “Ivy”. Longest: “Monstera Thai Constellation”.
- P, C and S are the most common first letters; together they start 35% of the answers.
- 105 answers can be typed more than one way: “Alocasia Amazonica” counts as Alocasia Polly.
Getting below the surface
- More answers begin with P than with any other letter (26). Run through it first.
- Skip Spider Plant, Aloe Vera and Cactus; everybody says them.
- Go local: species from one continent or one ocean are often left out by everybody else.
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Quick answers
- What are the most common answers to “Name a houseplant”?
- Most people start with Spider Plant, Aloe Vera, Cactus, Snake Plant and Peace Lily. In Icillion they are worth 10 points each, the least of any level.
- How many answers does Icillion accept for “Name a houseplant”?
- 200 in all: 12 on The Tip, 42 Below the Surface, 79 in The Deep, 66 in The Abyss, and a single legendary answer Below the Iceberg.
- What is the shortest answer to “Name a houseplant”?
- The shortest accepted answer is “Ivy” and the longest is “Monstera Thai Constellation”.
- Is “Name a houseplant” 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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