Nature trivia
Name a type of jellyfish
70 answers count for this nature prompt. Here is what floats on top, what sits just below the waterline, and how far down the rest go.
Floating on top
These are the answers most people give first. They count, but they barely move you: 10 points each.
- Moon jellyfish
- Box jellyfish
- Portuguese man o' war
- Lion's mane jellyfish
- Sea nettle
- Compass jellyfish
- Barrel jellyfish
Below the waterline
Second thoughts land here, at 25 points:
- Blue jellyfish
- Mauve stinger
- Pelagia noctiluca
- Fried egg jellyfish
- Cauliflower jellyfish
- Cannonball jellyfish
- Upside-down jellyfish
- Spotted jellyfish
- Irukandji
- Sea wasp
- Turritopsis dohrnii
- Crystal jellyfish
- Comb jelly
- Sea gooseberry
- Mushroom jellyfish
- Atlantic sea nettle
- Pacific sea nettle
- Black sea nettle
- Blue blubber jellyfish
- Australian spotted jellyfish
- Cassiopea
- By-the-wind sailor
- Blue button
- Porpita
- Salp
- Sea walnut
- Venus's girdle
- Giant jellyfish
- Nomura's jellyfish
- Echizen kurage
The iceberg for “Name a type of jellyfish”
- The Tip7 answers · 10 ptsMoon jellyfish · Box jellyfish · Portuguese man o' war
- Below the Surface30 answers · 25 ptsBlue jellyfish · Mauve stinger · Pelagia noctiluca …
- 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, M, P and T. The Abyss has 10 more, and one legendary answer waits below them all.
Inside the answer list
- 70 answers in total, 58 of them longer than one word.
- Shortest: “Salp”. Longest: “Australian spotted jellyfish”.
- C, B and S are the most common first letters; together they start 54% of the answers.
- 1 answers can be typed more than one way: “Velella” counts as By-the-wind sailor.
How to go deeper
- More answers begin with C than with any other letter (24). Run through it first.
- Skip Moon jellyfish, Box jellyfish and Portuguese man o' war; 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 type of jellyfish”?
- Most people start with Moon jellyfish, Box jellyfish, Portuguese man o' war, Lion's mane jellyfish and Sea nettle. In Icillion they are worth 10 points each, the least of any level.
- How many answers does Icillion accept for “Name a type of jellyfish”?
- 70 in all: 7 on The Tip, 30 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 jellyfish”?
- The shortest accepted answer is “Salp” and the longest is “Australian spotted jellyfish”.
- Is “Name a type of jellyfish” 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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