What do most people say for “Name an animal people keep as a pet”?

The usual first answers are Dog, Cat, Fish, Hamster and Rabbit. In Icillion they are worth 10 points each, the least of any level.

How many answers are there to “Name an animal people keep as a pet”?

94 in all: 5 on The Tip, 18 Below the Surface, 31 in The Deep, 39 in The Abyss, and a single legendary answer Below the Iceberg.

Which answers to “Name an animal people keep as a pet” are the shortest and the longest?

The shortest accepted answer is “Cat” and the longest is “African grey parrot”.

How hard is “Name an animal people keep as a pet”?

Easy. Nearly everyone can name something here, so prompts like this one can appear in the daily iceberg.

Nature trivia

Name an animal people keep as a pet

Everyone has a first answer to “Name an animal people keep as a pet”. The game is about the second, the third and the tenth: 94 answers are accepted, ranked by how rarely people think of them.

The obvious answers

Say one of these and you stay near the surface, with 10 points.

Dog
Cat
Fish
Hamster
Rabbit

The next answers people reach for

A step further down, worth 25 points each:

Goldfish
Guinea pig
Parrot
Budgie
Turtle
Snake
Horse
Mouse
Rat
Gerbil
Lizard
Tortoise
Ferret
Canary
Hedgehog
Chinchilla
Bird
Frog

How deep does “Name an animal people keep as a pet” go?

Level	Accepted answers	Points
The Tip	5	10
Below the Surface	18	25
The Deep	31	50
The Abyss	39	85
Below the Iceberg	1	100

The Deep holds 31 answers starting with A, B, C, D, F, G, H, I, K, L, M, N, P, S and T. The Abyss has 39 more, and one legendary answer waits below them all.

Inside the answer list

94 answers in total, 25 of them longer than one word.
Shortest: “Cat”. Longest: “African grey parrot”.
C, S and P are the most common first letters; together they start 37% of the answers.
13 answers can be typed more than one way: “Betta fish” counts as Betta.

Getting below the surface

Start with C: 16 of the answers begin with it.
Dog, Cat and Fish are safe but shallow. Aim past them.
Go local: species from one continent or one ocean are often left out by everybody else.

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Quick answers

What do most people say for “Name an animal people keep as a pet”?: The usual first answers are Dog, Cat, Fish, Hamster and Rabbit. In Icillion they are worth 10 points each, the least of any level.
How many answers are there to “Name an animal people keep as a pet”?: 94 in all: 5 on The Tip, 18 Below the Surface, 31 in The Deep, 39 in The Abyss, and a single legendary answer Below the Iceberg.
Which answers to “Name an animal people keep as a pet” are the shortest and the longest?: The shortest accepted answer is “Cat” and the longest is “African grey parrot”.
How hard is “Name an animal people keep as a pet”?: Easy. Nearly everyone can name something here, so prompts like this one can appear in the daily iceberg.

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