Nature trivia
Name a type of seaweed
Can you get past the obvious ones? Icillion accepts 87 answers to “Name a type of seaweed”, and only 6 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.
- Kelp
- Nori
- Wakame
- Kombu
- Bladderwrack
- Sea lettuce
Just below the surface
A step further down, worth 25 points each:
- Irish moss
- Hijiki
- Arame
- Laver
- Agar
- Spirulina
- Chlorella
- Sea spaghetti
- Sea grapes
- Mozuku
- Ogonori
- Gracilaria
- Bull kelp
- Giant kelp
- Sugar kelp
- Oarweed
- Thongweed
- Knotted wrack
- Serrated wrack
- Spiral wrack
- Channelled wrack
- Egg wrack
- Sargassum
- Gulfweed
- Sea oak
- Pepper dulse
- Sea belt
- Dabberlocks
- Sea palm
- Winged kelp
- Alaria
- Bladder kelp
- Feather boa kelp
- Rockweed
- Gim
- Kim
- Miyeok
- Tae
- Parae
- Hizikia
- Karengo
- Rimurapa
- Rimu
- Rimurimu
- Limu
- Limu kohu
- Limu manauea
- Ogo
How the answers sink
- The Tip6 answers · 10 ptsKelp · Nori · Wakame
- Below the Surface48 answers · 25 ptsIrish moss · Hijiki · Arame …
- 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, D, E, G, L, M, N, P, S and U. The Abyss has 10 more, and one legendary answer waits below them all.
By the numbers
- 87 answers in total, 40 of them longer than one word.
- Shortest: “Gim”. Longest: “Nereocystis luetkeana”.
- S, G and K are the most common first letters; together they start 34% of the answers.
- 2 answers can be typed more than one way: “Carrageen” counts as Irish moss.
Getting below the surface
- More answers begin with S than with any other letter (14). Run through it first.
- Skip Kelp, Nori and Wakame; 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 seaweed”?
- Most people start with Kelp, Nori, Wakame, Kombu and Bladderwrack. In Icillion they are worth 10 points each, the least of any level.
- How many answers does Icillion accept for “Name a type of seaweed”?
- 87 in all: 6 on The Tip, 48 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 seaweed”?
- The shortest accepted answer is “Gim” and the longest is “Nereocystis luetkeana”.
- Is “Name a type of seaweed” 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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