Nature trivia
Name a breed of sheep
“Name a breed of sheep” is one of 98 nature prompts in Icillion. Of its 151 accepted answers, 12 are the ones nearly everyone says first; the rest sink deeper the rarer they are.
The tip of the iceberg
These are the answers most people give first. They count, but they barely move you: 10 points each.
- Merino
- Suffolk
- Texel
- Jacob
- Herdwick
- Cheviot
- Scottish Blackface
- Dorset
- Shetland
- Swaledale
- Welsh Mountain
- Romney
One step down
A step further down, worth 25 points each:
- Hampshire Down
- Southdown
- Oxford Down
- Shropshire
- Leicester Longwool
- Border Leicester
- Bluefaced Leicester
- Lincoln Longwool
- Cotswold
- Wensleydale
- Teeswater
- Dartmoor
- Exmoor Horn
- Soay
- Hebridean
- North Ronaldsay
- Manx Loaghtan
- Beulah Speckled Face
- Lleyn
- Kerry Hill
- Clun Forest
- Ryeland
- Badger Face Welsh Mountain
- Balwen
- Rough Fell
- Lonk
- Derbyshire Gritstone
- Whitefaced Woodland
- Dalesbred
- Masham
- North of England Mule
- Charollais
- Beltex
- Valais Blacknose
- Karakul
- Dorper
- Katahdin
- Rambouillet
- Corriedale
- Polwarth
- Columbia
- Targhee
- Navajo-Churro
- Icelandic
- Finnsheep
- Romanov
- East Friesian
- Lacaune
- Awassi
- Barbados Blackbelly
- St Croix
- Damara
- Black Welsh Mountain
- North Country Cheviot
Answers by level
- The Tip12 answers · 10 ptsMerino · Suffolk · Texel
- Below the Surface54 answers · 25 ptsHampshire Down · Southdown · Oxford Down …
- The Deep43 answers · 50 ptsHidden until you play
- The Abyss41 answers · 85 ptsHidden until you play
- Below the Iceberg1 answer · 100 ptsOne legendary answer, waiting in the game
The Deep holds 43 answers starting with A, B, C, D, F, G, H, I, L, M, N, P, R, T, V, W and Z. The Abyss has 41 more, and one legendary answer waits below them all.
By the numbers
- 151 answers in total, 58 of them longer than one word.
- Shortest: “Gute”. Longest: “Devon and Cornwall Longwool”.
- B, C and D are the most common first letters; together they start 29% of the answers.
- 13 answers can be typed more than one way: “Mule” counts as North of England Mule.
Tips for a rarer answer
- Start with B: 15 of the answers begin with it.
- Merino, Suffolk and Texel 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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People also ask
- What do most people say for “Name a breed of sheep”?
- The usual first answers are Merino, Suffolk, Texel, Jacob and Herdwick. In Icillion they are worth 10 points each, the least of any level.
- How many answers are there to “Name a breed of sheep”?
- 151 in all: 12 on The Tip, 54 Below the Surface, 43 in The Deep, 41 in The Abyss, and a single legendary answer Below the Iceberg.
- Which answers to “Name a breed of sheep” are the shortest and the longest?
- The shortest accepted answer is “Gute” and the longest is “Devon and Cornwall Longwool”.
- How hard is “Name a breed of sheep”?
- Hard. It rewards people who know the subject well. It comes up in Free play on Hard and Mixed.
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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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