Nature trivia
Name a type of snail
Everyone has a first answer to “Name a type of snail”. The game is about the second, the third and the tenth: 76 answers are accepted, ranked by how rarely people think of them.
The obvious answers
These are the answers most people give first. They count, but they barely move you: 10 points each.
- Garden snail
- Giant African land snail
- Apple snail
- Sea snail
- Slug
- Escargot
- Whelk
The next answers people reach for
These 36 are known, but not the first thing people say. 25 points each:
- Roman snail
- Brown garden snail
- White-lipped snail
- Banded snail
- Grove snail
- Cepaea nemoralis
- Cepaea hortensis
- Ramshorn snail
- Pond snail
- Great pond snail
- Mystery snail
- Nerite snail
- Malaysian trumpet snail
- Assassin snail
- Rabbit snail
- Trapdoor snail
- Periwinkle
- Winkle
- Limpet
- Cowrie
- Cone snail
- Moon snail
- Murex
- Triton
- Helmet shell
- Abalone
- Top shell
- Turban shell
- Spindle shell
- Auger shell
- Olive shell
- Volute
- Harp shell
- Mitre shell
- Cerith
- Tulip shell
How deep does “Name a type of snail” go?
- The Tip7 answers · 10 ptsGarden snail · Giant African land snail · Apple snail
- Below the Surface36 answers · 25 ptsRoman snail · Brown garden snail · White-lipped snail …
- 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 B, C, E, G, J, L, N, P, S, T and V. The Abyss has 10 more, and one legendary answer waits below them all.
Inside the answer list
- 76 answers in total, 56 of them longer than one word.
- Shortest: “Slug”. Longest: “Giant African land snail”.
- C, G and S are the most common first letters; together they start 37% of the answers.
- 2 answers can be typed more than one way: “Cornu aspersum” counts as Brown garden snail.
Getting below the surface
- Start with C: 12 of the answers begin with it.
- Garden snail, Giant African land snail and Apple snail 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 a type of snail”?
- The usual first answers are Garden snail, Giant African land snail, Apple snail, Sea snail and Slug. In Icillion they are worth 10 points each, the least of any level.
- How many answers are there to “Name a type of snail”?
- 76 in all: 7 on The Tip, 36 Below the Surface, 22 in The Deep, 10 in The Abyss, and a single legendary answer Below the Iceberg.
- Which answers to “Name a type of snail” are the shortest and the longest?
- The shortest accepted answer is “Slug” and the longest is “Giant African land snail”.
- How hard is “Name a type of snail”?
- 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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