Nature trivia
Name a type of tortoise
Everyone has a first answer to “Name a type of tortoise”. The game is about the second, the third and the tenth: 70 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.
- Giant tortoise
- Galápagos tortoise
- Aldabra giant tortoise
- Hermann's tortoise
- Greek tortoise
- Leopard tortoise
- Red-footed tortoise
The next answers people reach for
A step further down, worth 25 points each:
- Sulcata tortoise
- Russian tortoise
- Horsfield's tortoise
- Marginated tortoise
- Spur-thighed tortoise
- Egyptian tortoise
- Star tortoise
- Indian star tortoise
- Burmese star tortoise
- Radiated tortoise
- Ploughshare tortoise
- Spider tortoise
- Desert tortoise
- Gopher tortoise
- Texas tortoise
- Bolson tortoise
- Yellow-footed tortoise
- Elongated tortoise
- Impressed tortoise
- Travancore tortoise
- Forsten's tortoise
- Asian forest tortoise
- Hinge-back tortoise
- Bell's hingeback
- Home's hingeback
- Speke's hinge-back tortoise
- Tent tortoise
- Padloper
- Parrot-beaked tortoise
- Karoo tortoise
How deep does “Name a type of tortoise” go?
- The Tip7 answers · 10 ptsGiant tortoise · Galápagos tortoise · Aldabra giant tortoise
- Below the Surface30 answers · 25 ptsSulcata tortoise · Russian tortoise · Horsfield's tortoise …
- 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, F, L, P, S and V. The Abyss has 10 more, and one legendary answer waits below them all.
By the numbers
- 70 answers in total, 67 of them longer than one word.
- Shortest: “Padloper”. Longest: “Speke's hinge-back tortoise”.
- C, S and G are the most common first letters; together they start 34% of the answers.
- 4 answers can be typed more than one way: “African spurred tortoise” counts as Sulcata tortoise.
Tips for a rarer answer
- Start with C: 11 of the answers begin with it.
- Giant tortoise, Galápagos tortoise and Aldabra giant tortoise 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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Questions about this prompt
- What do most people say for “Name a type of tortoise”?
- The usual first answers are Giant tortoise, Galápagos tortoise, Aldabra giant tortoise, Hermann's tortoise and Greek tortoise. In Icillion they are worth 10 points each, the least of any level.
- How many answers are there to “Name a type of tortoise”?
- 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.
- Which answers to “Name a type of tortoise” are the shortest and the longest?
- The shortest accepted answer is “Padloper” and the longest is “Speke's hinge-back tortoise”.
- How hard is “Name a type of tortoise”?
- Easy. Nearly everyone can name something here, so prompts like this one can appear in the daily iceberg.
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