Wildcard trivia
Name something that comes in tens
Everyone has a first answer to “Name something that comes in tens”. The game is about the second, the third and the tenth: 58 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.
- Commandments
- Bowling pins
- Fingers
- Toes
- Digits
- Plagues of Egypt
- Decathlon events
The next answers people reach for
A step further down, worth 25 points each:
- Downing Street
- Top ten
- Green bottles
- Little Indians
- Lords a-leaping
- Ten-pin bowling
- Gurus of Sikhism
- Avatars of Vishnu
- Virgins
- Lost Tribes
- Sephirot
- Ten Days That Shook the World
- Ten Things I Hate About You
- 10cc
- Ten Years After
- Ten Pound Poms
- Ten Tors
- Decade
- Decimal
- Tenner
- Ten-pound note
- Ten pence
- Dime
- Perfect ten
- Ten out of ten
- Ten-gallon hat
- Ten Cents
- Ten Bells
- Ten Thousand Hours
- Ten Percent
- Rule of ten
How deep does “Name something that comes in tens” go?
- The Tip7 answers · 10 ptsCommandments · Bowling pins · Fingers
- Below the Surface31 answers · 25 ptsDowning Street · Top ten · Green bottles …
- The Deep11 answers · 50 ptsHidden until you play
- The Abyss8 answers · 85 ptsHidden until you play
- Below the Iceberg1 answer · 100 ptsOne legendary answer, waiting in the game
The Deep holds 11 answers starting with D and T. The Abyss has 8 more, and one legendary answer waits below them all.
Inside the answer list
- 58 answers in total, 42 of them longer than one word.
- Shortest: “10cc”. Longest: “Ten Days That Shook the World”.
- T, D and L are the most common first letters; together they start 78% of the answers.
- 19 answers can be typed more than one way: “Ravana's heads” counts as Ten heads of Ravana.
Getting below the surface
- Start with T: 31 of the answers begin with it.
- Commandments, Bowling pins and Fingers are safe but shallow. Aim past them.
- Pop culture counts: cartoon characters, logos and video game items are all fair game.
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Quick answers
- What do most people say for “Name something that comes in tens”?
- The usual first answers are Commandments, Bowling pins, Fingers, Toes and Digits. In Icillion they are worth 10 points each, the least of any level.
- How many answers are there to “Name something that comes in tens”?
- 58 in all: 7 on The Tip, 31 Below the Surface, 11 in The Deep, 8 in The Abyss, and a single legendary answer Below the Iceberg.
- Which answers to “Name something that comes in tens” are the shortest and the longest?
- The shortest accepted answer is “10cc” and the longest is “Ten Days That Shook the World”.
- How hard is “Name something that comes in tens”?
- Easy. Nearly everyone can name something here, so prompts like this one can appear in the daily iceberg.
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