Wildcard trivia
Name something that comes in twelves
Everyone has a first answer to “Name something that comes in twelves”. The game is about the second, the third and the tenth: 68 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.
- Eggs
- Months
- Zodiac signs
- Apostles
- Hours on a clock
- Jurors
- Inches in a foot
The next answers people reach for
A step further down, worth 25 points each:
- Doughnuts
- Roses
- Labours of Hercules
- Olympian gods
- Tribes of Israel
- Days of Christmas
- Notes of the chromatic scale
- Twelve Imams
- Ocean's Twelve
- Twelfth Night
- Twelve Angry Men
- 12 Monkeys
- Twelve Tables
- Twelve Caesars
- Stars on the EU flag
- Twelve-step programme
- Twelve-bar blues
- Dirty Dozen
- Baker's dozen
- Pennies in a shilling
- Knights of the Round Table
- Gross
- Dozen
- Great gross
- Duodecimal
How deep does “Name something that comes in twelves” go?
- The Tip7 answers · 10 ptsEggs · Months · Zodiac signs
- Below the Surface25 answers · 25 ptsDoughnuts · Roses · Labours of Hercules …
- The Deep23 answers · 50 ptsHidden until you play
- The Abyss12 answers · 85 ptsHidden until you play
- Below the Iceberg1 answer · 100 ptsOne legendary answer, waiting in the game
The Deep holds 23 answers starting with C, D and T. The Abyss has 12 more, and one legendary answer waits below them all.
By the numbers
- 68 answers in total, 55 of them longer than one word.
- Shortest: “Eggs”. Longest: “Twelve Months of Hijri calendar”.
- T, D and G are the most common first letters; together they start 62% of the answers.
- 30 answers can be typed more than one way: “d12” counts as Twelve-sided die.
Tips for a rarer answer
- Start with T: 28 of the answers begin with it.
- Eggs, Months and Zodiac signs are safe but shallow. Aim past them.
- Think of things, then of words: keys can be on a piano, on a map or off the coast of Florida.
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Questions about this prompt
- What do most people say for “Name something that comes in twelves”?
- The usual first answers are Eggs, Months, Zodiac signs, Apostles and Hours on a clock. In Icillion they are worth 10 points each, the least of any level.
- How many answers are there to “Name something that comes in twelves”?
- 68 in all: 7 on The Tip, 25 Below the Surface, 23 in The Deep, 12 in The Abyss, and a single legendary answer Below the Iceberg.
- Which answers to “Name something that comes in twelves” are the shortest and the longest?
- The shortest accepted answer is “Eggs” and the longest is “Twelve Months of Hijri calendar”.
- How hard is “Name something that comes in twelves”?
- Easy. Nearly everyone can name something here, so prompts like this one can appear in the daily iceberg.
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