Wildcard trivia
Name something you find in a haunted house
Everyone has a first answer to “Name something you find in a haunted house”. The game is about the second, the third and the tenth: 97 answers are accepted, ranked by how rarely people think of them.
The obvious answers
Right, but shallow: 7 answers nearly everyone thinks of, worth 10 points each.
- Ghosts
- Cobwebs
- Spiders
- Bats
- Creaky stairs
- Skeletons
- Candles
The next answers people reach for
Second thoughts land here, at 25 points:
- Cobweb
- Dust
- Rats
- Mice
- Cats
- Black cats
- Owls
- Crows
- Ravens
- Coffins
- Graves
- Cemeteries
- Mist
- Fog
- Moonlight
- Thunder
- Lightning
- Storms
- Wind
- Howling
- Screams
- Whispers
- Moans
- Footsteps
- Doors slamming
- Doors creaking
- Windows rattling
- Chains
- Rattling chains
- Paintings with moving eyes
- Portraits
- Mirrors
- Old dolls
- Rocking chairs
- Music boxes
- Pianos
- Attic
- Cellar
- Basement
- Secret rooms
- Hidden passages
- Vampires
- Zombies
- Werewolves
- Witches
- Mummies
- Demons
- Poltergeists
- Spirits
- Phantoms
- Wraiths
- Banshees
How deep does “Name something you find in a haunted house” go?
- The Tip7 answers · 10 ptsGhosts · Cobwebs · Spiders
- Below the Surface52 answers · 25 ptsCobweb · Dust · Rats …
- The Deep24 answers · 50 ptsHidden until you play
- The Abyss13 answers · 85 ptsHidden until you play
- Below the Iceberg1 answer · 100 ptsOne legendary answer, waiting in the game
The Deep holds 24 answers starting with A, C, E, F, G, H, M, O, P, S and T. The Abyss has 13 more, and one legendary answer waits below them all.
Facts about this list
- 97 answers in total, 27 of them longer than one word.
- Shortest: “Fog”. Longest: “Paintings with moving eyes”.
- C, P and S are the most common first letters; together they start 34% of the answers.
How to go deeper
- Start with C: 13 of the answers begin with it.
- Ghosts, Cobwebs and Spiders 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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People also ask
- What do most people say for “Name something you find in a haunted house”?
- The usual first answers are Ghosts, Cobwebs, Spiders, Bats and Creaky stairs. In Icillion they are worth 10 points each, the least of any level.
- How many answers are there to “Name something you find in a haunted house”?
- 97 in all: 7 on The Tip, 52 Below the Surface, 24 in The Deep, 13 in The Abyss, and a single legendary answer Below the Iceberg.
- Which answers to “Name something you find in a haunted house” are the shortest and the longest?
- The shortest accepted answer is “Fog” and the longest is “Paintings with moving eyes”.
- How hard is “Name something you find in a haunted house”?
- Easy. Nearly everyone can name something here, so prompts like this one can appear in the daily iceberg.
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