Wildcard trivia
Name something you find in space
Everyone has a first answer to “Name something you find in space”. The game is about the second, the third and the tenth: 118 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.
- Stars
- Planets
- Moons
- Asteroids
- Comets
- Black holes
- Astronauts
The next answers people reach for
A step further down, worth 25 points each:
- Satellites
- Space stations
- ISS
- Rockets
- Spacecraft
- Space probes
- Telescopes
- Hubble
- Galaxies
- Nebulae
- Supernovae
- Pulsars
- Quasars
- Meteors
- Meteoroids
- Space junk
- Debris
- Dust
- Gas
- Vacuum
- Radiation
- Cosmic rays
- Solar wind
- Solar flares
- Aurora
- Magnetosphere
- Gravity
- Dark matter
- Dark energy
- Aliens
- UFOs
- Voyager
- Apollo
- Space shuttle
- Mars rover
- Moon base
- Lunar module
- Flag
- Golf balls
- Tesla Roadster
- Starman
- Laika
- Ham the chimp
How deep does “Name something you find in space” go?
- The Tip7 answers · 10 ptsStars · Planets · Moons
- Below the Surface43 answers · 25 ptsSatellites · Space stations · ISS …
- The Deep46 answers · 50 ptsHidden until you play
- The Abyss21 answers · 85 ptsHidden until you play
- Below the Iceberg1 answer · 100 ptsOne legendary answer, waiting in the game
The Deep holds 46 answers starting with A, B, C, E, F, G, H, I, K, L, M, O, P, R, S, T, V and Z. The Abyss has 21 more, and one legendary answer waits below them all.
By the numbers
- 118 answers in total, 67 of them longer than one word.
- Shortest: “Gas”. Longest: “Local Interstellar Cloud”.
- S, G and A are the most common first letters; together they start 29% of the answers.
Tips for a rarer answer
- Start with S: 16 of the answers begin with it.
- Stars, Planets and Moons 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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Questions about this prompt
- What do most people say for “Name something you find in space”?
- The usual first answers are Stars, Planets, Moons, Asteroids and Comets. In Icillion they are worth 10 points each, the least of any level.
- How many answers are there to “Name something you find in space”?
- 118 in all: 7 on The Tip, 43 Below the Surface, 46 in The Deep, 21 in The Abyss, and a single legendary answer Below the Iceberg.
- Which answers to “Name something you find in space” are the shortest and the longest?
- The shortest accepted answer is “Gas” and the longest is “Local Interstellar Cloud”.
- How hard is “Name something you find in space”?
- Easy. Nearly everyone can name something here, so prompts like this one can appear in the daily iceberg.
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