Wildcard trivia
Name something you can catch
Everyone has a first answer to “Name something you can catch”. The game is about the second, the third and the tenth: 113 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.
- Cold
- Fish
- Bus
- Train
- Flu
- Wave
- Thief
The next answers people reach for
Second thoughts land here, at 25 points:
- Butterfly
- Frisbee
- Pokémon
- Fire
- Breath
- Sun
- Drift
- Bug
- Virus
- Disease
- Plane
- Taxi
- Fly
- Mouse
- Rat
- Ferry
- Tram
- Someone's eye
- Glimpse
- Attention
- Wind
- Lightning in a bottle
- Falling star
- Snowflake
- Rain
- Dream
- Crab
- Lobster
- Whale
- Shrimp
- Tuna
- Salmon
- Marlin
- Bouquet
- Pass
- Fly ball
- Cricket ball
How deep does “Name something you can catch” go?
- The Tip7 answers · 10 ptsCold · Fish · Bus
- Below the Surface37 answers · 25 ptsButterfly · Frisbee · Pokémon …
- The Deep43 answers · 50 ptsHidden until you play
- The Abyss25 answers · 85 ptsHidden until you play
- Below the Iceberg1 answer · 100 ptsOne legendary answer, waiting in the game
The Deep holds 43 answers starting with B, C, E, F, G, H, L, M, P, R, S, T, Y and Z. The Abyss has 25 more, and one legendary answer waits below them all.
Facts about this list
- 113 answers in total, 23 of them longer than one word.
- Shortest: “Bug”. Longest: “Mechazilla chopsticks”.
- F, S and B are the most common first letters; together they start 36% of the answers.
- 19 answers can be typed more than one way: “Ride” counts as Lift.
How to go deeper
- Start with F: 14 of the answers begin with it.
- Cold, Fish and Bus 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 can catch”?
- The usual first answers are Cold, Fish, Bus, Train and Flu. In Icillion they are worth 10 points each, the least of any level.
- How many answers are there to “Name something you can catch”?
- 113 in all: 7 on The Tip, 37 Below the Surface, 43 in The Deep, 25 in The Abyss, and a single legendary answer Below the Iceberg.
- Which answers to “Name something you can catch” are the shortest and the longest?
- The shortest accepted answer is “Bug” and the longest is “Mechazilla chopsticks”.
- How hard is “Name something you can catch”?
- Easy. Nearly everyone can name something here, so prompts like this one can appear in the daily iceberg.
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How deep does your knowledge go?
Seven prompts a day, twenty seconds each. Obvious answers float on the tip of the iceberg; rare ones sink all the way to the trench.
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