Wildcard trivia
Name something you can see in the sky during the day
Everyone has a first answer to “Name something you can see in the sky during the day”. The game is about the second, the third and the tenth: 129 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.
- Sun
- Clouds
- Birds
- Plane
- Moon
- Rainbow
- Helicopter
The next answers people reach for
A step further down, worth 25 points each:
- Kite
- Hot air balloon
- Contrail
- Rain
- Lightning
- Storm
- Drone
- Parachute
- Paraglider
- Hang glider
- Glider
- Skywriting
- Banner plane
- Airship
- Zeppelin
- Hawk
- Eagle
- Seagull
- Swallow
- Swift
- Butterfly
- Dragonfly
- Bees
- Smoke
- Haze
- Smog
- Hail
- Snowflakes
- Rocket launch
- Satellite
- Space station
- Venus
- Eclipse
- Solar eclipse
- Lunar eclipse
- Crescent moon
- Full moon
- Shooting star
- Fireworks
How deep does “Name something you can see in the sky during the day” go?
- The Tip7 answers · 10 ptsSun · Clouds · Birds
- Below the Surface39 answers · 25 ptsKite · Hot air balloon · Contrail …
- The Deep54 answers · 50 ptsHidden until you play
- The Abyss28 answers · 85 ptsHidden until you play
- Below the Iceberg1 answer · 100 ptsOne legendary answer, waiting in the game
The Deep holds 54 answers starting with A, B, C, D, F, G, H, I, J, K, L, M, O, P, R, S, T, V and W. The Abyss has 28 more, and one legendary answer waits below them all.
By the numbers
- 129 answers in total, 62 of them longer than one word.
- Shortest: “Sun”. Longest: “Planet Venus in daylight”.
- S, C and H are the most common first letters; together they start 39% of the answers.
- 20 answers can be typed more than one way: “Rocket” counts as Rocket launch.
Tips for a rarer answer
- Start with S: 26 of the answers begin with it.
- Sun, Clouds and Birds are safe but shallow. Aim past them.
- Change category: if everyone names food, name a planet, a film character or a flag.
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Questions about this prompt
- What do most people say for “Name something you can see in the sky during the day”?
- The usual first answers are Sun, Clouds, Birds, Plane and Moon. In Icillion they are worth 10 points each, the least of any level.
- How many answers are there to “Name something you can see in the sky during the day”?
- 129 in all: 7 on The Tip, 39 Below the Surface, 54 in The Deep, 28 in The Abyss, and a single legendary answer Below the Iceberg.
- Which answers to “Name something you can see in the sky during the day” are the shortest and the longest?
- The shortest accepted answer is “Sun” and the longest is “Planet Venus in daylight”.
- How hard is “Name something you can see in the sky during the day”?
- Easy. Nearly everyone can name something here, so prompts like this one can appear in the daily iceberg.
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