Wildcard trivia
Name something hot
Everyone has a first answer to “Name something hot”. The game is about the second, the third and the tenth: 209 answers are accepted, ranked by how rarely people think of them.
The obvious answers
These are the answers most people give first. They count, but they barely move you: 10 points each.
- Sun
- Fire
- Oven
- Coffee
- Tea
The next answers people reach for
These 28 are known, but not the first thing people say. 25 points each:
- Stove
- Kettle
- Lava
- Volcano
- Desert
- Summer
- Chilli
- Soup
- Hot chocolate
- Iron
- Toaster
- Frying pan
- Barbecue
- Candle
- Sauna
- Hot tub
- Bath
- Shower
- Radiator
- Heater
- Fireplace
- Hairdryer
- Hair straighteners
- Microwave
- Pizza
- Hot dog
- Hot sauce
- Jalapeño
How deep does “Name something hot” go?
- The Tip5 answers · 10 ptsSun · Fire · Oven
- Below the Surface28 answers · 25 ptsStove · Kettle · Lava …
- The Deep88 answers · 50 ptsHidden until you play
- The Abyss87 answers · 85 ptsHidden until you play
- Below the Iceberg1 answer · 100 ptsOne legendary answer, waiting in the game
The Deep holds 88 answers starting with A, B, C, D, E, F, G, H, I, J, K, L, M, N, O, P, Q, R, S, T, V, W and Y. The Abyss has 87 more, and one legendary answer waits below them all.
Inside the answer list
- 209 answers in total, 90 of them longer than one word.
- Shortest: “Io”. Longest: “Red Hot Chili Peppers”.
- H, S and M are the most common first letters; together they start 36% of the answers.
- 87 answers can be typed more than one way: “Hot Jupiters” counts as Hot Jupiter.
Getting below the surface
- Start with H: 38 of the answers begin with it.
- Sun, Fire and Oven 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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Quick answers
- What do most people say for “Name something hot”?
- The usual first answers are Sun, Fire, Oven, Coffee and Tea. In Icillion they are worth 10 points each, the least of any level.
- How many answers are there to “Name something hot”?
- 209 in all: 5 on The Tip, 28 Below the Surface, 88 in The Deep, 87 in The Abyss, and a single legendary answer Below the Iceberg.
- Which answers to “Name something hot” are the shortest and the longest?
- The shortest accepted answer is “Io” and the longest is “Red Hot Chili Peppers”.
- How hard is “Name something hot”?
- 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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