Wildcard trivia
Name something slow
“Name something slow” is one of 274 wildcard prompts in Icillion. Of its 123 accepted answers, 7 are the ones nearly everyone says first; the rest sink deeper the rarer they are.
The tip of the iceberg
Say one of these and you stay near the surface, with 10 points.
- Snail
- Tortoise
- Glacier
- Slug
- Queue
- Dial-up internet
- Wi-Fi
One step down
Second thoughts land here, at 25 points:
- Caterpillar
- Sunday driver
- Bureaucracy
- Government
- Red tape
- Post office
- Elderly person
- Zombie
- Walking pace
- Funeral procession
- Hearse
- Tractor
- Combine harvester
- Steam train
- Canal boat
- Barge
- Rowing boat
- Donkey
- Ox
- Cow
- Manatee
- Sea cow
- Koala
- Giant tortoise
- Galápagos tortoise
- Gila monster
- Slow worm
- Starfish
- Sea star
- Sea cucumber
- Sea anemone
- Clam
- Oyster
- Barnacle
- Limpet
- Chameleon
- Pangolin
- Anteater
- Sloth bear
- Slow loris
- Aye-aye
- Tree
- Plants growing
- Watching paint dry
- Grass growing
- Slow cooker
- Slow food
- Slow motion
- Slow dance
- Slow jam
- Ballad
- Largo
- Adagio
- Lento
- Monday morning
- School day
- Long journey
- Long meeting
- Meeting
- Lecture
- Queue at the bank
- Supermarket checkout
- DMV
- Customs
- Airport security
- Check-in desk
Answers by level
- The Tip7 answers · 10 ptsSnail · Tortoise · Glacier
- Below the Surface66 answers · 25 ptsCaterpillar · Sunday driver · Bureaucracy …
- The Deep34 answers · 50 ptsHidden until you play
- The Abyss15 answers · 85 ptsHidden until you play
- Below the Iceberg1 answer · 100 ptsOne legendary answer, waiting in the game
The Deep holds 34 answers starting with A, B, C, D, E, F, G, I, K, M, O, P, S, T and W. The Abyss has 15 more, and one legendary answer waits below them all.
Inside the answer list
- 123 answers in total, 72 of them longer than one word.
- Shortest: “Ox”. Longest: “Hawaiian island chain formation”.
- S, C and T are the most common first letters; together they start 39% of the answers.
- 11 answers can be typed more than one way: “Paint drying” counts as Watching paint dry.
Getting below the surface
- Start with S: 26 of the answers begin with it.
- Snail, Tortoise and Glacier 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 slow”?
- The usual first answers are Snail, Tortoise, Glacier, Slug and Queue. In Icillion they are worth 10 points each, the least of any level.
- How many answers are there to “Name something slow”?
- 123 in all: 7 on The Tip, 66 Below the Surface, 34 in The Deep, 15 in The Abyss, and a single legendary answer Below the Iceberg.
- Which answers to “Name something slow” are the shortest and the longest?
- The shortest accepted answer is “Ox” and the longest is “Hawaiian island chain formation”.
- How hard is “Name something slow”?
- Easy. Nearly everyone can name something here, so prompts like this one can appear in the daily iceberg.
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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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