Wildcard trivia
Name something sour
“Name something sour” 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.
- Lemon
- Lime
- Vinegar
- Sour sweets
- Grapefruit
- Unripe fruit
- Sour cream
One step down
Second thoughts land here, at 25 points:
- Green apple
- Rhubarb
- Cranberry
- Sauerkraut
- Pickle
- Yoghurt
- Buttermilk
- Kefir
- Sourdough
- Tamarind
- Sour cherry
- Gooseberry
- Redcurrant
- Blackcurrant
- Kiwi
- Pineapple
- Passion fruit
- Sorrel
- Wood sorrel
- Citric acid
- Lemonade
- Lemon curd
- Sherbet
- Sour Patch Kids
- Warheads
- Tangfastics
- Salt and vinegar crisps
- Sour milk
- Kimchi
- Lemon drop
- Pickled onion
- Capers
- Olives
- Cider
- Sour beer
- Gose
- Lambic
- Berliner Weisse
- Kombucha
Answers by level
- The Tip7 answers · 10 ptsLemon · Lime · Vinegar
- Below the Surface39 answers · 25 ptsGreen apple · Rhubarb · Cranberry …
- The Deep55 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 55 answers starting with A, B, C, D, E, F, G, H, K, L, M, P, Q, R, S, T, U, V, W and Y. The Abyss has 21 more, and one legendary answer waits below them all.
Inside the answer list
- 123 answers in total, 51 of them longer than one word.
- Shortest: “Borș”. Longest: “Salt and vinegar crisps”.
- S, C and B are the most common first letters; together they start 37% of the answers.
- 16 answers can be typed more than one way: “Yogurt” counts as Yoghurt.
Getting below the surface
- Start with S: 25 of the answers begin with it.
- Lemon, Lime and Vinegar 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 sour”?
- The usual first answers are Lemon, Lime, Vinegar, Sour sweets and Grapefruit. In Icillion they are worth 10 points each, the least of any level.
- How many answers are there to “Name something sour”?
- 123 in all: 7 on The Tip, 39 Below the Surface, 55 in The Deep, 21 in The Abyss, and a single legendary answer Below the Iceberg.
- Which answers to “Name something sour” are the shortest and the longest?
- The shortest accepted answer is “Borș” and the longest is “Salt and vinegar crisps”.
- How hard is “Name something sour”?
- 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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