Wildcard trivia
Name something square
Everyone has a first answer to “Name something square”. The game is about the second, the third and the tenth: 119 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.
- Window
- Chessboard
- Box
- Dice
- Post-it note
- Tile
- Napkin
The next answers people reach for
A step further down, worth 25 points each:
- Door
- Book
- Brick
- Television
- Phone
- Pizza box
- Tetris block
- Minecraft block
- SpongeBob SquarePants
- Lego brick
- Rubik's Cube
- Waffle
- Ravioli
- Postage stamp
- Polaroid
- Picture frame
- Canvas
- Handkerchief
- Bandana
- Origami paper
- Sudoku grid
- Crossword
- Bingo card
- Checkerboard
- Boxing ring
- Town square
- Times Square
- Red Square
- Trafalgar Square
- Piazza
- Courtyard
- Sugar cube
- Ice cube
- Stock cube
- Cushion
- Pillow
- Lunchbox
- Sandwich
- Slice of bread
- Cracker
- Swiss flag
- QR code
- Pixel
- Floppy disk
- Coaster
- Beer mat
- Square dance
- Square meal
How deep does “Name something square” go?
- The Tip7 answers · 10 ptsWindow · Chessboard · Box
- Below the Surface48 answers · 25 ptsDoor · Book · Brick …
- The Deep47 answers · 50 ptsHidden until you play
- The Abyss16 answers · 85 ptsHidden until you play
- Below the Iceberg1 answer · 100 ptsOne legendary answer, waiting in the game
The Deep holds 47 answers starting with A, B, C, F, G, H, I, J, L, M, N, P, Q, R, S, T, W and Z. The Abyss has 16 more, and one legendary answer waits below them all.
By the numbers
- 119 answers in total, 79 of them longer than one word.
- Shortest: “Box”. Longest: “Noughts and crosses grid”.
- S, C and P are the most common first letters; together they start 40% of the answers.
- 26 answers can be typed more than one way: “Malevich's Black Square” counts as Black Square.
Tips for a rarer answer
- Start with S: 20 of the answers begin with it.
- Window, Chessboard and Box 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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Questions about this prompt
- What do most people say for “Name something square”?
- The usual first answers are Window, Chessboard, Box, Dice and Post-it note. In Icillion they are worth 10 points each, the least of any level.
- How many answers are there to “Name something square”?
- 119 in all: 7 on The Tip, 48 Below the Surface, 47 in The Deep, 16 in The Abyss, and a single legendary answer Below the Iceberg.
- Which answers to “Name something square” are the shortest and the longest?
- The shortest accepted answer is “Box” and the longest is “Noughts and crosses grid”.
- How hard is “Name something square”?
- Easy. Nearly everyone can name something here, so prompts like this one can appear in the daily iceberg.
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