Wildcard trivia
Name something sticky
Everyone has a first answer to “Name something sticky”. The game is about the second, the third and the tenth: 163 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.
- Glue
- Honey
- Tape
- Gum
- Syrup
The next answers people reach for
A step further down, worth 25 points each:
- Jam
- Toffee
- Post-it note
- Stickers
- Plaster
- Candy floss
- Lollipop
- Marshmallow
- Peanut butter
- Nutella
- Sap
- Slime
- Spider web
- Mud
- Glue stick
- Superglue
- Duct tape
- Velcro
- Blu Tack
- Treacle
- Honeycomb
- Rice
- Toffee apple
- Sticky toffee pudding
- Ice lolly
- Melted ice cream
- Cinnamon roll
- Chelsea bun
How deep does “Name something sticky” go?
- The Tip5 answers · 10 ptsGlue · Honey · Tape
- Below the Surface28 answers · 25 ptsJam · Toffee · Post-it note …
- The Deep65 answers · 50 ptsHidden until you play
- The Abyss64 answers · 85 ptsHidden until you play
- Below the Iceberg1 answer · 100 ptsOne legendary answer, waiting in the game
The Deep holds 65 answers starting with A, B, C, D, E, F, G, H, J, K, L, M, N, O, P, R, S, T, V and W. The Abyss has 64 more, and one legendary answer waits below them all.
Inside the answer list
- 163 answers in total, 74 of them longer than one word.
- Shortest: “Gak”. Longest: “Sticky toffee pudding”.
- S, C and B are the most common first letters; together they start 34% of the answers.
- 84 answers can be typed more than one way: “Candy apple” counts as Toffee apple.
Getting below the surface
- Start with S: 30 of the answers begin with it.
- Glue, Honey and Tape 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 sticky”?
- The usual first answers are Glue, Honey, Tape, Gum and Syrup. In Icillion they are worth 10 points each, the least of any level.
- How many answers are there to “Name something sticky”?
- 163 in all: 5 on The Tip, 28 Below the Surface, 65 in The Deep, 64 in The Abyss, and a single legendary answer Below the Iceberg.
- Which answers to “Name something sticky” are the shortest and the longest?
- The shortest accepted answer is “Gak” and the longest is “Sticky toffee pudding”.
- How hard is “Name something sticky”?
- 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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