Wildcard trivia
Name something you can strike
Can you get past the obvious ones? Icillion accepts 84 answers to “Name something you can strike”, and only 7 of them float on the tip of the iceberg.
What everyone says first
Right, but shallow: 7 answers nearly everyone thinks of, worth 10 points each.
- Match
- Deal
- Pose
- Balance
- Gold
- Chord
- Bell
Just below the surface
Second thoughts land here, at 25 points:
- Clock
- Lightning
- Coin
- Bargain
- Out
- Camp
- Tent
- Flag
- Colours
- Sail
- Set
- Pot
- Ball
- Bowling pin
- Target
- Enemy
- Fear
- Terror
- Hammer
- Anvil
- Drum
- Gong
- Cymbal
- Triangle
- Tuning fork
- Piano key
- Note
- Tone
- Match box
- Flint
- Spark
- Fire
- Light
- Lamp
- Candle
- Torch
- Mine
- Rich
- Lucky
- It lucky
- It rich
- Lucky strike
- Pose for photo
- Photo
- Selfie
- Attitude
- Fear into hearts
- Note of caution
- Balance between
- Deal with
- Down
- Back
- Dumb
- Off
- Through
- Up
How the answers sink
- The Tip7 answers · 10 ptsMatch · Deal · Pose
- Below the Surface56 answers · 25 ptsClock · Lightning · Coin …
- The Deep8 answers · 50 ptsHidden until you play
- The Abyss12 answers · 85 ptsHidden until you play
- Below the Iceberg1 answer · 100 ptsOne legendary answer, waiting in the game
The Deep holds 8 answers starting with A, B, G, H, L, R and T. The Abyss has 12 more, and one legendary answer waits below them all.
Inside the answer list
- 84 answers in total, 28 of them longer than one word.
- Shortest: “Up”. Longest: “Commemorative medal”.
- C, B and T are the most common first letters; together they start 36% of the answers.
- 5 answers can be typed more than one way: “Off-center strike” counts as Off-centre strike.
How to go deeper
- More answers begin with C than with any other letter (11). Run through it first.
- Skip Match, Deal and Pose; everybody says 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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People also ask
- What are the most common answers to “Name something you can strike”?
- Most people start with Match, Deal, Pose, Balance and Gold. In Icillion they are worth 10 points each, the least of any level.
- How many answers does Icillion accept for “Name something you can strike”?
- 84 in all: 7 on The Tip, 56 Below the Surface, 8 in The Deep, 12 in The Abyss, and a single legendary answer Below the Iceberg.
- What is the shortest answer to “Name something you can strike”?
- The shortest accepted answer is “Up” and the longest is “Commemorative medal”.
- Is “Name something you can strike” an easy or a hard prompt?
- Easy. Nearly everyone can name something here, so prompts like this one can appear in the daily iceberg.
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