Wildcard trivia
Name something that comes in threes
“Name something that comes in threes” is one of 274 wildcard prompts in Icillion. Of its 138 accepted answers, 7 are the ones nearly everyone says first; the rest sink deeper the rarer they are.
The tip of the iceberg
These are the answers most people give first. They count, but they barely move you: 10 points each.
- Three Little Pigs
- Three Blind Mice
- Three Bears
- Three wishes
- Primary colours
- Three Stooges
- Holy Trinity
One step down
A step further down, worth 25 points each:
- Traffic light colours
- Podium
- Medals
- Gold, silver and bronze
- Three Wise Men
- Triplets
- Trio
- Triangle sides
- Hat-trick
- Triathlon
- Tricycle
- Trident
- Trilogy
- Three Billy Goats Gruff
- Three Amigos
- Charlie's Angels
- Powerpuff Girls
- Three Tenors
- Bee Gees
- Stooges
- Three Degrees
- Three Coins in the Fountain
- Three Men in a Boat
- Three Men and a Baby
- Three Colours trilogy
- Blue, White, Red
- French flag colours
- Tricolore
- Italian flag
- Three-legged race
- Three-piece suit
- Three-piece suite
- Three-course meal
- Three strikes
- Three-point shot
- Three-pointer
- Three Rs
- Reading, writing and arithmetic
- Tres leches
- Three Lions
- Third time lucky
- Good things come in threes
Answers by level
- The Tip7 answers · 10 ptsThree Little Pigs · Three Blind Mice · Three Bears
- Below the Surface42 answers · 25 ptsTraffic light colours · Podium · Medals …
- The Deep62 answers · 50 ptsHidden until you play
- The Abyss26 answers · 85 ptsHidden until you play
- Below the Iceberg1 answer · 100 ptsOne legendary answer, waiting in the game
The Deep holds 62 answers starting with A, B, C, F, G, K, L, M, N, O, R, S, T and W. The Abyss has 26 more, and one legendary answer waits below them all.
By the numbers
- 138 answers in total, 112 of them longer than one word.
- Shortest: “CMY”. Longest: “Ghosts of Christmas Past, Present and Future”.
- T, S and C are the most common first letters; together they start 77% of the answers.
- 13 answers can be typed more than one way: “Billy Goats Gruff” counts as Three Billy Goats Gruff.
Tips for a rarer answer
- Start with T: 95 of the answers begin with it.
- Three Little Pigs, Three Blind Mice and Three Bears 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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People also ask
- What do most people say for “Name something that comes in threes”?
- The usual first answers are Three Little Pigs, Three Blind Mice, Three Bears, Three wishes and Primary colours. In Icillion they are worth 10 points each, the least of any level.
- How many answers are there to “Name something that comes in threes”?
- 138 in all: 7 on The Tip, 42 Below the Surface, 62 in The Deep, 26 in The Abyss, and a single legendary answer Below the Iceberg.
- Which answers to “Name something that comes in threes” are the shortest and the longest?
- The shortest accepted answer is “CMY” and the longest is “Ghosts of Christmas Past, Present and Future”.
- How hard is “Name something that comes in threes”?
- Easy. Nearly everyone can name something here, so prompts like this one can appear in the daily iceberg.
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