Wildcard trivia
Name a superstition
Can you get past the obvious ones? Icillion accepts 49 answers to “Name a superstition”, and only 7 of them float on the tip of the iceberg.
What everyone says first
Say one of these and you stay near the surface, with 10 points.
- Black cat
- Friday the 13th
- Breaking a mirror
- Walking under a ladder
- Knock on wood
- Four-leaf clover
- Lucky number seven
Just below the surface
Second thoughts land here, at 25 points:
- Opening an umbrella indoors
- Spilling salt
- Horseshoe
- Crossing your fingers
- Number 13
- Rabbit's foot
- Wishbone
- Making a wish on a shooting star
- Stepping on a crack
- Beginner's luck
- Blowing out birthday candles
- Bad things come in threes
How the answers sink
- The Tip7 answers · 10 ptsBlack cat · Friday the 13th · Breaking a mirror
- Below the Surface12 answers · 25 ptsOpening an umbrella indoors · Spilling salt · Horseshoe …
- The Deep14 answers · 50 ptsHidden until you play
- The Abyss15 answers · 85 ptsHidden until you play
- Below the Iceberg1 answer · 100 ptsOne legendary answer, waiting in the game
The Deep holds 14 answers starting with B, C, D, E, I, L, M, P, S and T. The Abyss has 15 more, and one legendary answer waits below them all.
By the numbers
- 49 answers in total, 45 of them longer than one word.
- Shortest: “Magpies”. Longest: “Seeing the bride before the wedding”.
- S, B and L are the most common first letters; together they start 37% of the answers.
- 41 answers can be typed more than one way: “Shooting star” counts as Making a wish on a shooting star.
Getting below the surface
- More answers begin with S than with any other letter (8). Run through it first.
- Skip Black cat, Friday the 13th and Breaking a mirror; everybody says them.
- Change category: if everyone names food, name a planet, a film character or a flag.
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Quick answers
- What are the most common answers to “Name a superstition”?
- Most people start with Black cat, Friday the 13th, Breaking a mirror, Walking under a ladder and Knock on wood. In Icillion they are worth 10 points each, the least of any level.
- How many answers does Icillion accept for “Name a superstition”?
- 49 in all: 7 on The Tip, 12 Below the Surface, 14 in The Deep, 15 in The Abyss, and a single legendary answer Below the Iceberg.
- What is the shortest answer to “Name a superstition”?
- The shortest accepted answer is “Magpies” and the longest is “Seeing the bride before the wedding”.
- Is “Name a superstition” 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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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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