Words trivia
Name a punctuation mark or typographic symbol
“Name a punctuation mark or typographic symbol” is one of 22 words prompts in Icillion. Of its 64 accepted answers, 10 are the ones nearly everyone says first; the rest sink deeper the rarer they are.
The tip of the iceberg
Say one of these and you stay near the surface, with 10 points.
- Full stop
- Comma
- Question mark
- Exclamation mark
- Apostrophe
- Colon
- Semicolon
- Hyphen
- Dash
- Brackets
One step down
Second thoughts land here, at 25 points:
- Quotation marks
- Ellipsis
- Slash
- Backslash
- Asterisk
- Ampersand
- At sign
- Hash
- Tilde
- Caret
- Underscore
- Pipe
Answers by level
- The Tip10 answers · 10 ptsFull stop · Comma · Question mark
- Below the Surface12 answers · 25 ptsQuotation marks · Ellipsis · Slash …
- The Deep29 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 29 answers starting with A, B, C, D, E, G, I, M, O, P, R, S, T and U. The Abyss has 12 more, and one legendary answer waits below them all.
By the numbers
- 64 answers in total, 25 of them longer than one word.
- Shortest: “Dash”. Longest: “Pound sterling sign”.
- C, D and A are the most common first letters; together they start 34% of the answers.
- 22 answers can be typed more than one way: “Obelisk” counts as Dagger.
Tips for a rarer answer
- Start with C: 8 of the answers begin with it.
- Full stop, Comma and Question mark are safe but shallow. Aim past them.
- Think long: long words often hide the pattern you need, like the five vowels of “education” or “unquestionably”.
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People also ask
- What do most people say for “Name a punctuation mark or typographic symbol”?
- The usual first answers are Full stop, Comma, Question mark, Exclamation mark and Apostrophe. In Icillion they are worth 10 points each, the least of any level.
- How many answers are there to “Name a punctuation mark or typographic symbol”?
- 64 in all: 10 on The Tip, 12 Below the Surface, 29 in The Deep, 12 in The Abyss, and a single legendary answer Below the Iceberg.
- Which answers to “Name a punctuation mark or typographic symbol” are the shortest and the longest?
- The shortest accepted answer is “Dash” and the longest is “Pound sterling sign”.
- How hard is “Name a punctuation mark or typographic symbol”?
- Easy. Nearly everyone can name something here, so prompts like this one can appear in the daily iceberg.
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