About the Science water
Science prompts reward the reader, not the crammer. Everyone retains the headline facts from school; the bank's deep tiers hold the second-order knowledge — the uncommon element, the forgotten unit, the scientist who published second. It is the hardest pack to fake and the most satisfying to dive.
The mirror angle
Work the problem backwards, the way real science often happens: start from the phenomenon and reverse-engineer the name. The mirror rewards reasoning, not just recall.
Example ladders
Three real shapes from this pack's bank — the crowd's answer, and the answer that leaves the crowd at the surface:
| Prompt | The crowd (10) | The deep water (85–100) |
|---|---|---|
| Name a chemical element | Oxygen | Ytterbium |
| Name a unit of measurement | Metre | Smoot |
| Name a part of a cell | Nucleus | Golgi apparatus |
Science tips
- The lanthanides and actinides are a Deep Cut neighbourhood — learn three of them.
- SI-adjacent units (ångström, barleycorn, smoot) punch far above their fame.
- Taxonomy is a goldmine: orders and families are rarer than species names.
Every science prompt in the bank
38 prompts — each with its own rarity ladder published:
- Name a planet in our solar system — gem: Eris
- Name a gas in Earth's atmosphere — gem: Neon
- Name a type of rock — gem: Gabbro
- Name a subatomic particle — gem: Tau neutrino
- Name a unit of length — gem: Furlong
- Name a famous physicist — gem: Max Planck
- Name a chemical element — gem: Tungsten
- Name a type of cloud — gem: Mammatus
- Name a part of the human brain — gem: Medulla oblongata
- Name a famous space telescope — gem: Gaia
- Name a type of electromagnetic radiation — gem: Terahertz radiation
- Name a type of volcano — gem: Subglacial volcano
- Name a bone in the human body — gem: Stapes
- Name a vitamin — gem: Biotin
- Name a type of energy — gem: Geothermal energy
- Name a moon of Jupiter — gem: Metis
- Name a type of star — gem: Hypergiant
- Name a natural disaster — gem: Limnic eruption
- Name a type of fossil — gem: Coprolite
- Name a renewable energy source — gem: Tidal energy
- Name a famous inventor — gem: Hedy Lamarr
- Name a sea — gem: Sea of Okhotsk
- Name a galaxy — gem: Large Magellanic Cloud
- Name a branch of biology — gem: Mycology
- Name a famous female scientist — gem: Chien-Shiung Wu
- Name a type of soil — gem: Histosol
- Name a famous mathematician — gem: Srinivasa Ramanujan
- Name a type of telescope — gem: Radio telescope
- Name a precious gemstone — gem: Tanzanite
- Name a type of cell in the human body — gem: Osteocyte
- Name a famous astronomer — gem: Henrietta Swan Leavitt
- Name a type of dinosaur — gem: Parasaurolophus
- Name a type of metal — gem: Titanium
- Name a type of crystal — gem: Beryl
- Name a famous science experiment — gem: Schiehallion experiment
- Name a type of battery — gem: Nickel-cadmium battery
- Name a type of number — gem: Irrational number
- Name a famous science museum — gem: Deutsches Museum Munich