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🎬 Movies prompt

Name a Christmas movie

One of 302 questions in the Noillirk bank — and a complete little map of how the crowd thinks. Here is every tier of answer this prompt holds, from the first instinct to the gem.

The answers, by rarity

TierPointsBanked answers
One in a Noillirk100Love Actually, The Polar Express
Deep Cut85The Santa Clause, A Christmas Carol
Rare60National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation, Miracle on 34th Street
Schooler30The Grinch, Elf
Too Clever15Home Alone 2: Lost in New York
Plankton10Home Alone

How the crowd plays it

The crowd's reflex here is "Home Alone" — correct, instant, and worth a Plankton 10. The second reflex, "Home Alone 2: Lost in New York", belongs to the Too Clever tier: it sounds like a deep cut and lands like a cliché, because every confident player reaches for it in the same second.

Swim past the school and the ladder thins out fast: "The Santa Clause" earns a Deep Cut 85, the mark of a player who reads second pages. The trench floor of this prompt is "Love Actually" — one banked answer, 100 points, no company.

Playing this prompt backwards

When this question surfaces in a dive, your 25 seconds are best spent in reverse: first, name the Plankton answer silently and let it go; second, refuse the Too Clever answer unless the clock is dying; third, search your second page — the runner-up, the older one, the one from the smaller place. In movies, that means remembering that run the film backwards: start from the end credits. The composer, the cinematographer, the forgotten co-star — the mirror side of a famous film is full of answers the front side never shows.

This prompt appears in the daily rotation, in Unlimited mode and — drilled on its own category — in the Movies pack. Its full answer bank is also published whenever its day closes, in the archive.

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