The answers, by rarity
| Tier | Points | Banked answers |
|---|---|---|
| One in a Noillirk | 100 | Sui Dynasty, Northern Wei |
| Deep Cut | 85 | Yuan Dynasty, Jin Dynasty |
| Rare | 60 | Qin Dynasty, Han Dynasty |
| Schooler | 30 | Tang Dynasty, Song Dynasty |
| Too Clever | 15 | Shang Dynasty, Zhou Dynasty |
| Plankton | 10 | Ming Dynasty, Qing Dynasty |
How the crowd plays it
The crowd's reflex here is "Ming Dynasty" — correct, instant, and worth a Plankton 10. The second reflex, "Shang Dynasty", 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: "Yuan Dynasty" earns a Deep Cut 85, the mark of a player who reads second pages. The trench floor of this prompt is "Sui Dynasty" — 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 history, that means remembering that history is written by the winners; the mirror shows the other archive. Ask who lost, who was second, what it was called before — the reversed questions produce the rare answers.
This prompt appears in the daily rotation, in Unlimited mode and — drilled on its own category — in the History pack. Its full answer bank is also published whenever its day closes, in the archive.