The answers, by rarity
| Tier | Points | Banked answers |
|---|---|---|
| One in a Noillirk | 100 | Westlife, Take That |
| Deep Cut | 85 | Boyz II Men, New Edition |
| Rare | 60 | NSYNC, Jonas Brothers |
| Schooler | 30 | 5 Seconds of Summer, Why Don't We |
| Too Clever | 15 | New Kids on the Block, Backstreet Boys |
| Plankton | 10 | One Direction, BTS |
How the crowd plays it
"One Direction" is what this prompt harvests from almost everyone — that reliability is what makes rarity measurable. Even "New Kids on the Block", the connoisseur's decoy, is banked at just 15 points: the mirror has seen it a thousand times.
The deep water of this prompt belongs to answers like "Boyz II Men" (85). Rarer still is "Westlife", the One in a Noillirk gem: find it under a 25-second clock and a single prompt has carried you a full kilometre down.
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 music, that means remembering that play the record backwards — literally the oldest trick in music. B-sides, deep cuts (the tier is named for them), and the instruments behind the singer: the mirror side of music is where the points are.
This prompt appears in the daily rotation, in Unlimited mode and — drilled on its own category — in the Music pack. Its full answer bank is also published whenever its day closes, in the archive.