🪞 NOILLIRK

🎻 Music prompt

Name a famous duet

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 Noillirk100Under Pressure, The Boy Is Mine
Deep Cut85Ebony and Ivory, Islands in the Stream
Rare60Endless Love, I Got You Babe
Schooler30A Whole New World, Up Where We Belong
Too Clever15Shallow, Señorita
Plankton10Don't Go Breaking My Heart, Somethin' Stupid

How the crowd plays it

Ask a room of players this question and the first shout is "Don't Go Breaking My Heart". The ones who fancy themselves sharper go for "Shallow" — which is precisely why it only scores 15: in Noillirk, feeling obscure is the most common feeling there is.

Real depth starts at "Ebony and Ivory" (Deep Cut, 85) — an answer you have to actually know, not just prefer. And at the bottom of the ladder sits "Under Pressure", the designated One in a Noillirk: the single answer the bank's research says a room produces once.

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.

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One dive per day, seven prompts, 25 seconds each. The rarer your answer, the deeper you sink — 700 points is a perfect dive.