🪞 NOILLIRK

🎻 Music prompt

Name a famous orchestra

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 Noillirk100Berlin Philharmonic, Chicago Symphony Orchestra
Deep Cut85Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra, Boston Symphony Orchestra
Rare60London Symphony Orchestra, Los Angeles Philharmonic
Schooler30Philadelphia Orchestra, London Philharmonic
Too Clever15New York Philharmonic, San Francisco Symphony
Plankton10Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra, Cleveland Orchestra

How the crowd plays it

"Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra" is what this prompt harvests from almost everyone — that reliability is what makes rarity measurable. Even "New York Philharmonic", 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 "Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra" (85). Rarer still is "Berlin Philharmonic", 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.

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