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🏛️ History prompt

Name a famous shipwreck

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 Noillirk100Vasa, Antikythera shipwreck
Deep Cut85Mary Rose, Endurance
Rare60USS Arizona, Andrea Doria
Schooler30Lusitania, Bismarck
Too Clever15Britannic, Edmund Fitzgerald
Plankton10Titanic, Costa Concordia

How the crowd plays it

Ask a room of players this question and the first shout is "Titanic". The ones who fancy themselves sharper go for "Britannic" — which is precisely why it only scores 15: in Noillirk, feeling obscure is the most common feeling there is.

Real depth starts at "Mary Rose" (Deep Cut, 85) — an answer you have to actually know, not just prefer. And at the bottom of the ladder sits "Vasa", 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 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.

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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.