🪞 NOILLIRK

🏆 Sports prompt

Name a famous surfer

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 Noillirk100Duke Kahanamoku, Tom Curren
Deep Cut85John John Florence, Gabriel Medina
Rare60Stephanie Gilmore, Carissa Moore
Schooler30Mick Fanning, Tyler Wright
Too Clever15Bethany Hamilton
Plankton10Kelly Slater

How the crowd plays it

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

Real depth starts at "John John Florence" (Deep Cut, 85) — an answer you have to actually know, not just prefer. And at the bottom of the ladder sits "Duke Kahanamoku", 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 sports, that means remembering that think of the highlight reel backwards — not the winning goal, but the tournament it came from, the referee, the host city, the losing finalist. Depth in sports is mostly memory of the undercard.

This prompt appears in the daily rotation, in Unlimited mode and — drilled on its own category — in the Sports 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.