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🔬 Science prompt

Name a galaxy

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 Noillirk100Large Magellanic Cloud, Small Magellanic Cloud
Deep Cut85Triangulum Galaxy, Sombrero Galaxy
Rare60Whirlpool Galaxy, Pinwheel Galaxy
Schooler30Centaurus A, Bode's Galaxy
Too Clever15Andromeda Galaxy, Milky Way Galaxy
Plankton10The Milky Way, The Andromeda Galaxy

How the crowd plays it

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

Real depth starts at "Triangulum Galaxy" (Deep Cut, 85) — an answer you have to actually know, not just prefer. And at the bottom of the ladder sits "Large Magellanic Cloud", 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 science, that means remembering that work the problem backwards, the way real science often happens: start from the phenomenon and reverse-engineer the name. The mirror rewards reasoning, not just recall.

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