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🎬 Movies prompt

Name a movie set in New York City

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 Noillirk100Do the Right Thing, Taxi Driver
Deep Cut85King Kong, Men in Black
Rare60Night at the Museum, The Devil Wears Prada
Schooler30I Am Legend, Enchanted
Too Clever15Ghostbusters
Plankton10Spider-Man, Home Alone 2

How the crowd plays it

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

Real depth starts at "King Kong" (Deep Cut, 85) — an answer you have to actually know, not just prefer. And at the bottom of the ladder sits "Do the Right Thing", 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 movies, that means remembering that run the film backwards: start from the end credits. The composer, the cinematographer, the forgotten co-star — the mirror side of a famous film is full of answers the front side never shows.

This prompt appears in the daily rotation, in Unlimited mode and — drilled on its own category — in the Movies pack. Its full answer bank is also published whenever its day closes, in the archive.

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