🪞 NOILLIRK

🎻 Music prompt

Name a reggae artist

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 Noillirk100Toots Hibbert, Desmond Dekker
Deep Cut85Jimmy Cliff, Peter Tosh
Rare60Burning Spear, Dennis Brown
Schooler30Ziggy Marley, Buju Banton
Too Clever15Damian Marley, Shaggy
Plankton10Bob Marley, Sean Paul

How the crowd plays it

The crowd's reflex here is "Bob Marley" — correct, instant, and worth a Plankton 10. The second reflex, "Damian Marley", belongs to the Too Clever tier: it sounds like a deep cut and lands like a cliché, because every confident player reaches for it in the same second.

Swim past the school and the ladder thins out fast: "Jimmy Cliff" earns a Deep Cut 85, the mark of a player who reads second pages. The trench floor of this prompt is "Toots Hibbert" — one banked answer, 100 points, no company.

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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