The answers, by rarity
| Tier | Points | Banked answers |
|---|---|---|
| One in a Noillirk | 100 | Erhu, Viola da gamba |
| Deep Cut | 85 | Double bass, Sitar |
| Rare | 60 | Cello, Viola |
| Schooler | 30 | Harp, Banjo |
| Too Clever | 15 | Mandolin, Ukulele |
| Plankton | 10 | Violin, Guitar |
How the crowd plays it
The crowd's reflex here is "Violin" — correct, instant, and worth a Plankton 10. The second reflex, "Mandolin", 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: "Double bass" earns a Deep Cut 85, the mark of a player who reads second pages. The trench floor of this prompt is "Erhu" — 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.