🪞 NOILLIRK

🦑 Animals prompt

Name a type of monkey

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 Noillirk100Proboscis monkey, Gelada
Deep Cut85Mandrill, Drill
Rare60Howler monkey, Spider monkey
Schooler30Capuchin monkey, Macaque
Too Clever15Baboon, Colobus monkey
Plankton10Squirrel monkey, Barbary macaque

How the crowd plays it

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

Real depth starts at "Mandrill" (Deep Cut, 85) — an answer you have to actually know, not just prefer. And at the bottom of the ladder sits "Proboscis monkey", 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 animals, that means remembering that flip the food chain over. The mirror side of the animal kingdom is the bottom: the scavengers, parasites and trench-dwellers that never make the poster. That is exactly where Noillirk points live.

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