🪞 NOILLIRK

🏆 Sports prompt

Name an NFL team

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 Noillirk100Jacksonville Jaguars, Carolina Panthers
Deep Cut85Buffalo Bills, Seattle Seahawks
Rare60Denver Broncos, San Francisco 49ers
Schooler30Green Bay Packers, Pittsburgh Steelers
Too Clever15New England Patriots, Kansas City Chiefs
Plankton10Dallas Cowboys

How the crowd plays it

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

Real depth starts at "Buffalo Bills" (Deep Cut, 85) — an answer you have to actually know, not just prefer. And at the bottom of the ladder sits "Jacksonville Jaguars", 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 sports, that means remembering that think of the highlight reel backwards — not the winning goal, but the tournament it came from, the referee, the host city, the losing finalist. Depth in sports is mostly memory of the undercard.

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

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