Science prompt
Name a famous inventor — Best Krillion Answers
Facing “Name a famous inventor” in a dive? Here is how to think rare: the best picks, the safe backups, and the crowd defaults to avoid. Every answer below is real and valid — rarity decides the tier.
Best rare pick: Hedy Lamarr — specific, valid, and uncommon enough for Deep Cut or better.
Avoid (Plankton): Leonardo da Vinci, Wright brothers — correct, but the crowd's first thought.
One in a Krillion — 100 pts
The rarest valid answers — maximum depth.
Hedy Lamarr · Granville Woods
Deep Cut — 85 pts
Extremely rare picks most players miss.
Nikola Tesla · Alexander Graham Bell
Rare — 60 pts
Genuinely uncommon — strong scoring.
George Washington Carver · Eli Whitney
Schooler — 30 pts
Known but not top-of-mind.
James Watt · Samuel Morse
Too Clever — 15 pts
A bit too obvious.
Thomas Edison · Benjamin Franklin
Plankton — 10 pts
The crowd's default — avoid these.
Leonardo da Vinci · Wright brothers
How to play this prompt
Strategy notes specific to “Name a famous inventor” — not generic advice.
Most players know the famous examples. The depth is in the specific names, elements, and phenomena beyond the textbook highlights.
The winning instinct on this one: skip your first thought entirely and type your second. Hedy Lamarr is a perfect example — completely valid, just not the reflex answer. Nikola Tesla plays the same role as a backup.
Watch out for Leonardo da Vinci. It's valid, but validity isn't the game — rarity is. Wright brothers has the same problem: everyone knows it, so everyone types it, so it scores like everyone.
Notice how George Washington Carver (Rare) outscores Leonardo da Vinci (Plankton) without being obscure at all. Rarity isn't about difficulty — it's about what the crowd overlooks.
Build yourself a mental shelf for this prompt: Alexander Graham Bell, Eli Whitney, Nikola Tesla. They're different answers, same rarity neighborhood — and that neighborhood is where dives are won.
Rated 4/5 difficulty — only 12 banked answers, so matching the bank is genuinely hard. Precision matters more than speed here.
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