Science prompt
Name a famous physicist — Best Krillion Answers
Facing “Name a famous physicist” 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: Max Planck — specific, valid, and uncommon enough for Deep Cut or better.
Avoid (Plankton): Albert Einstein, Nikola Tesla — correct, but the crowd's first thought.
One in a Krillion — 100 pts
The rarest valid answers — maximum depth.
Max Planck · Niels Bohr
Deep Cut — 85 pts
Extremely rare picks most players miss.
Richard Feynman · Erwin Schrodinger
Rare — 60 pts
Genuinely uncommon — strong scoring.
Werner Heisenberg · Marie Curie
Schooler — 30 pts
Known but not top-of-mind.
Galileo Galilei · Michael Faraday
Too Clever — 15 pts
A bit too obvious.
Stephen Hawking · Isaac Newton
Plankton — 10 pts
The crowd's default — avoid these.
Albert Einstein · Nikola Tesla
How to play this prompt
Strategy notes specific to “Name a famous physicist” — not generic advice.
Most players know the famous examples. The depth is in the specific names, elements, and phenomena beyond the textbook highlights.
Lead with Max Planck. It's the kind of answer that makes other players say 'I knew that!' after the reveal — which is exactly why they didn't type it. Richard Feynman works the same way if you want a second bullet in the chamber.
The trap is Albert Einstein — correct, but it's the reflex answer for a reason: it's the first thing the category suggests. Nikola Tesla is the same story. Typing either one puts you shoulder-to-shoulder with most of the player base at 10 points.
The middle of the bank tells the real story: Werner Heisenberg lands in Rare while Albert Einstein sits in Plankton — same prompt, wildly different rarity. That gap is exactly where the points hide.
Build yourself a mental shelf for this prompt: Erwin Schrodinger, Marie Curie, Richard Feynman. 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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