Name a famous classical composer

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25-second pick · +100

Gesualdo One in a Krillion

8 letters · 1 word · ~2s to type · 118 accepted answers on the sheet

If the first word feels too easy, it probably scores 10. We would type Gesualdo: One in a Krillion, +100, 8 letters, about 2 seconds on a keyboard. Do not burn the 25 seconds on Bach, Beethoven, or Mozart — those are Plankton. It is also the One in a Krillion on this sheet, so the rare pick and the typeable pick are the same.

Skip Bach · Beethoven · Mozart

Hints

Hint 1. 118 accepted answers. A strong pick is a single word, about 8 letters.

Hint 2 — a solid, typeable answer

Barber

Hint 3 — a rare answer

Gesualdo · 100 pts

Best safe pick
Gesualdo One in a Krillion 100 pts

Ranked by rarity × how easy it is to type in 25 seconds. Too Clever answers are treated as risky.

Best rare answers

  • Gesualdo 100 pts · One in a Krillion
  • Albeniz 85 pts · Deep Cut
  • Albinoni 85 pts · Deep Cut
  • Bellini 85 pts · Deep Cut
  • Berg 85 pts · Deep Cut
  • Boccherini 85 pts · Deep Cut
  • Borodin 85 pts · Deep Cut
  • Boulanger 85 pts · Deep Cut

Strong alternatives

  • Barber 60 pts
  • Bartok 60 pts
  • Berlioz 60 pts
  • Bernstein 60 pts
  • Bizet 60 pts
  • Britten 60 pts
  • Cage 60 pts
  • Copland 60 pts

Avoid — Plankton

Everyone else will type these. Ten points is a surface skim.

  • Bach 10
  • Beethoven 10
  • Mozart 10

Public accepted list

Same buckets the game published. We do not re-grade. The pick above is the plan; this block is the record.

Prompt 1 of 1

Name a famous classical composer

● One in a Krillion · 2 ● Deep Cut · 63 ● Rare · 39 ● Schooler · 9 ● Too Clever · 2 ● Plankton · 3
One in a Krillion +100 2 answers — tap to reveal
  • Gesualdo +100
  • Hildegard von Bingen +100
Deep Cut +85 63 answers — tap to reveal
  • Albeniz +85
  • Albinoni +85
  • Amy Beach +85
  • Bellini +85
  • Berg +85
  • Boccherini +85
  • Borodin +85
  • Boulanger +85
  • Bruch +85
  • Bruckner +85
  • Buxtehude +85
  • Byrd +85
  • Clementi +85
  • Corelli +85
  • Couperin +85
  • CPE Bach +85
  • Czerny +85
  • de Falla +85
  • Delibes +85
  • Donizetti +85
  • Dowland +85
  • Fanny Mendelssohn +85
  • Faure +85
  • Florence Price +85
  • Franck +85
  • Glinka +85
  • Gluck +85
  • Gorecki +85
  • Gounod +85
  • Granados +85
  • Hindemith +85
  • Hummel +85
  • Ives +85
  • Janacek +85
  • John Adams +85
  • Kodaly +85
  • Ligeti +85
  • Lully +85
  • Massenet +85
  • Messiaen +85
  • Milhaud +85
  • Monteverdi +85
  • Nielsen +85
  • Offenbach +85
  • Palestrina +85
  • Penderecki +85
  • Piazzolla +85
  • Poulenc +85
  • Purcell +85
  • Rameau +85
  • Reich +85
  • Rodrigo +85
  • Scarlatti +85
  • Scott Joplin +85
  • Scriabin +85
  • Smetana +85
  • Sousa +85
  • Stockhausen +85
  • Tallis +85
  • Telemann +85
  • Villa-Lobos +85
  • Weber +85
  • Webern +85
Rare +60 39 answers — tap to reveal
  • Arvo Part +60
  • Barber +60
  • Bartok +60
  • Berlioz +60
  • Bernstein +60
  • Bizet +60
  • Britten +60
  • Cage +60
  • Clara Schumann +60
  • Copland +60
  • Dvorak +60
  • Elgar +60
  • Gershwin +60
  • Grieg +60
  • Johann Strauss II +60
  • John Williams +60
  • Liszt +60
  • Mahler +60
  • Mendelssohn +60
  • Mussorgsky +60
  • Paganini +60
  • Philip Glass +60
  • Prokofiev +60
  • Puccini +60
  • Rachmaninoff +60
  • Ravel +60
  • Richard Strauss +60
  • Rimsky-Korsakov +60
  • Rossini +60
  • Saint-Saens +60
  • Salieri +60
  • Satie +60
  • Schoenberg +60
  • Schumann +60
  • Shostakovich +60
  • Sibelius +60
  • Stravinsky +60
  • Vaughan Williams +60
  • Verdi +60
Schooler +30 9 answers — tap to reveal
  • Brahms +30
  • Chopin +30
  • Debussy +30
  • Handel +30
  • Haydn +30
  • Schubert +30
  • Tchaikovsky +30
  • Vivaldi +30
  • Wagner +30
Too Clever +15 2 answers — tap to reveal
  • Holst +15
  • Pachelbel +15
Plankton +10 3 answers — tap to reveal
  • Bach +10
  • Beethoven +10
  • Mozart +10