Name a famous physicist

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25-second pick · +85

Abdus Salam Deep Cut

10 letters · 2 words · ~3s to type · 109 accepted answers on the sheet

If the first word feels too easy, it probably scores 10. We would type Abdus Salam: Deep Cut, +85, 10 letters, about 3 seconds on a keyboard. Do not burn the 25 seconds on Albert Einstein, Isaac Newton, Robert Oppenheimer, or Stephen Hawking — those are Plankton. The trench answer is Henry Cavendish (+100), but only take it if you can spell it cold.

Trench spelling, only if you already know it: Henry Cavendish +100

Skip Albert Einstein · Isaac Newton · Robert Oppenheimer · Stephen Hawking

Hints

Hint 1. 109 accepted answers. A strong pick is a two-or-more-word phrase, about 10 letters.

Hint 2 — a solid, typeable answer

Georg Ohm

Hint 3 — a rare answer

Abdus Salam · 85 pts

Best safe pick
Abdus Salam Deep Cut 85 pts

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

Best rare answers

  • Abdus Salam 85 pts · Deep Cut
  • Andrea Ghez 85 pts · Deep Cut
  • Ernst Mach 85 pts · Deep Cut
  • Hans Bethe 85 pts · Deep Cut
  • Leo Szilard 85 pts · Deep Cut
  • Lev Landau 85 pts · Deep Cut
  • Max Born 85 pts · Deep Cut
  • Henry Cavendish 100 pts · One in a Krillion

Strong alternatives

  • Georg Ohm 60 pts
  • Kip Thorne 60 pts
  • Paul Dirac 60 pts
  • Tycho Brahe 60 pts
  • Vera Rubin 60 pts
  • C. V. Raman 60 pts
  • J. J. Thomson 60 pts
  • Blaise Pascal 60 pts

Avoid — Plankton

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

  • Albert Einstein 10
  • Isaac Newton 10
  • Robert Oppenheimer 10
  • Stephen Hawking 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 physicist

● One in a Krillion · 2 ● Deep Cut · 53 ● Rare · 30 ● Schooler · 18 ● Too Clever · 2 ● Plankton · 4
One in a Krillion +100 2 answers — tap to reveal
  • Henry Cavendish +100
  • Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar +100
Deep Cut +85 53 answers — tap to reveal
  • Abdus Salam +85
  • Albert Michelson +85
  • Andrea Ghez +85
  • Andrei Sakharov +85
  • Arno Penzias +85
  • Arthur Compton +85
  • Arthur Eddington +85
  • Augustin-Jean Fresnel +85
  • Barry Barish +85
  • Brian Josephson +85
  • Carl David Anderson +85
  • Charles-Augustin de Coulomb +85
  • Chen-Ning Yang +85
  • Chien-Shiung Wu +85
  • Donna Strickland +85
  • Edward Witten +85
  • Émilie du Châtelet +85
  • Emmy Noether +85
  • Ernst Mach +85
  • François Englert +85
  • Frank Wilczek +85
  • Freeman Dyson +85
  • Fritz Zwicky +85
  • Georges Lemaître +85
  • Hans Bethe +85
  • Hendrik Lorentz +85
  • Henri Poincaré +85
  • Hideki Yukawa +85
  • Ibn al-Haytham +85
  • James Chadwick +85
  • Jocelyn Bell Burnell +85
  • John Bardeen +85
  • John Stewart Bell +85
  • John Wheeler +85
  • Josiah Willard Gibbs +85
  • Leo Szilard +85
  • Léon Foucault +85
  • Leon Lederman +85
  • Leonard Susskind +85
  • Lev Landau +85
  • Lise Meitner +85
  • Maria Goeppert Mayer +85
  • Max Born +85
  • Pyotr Kapitsa +85
  • Rainer Weiss +85
  • Robert Millikan +85
  • Satyendra Nath Bose +85
  • Sheldon Glashow +85
  • Sin-Itiro Tomonaga +85
  • Steven Weinberg +85
  • Thomas Young +85
  • Tsung-Dao Lee +85
  • William Shockley +85
Rare +60 30 answers — tap to reveal
  • Alessandro Volta +60
  • André-Marie Ampère +60
  • Benjamin Franklin +60
  • Blaise Pascal +60
  • Brian Greene +60
  • C. V. Raman +60
  • Christiaan Huygens +60
  • Christian Doppler +60
  • Edward Teller +60
  • Enrico Fermi +60
  • Erwin Schrodinger +60
  • Georg Ohm +60
  • Heinrich Hertz +60
  • Henri Becquerel +60
  • J. J. Thomson +60
  • James Clerk Maxwell +60
  • James Prescott Joule +60
  • Kip Thorne +60
  • Louis de Broglie +60
  • Ludwig Boltzmann +60
  • Michael Faraday +60
  • Murray Gell-Mann +60
  • Paul Dirac +60
  • Robert Hooke +60
  • Roger Penrose +60
  • Rosalind Franklin +60
  • Tycho Brahe +60
  • Vera Rubin +60
  • Wilhelm Röntgen +60
  • Wolfgang Pauli +60
Schooler +30 18 answers — tap to reveal
  • Archimedes +30
  • Brian Cox +30
  • Carl Sagan +30
  • Edwin Hubble +30
  • Ernest Rutherford +30
  • Galileo Galilei +30
  • Johannes Kepler +30
  • Lord Kelvin +30
  • Marie Curie +30
  • Max Planck +30
  • Nicolaus Copernicus +30
  • Niels Bohr +30
  • Nikola Tesla +30
  • Peter Higgs +30
  • Pierre Curie +30
  • Richard Feynman +30
  • Sally Ride +30
  • Werner Heisenberg +30
Too Clever +15 2 answers — tap to reveal
  • Michio Kaku +15
  • Neil deGrasse Tyson +15
Plankton +10 4 answers — tap to reveal
  • Albert Einstein +10
  • Isaac Newton +10
  • Robert Oppenheimer +10
  • Stephen Hawking +10