Name a famous poet

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25-second pick · +100

Enheduanna One in a Krillion

10 letters · 1 word · ~2s to type · 104 accepted answers on the sheet

If the first word feels too easy, it probably scores 10. We would type Enheduanna: One in a Krillion, +100, 10 letters, about 2 seconds on a keyboard. Do not burn the 25 seconds on Edgar Allan Poe, Emily Dickinson, Maya Angelou, or Robert Frost — 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 Edgar Allan Poe · Emily Dickinson · Maya Angelou · Robert Frost

Hints

Hint 1. 104 accepted answers. A strong pick is a single word, about 10 letters.

Hint 2 — a solid, typeable answer

Goethe

Hint 3 — a rare answer

Enheduanna · 100 pts

Best safe pick
Enheduanna 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

  • Enheduanna 100 pts · One in a Krillion
  • Catullus 85 pts · Deep Cut
  • Hafiz 85 pts · Deep Cut
  • Horace 85 pts · Deep Cut
  • Ovid 85 pts · Deep Cut
  • Petrarch 85 pts · Deep Cut
  • Virgil 85 pts · Deep Cut
  • Anne Sexton 85 pts · Deep Cut

Strong alternatives

  • Goethe 60 pts
  • Sappho 60 pts
  • Ezra Pound 60 pts
  • Ogden Nash 60 pts
  • Oscar Wilde 60 pts
  • E.E. Cummings 60 pts
  • Alfred Tennyson 60 pts
  • Allen Ginsberg 60 pts

Avoid — Plankton

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

  • Edgar Allan Poe 10
  • Emily Dickinson 10
  • Maya Angelou 10
  • Robert Frost 10
  • William Shakespeare 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 poet

● One in a Krillion · 1 ● Deep Cut · 56 ● Rare · 26 ● Schooler · 13 ● Too Clever · 3 ● Plankton · 5
One in a Krillion +100 1 answer — tap to reveal
  • Enheduanna +100
Deep Cut +85 56 answers — tap to reveal
  • A.E. Housman +85
  • Adrienne Rich +85
  • Alexander Pope +85
  • Alexander Pushkin +85
  • Anna Akhmatova +85
  • Anne Sexton +85
  • Arthur Rimbaud +85
  • Billy Collins +85
  • Carl Sandburg +85
  • Carol Ann Duffy +85
  • Catullus +85
  • Charles Baudelaire +85
  • Christina Rossetti +85
  • Derek Walcott +85
  • Du Fu +85
  • Edna St. Vincent Millay +85
  • Edward Lear +85
  • Elizabeth Bishop +85
  • Federico Garcia Lorca +85
  • Gerard Manley Hopkins +85
  • Gwendolyn Brooks +85
  • Hafiz +85
  • Horace +85
  • John Betjeman +85
  • John Donne +85
  • Joy Harjo +85
  • Leonard Cohen +85
  • Lewis Carroll +85
  • Li Bai +85
  • Louise Glück +85
  • Marianne Moore +85
  • Mary Oliver +85
  • Mirza Ghalib +85
  • Nikki Giovanni +85
  • Ocean Vuong +85
  • Octavio Paz +85
  • Omar Khayyam +85
  • Ovid +85
  • Pam Ayres +85
  • Petrarch +85
  • Philip Larkin +85
  • Rainer Maria Rilke +85
  • Rita Dove +85
  • Robert Lowell +85
  • Sara Teasdale +85
  • Seamus Heaney +85
  • Spike Milligan +85
  • Ted Hughes +85
  • Thomas Hardy +85
  • Victor Hugo +85
  • Virgil +85
  • W.H. Auden +85
  • Wallace Stevens +85
  • Warsan Shire +85
  • William Carlos Williams +85
  • Wisława Szymborska +85
Rare +60 26 answers — tap to reveal
  • Alfred Tennyson +60
  • Allen Ginsberg +60
  • Charles Bukowski +60
  • Dorothy Parker +60
  • Dylan Thomas +60
  • E.E. Cummings +60
  • Elizabeth Barrett Browning +60
  • Emily Bronte +60
  • Ezra Pound +60
  • Geoffrey Chaucer +60
  • Goethe +60
  • Henry Wadsworth Longfellow +60
  • Khalil Gibran +60
  • Matsuo Basho +60
  • Ogden Nash +60
  • Oscar Wilde +60
  • Pablo Neruda +60
  • Percy Shelley +60
  • Rabindranath Tagore +60
  • Ralph Waldo Emerson +60
  • Robert Browning +60
  • Robert Burns +60
  • Rudyard Kipling +60
  • Samuel Taylor Coleridge +60
  • Sappho +60
  • William Butler Yeats +60
Schooler +30 13 answers — tap to reveal
  • Amanda Gorman +30
  • Dante +30
  • John Keats +30
  • John Milton +30
  • Langston Hughes +30
  • Lord Byron +30
  • Rupi Kaur +30
  • Shel Silverstein +30
  • Sylvia Plath +30
  • T.S. Eliot +30
  • Walt Whitman +30
  • William Blake +30
  • William Wordsworth +30
Too Clever +15 3 answers — tap to reveal
  • Dr. Seuss +15
  • Homer +15
  • Rumi +15
Plankton +10 5 answers — tap to reveal
  • Edgar Allan Poe +10
  • Emily Dickinson +10
  • Maya Angelou +10
  • Robert Frost +10
  • William Shakespeare +10