Name a famous scientist

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25-second pick · +85

Hypatia Deep Cut

7 letters · 1 word · ~2s to type · 102 accepted answers on the sheet

The household-name pick is bait. Look one ring further out. We would type Hypatia: Deep Cut, +85, 7 letters, about 2 seconds on a keyboard. Do not burn the 25 seconds on Albert Einstein, Charles Darwin, Galileo Galilei, or Isaac Newton — those are Plankton. The trench answer is Ibn al-Haytham (+100), but only take it if you can spell it cold.

Trench spelling, only if you already know it: Ibn al-Haytham +100

Skip Albert Einstein · Charles Darwin · Galileo Galilei · Isaac Newton

Hints

Hint 1. 102 accepted answers. A strong pick is a single word, about 7 letters.

Hint 2 — a solid, typeable answer

Euclid

Hint 3 — a rare answer

Hypatia · 85 pts

Best safe pick
Hypatia 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

  • Hypatia 85 pts · Deep Cut
  • Brian Cox 85 pts · Deep Cut
  • Hedy Lamarr 85 pts · Deep Cut
  • Ibn Sina 85 pts · Deep Cut
  • Michio Kaku 85 pts · Deep Cut
  • Paul Dirac 85 pts · Deep Cut
  • Robert Koch 85 pts · Deep Cut
  • Tu Youyou 85 pts · Deep Cut

Strong alternatives

  • Euclid 60 pts
  • Ptolemy 60 pts
  • Carl Jung 60 pts
  • Ivan Pavlov 60 pts
  • John Dalton 60 pts
  • Jonas Salk 60 pts
  • Mae Jemison 60 pts
  • Max Planck 60 pts

Avoid — Plankton

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

  • Albert Einstein 10
  • Charles Darwin 10
  • Galileo Galilei 10
  • Isaac Newton 10
  • Marie Curie 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 scientist

● One in a Krillion · 1 ● Deep Cut · 34 ● Rare · 35 ● Schooler · 23 ● Too Clever · 2 ● Plankton · 7
One in a Krillion +100 1 answer — tap to reveal
  • Ibn al-Haytham +100
Deep Cut +85 34 answers — tap to reveal
  • A.P.J. Abdul Kalam +85
  • Al-Khwarizmi +85
  • Alexander von Humboldt +85
  • Antonie van Leeuwenhoek +85
  • B.F. Skinner +85
  • Barbara McClintock +85
  • Brian Cox +85
  • C.V. Raman +85
  • Chien-Shiung Wu +85
  • Dorothy Hodgkin +85
  • Emmy Noether +85
  • Georges Lemaitre +85
  • Hedy Lamarr +85
  • Hypatia +85
  • Ibn Sina +85
  • Irene Joliot-Curie +85
  • J.J. Thomson +85
  • Jennifer Doudna +85
  • John von Neumann +85
  • Katalin Kariko +85
  • Lise Meitner +85
  • Michio Kaku +85
  • Norman Borlaug +85
  • Paul Dirac +85
  • Percy Julian +85
  • Pierre Curie +85
  • Robert Koch +85
  • Satyendra Nath Bose +85
  • Sophie Germain +85
  • Stephen Jay Gould +85
  • Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar +85
  • Tu Youyou +85
  • Tycho Brahe +85
  • Wolfgang Pauli +85
Rare +60 35 answers — tap to reveal
  • Alexander Fleming +60
  • Amedeo Avogadro +60
  • Antoine Lavoisier +60
  • Blaise Pascal +60
  • Carl Jung +60
  • Carl Linnaeus +60
  • Charles Babbage +60
  • Dmitri Mendeleev +60
  • Edward Jenner +60
  • Edwin Hubble +60
  • Enrico Fermi +60
  • Ernest Rutherford +60
  • Erwin Schrodinger +60
  • Euclid +60
  • Francis Crick +60
  • Grace Hopper +60
  • Hippocrates +60
  • Ivan Pavlov +60
  • James Clerk Maxwell +60
  • James Watson +60
  • Johannes Kepler +60
  • John Dalton +60
  • Jonas Salk +60
  • Linus Pauling +60
  • Mae Jemison +60
  • Max Planck +60
  • Ptolemy +60
  • Richard Dawkins +60
  • Richard Feynman +60
  • Robert Boyle +60
  • Robert Hooke +60
  • Sigmund Freud +60
  • Srinivasa Ramanujan +60
  • Vera Rubin +60
  • Werner Heisenberg +60
Schooler +30 23 answers — tap to reveal
  • Ada Lovelace +30
  • Alan Turing +30
  • Alexander Graham Bell +30
  • Alfred Nobel +30
  • Archimedes +30
  • Aristotle +30
  • Benjamin Franklin +30
  • Bill Nye +30
  • Carl Sagan +30
  • Copernicus +30
  • George Washington Carver +30
  • Gregor Mendel +30
  • Jane Goodall +30
  • Katherine Johnson +30
  • Leonardo da Vinci +30
  • Louis Pasteur +30
  • Michael Faraday +30
  • Niels Bohr +30
  • Nikola Tesla +30
  • Pythagoras +30
  • Rachel Carson +30
  • Sally Ride +30
  • Thomas Edison +30
Too Clever +15 2 answers — tap to reveal
  • Neil deGrasse Tyson +15
  • Rosalind Franklin +15
Plankton +10 7 answers — tap to reveal
  • Albert Einstein +10
  • Charles Darwin +10
  • Galileo Galilei +10
  • Isaac Newton +10
  • Marie Curie +10
  • Robert Oppenheimer +10
  • Stephen Hawking +10