Name a logical fallacy

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25-second pick · +85

Bulverism Deep Cut

9 letters · 1 word · ~2s to type · 135 accepted answers on the sheet

If the first word feels too easy, it probably scores 10. We would type Bulverism: Deep Cut, +85, 9 letters, about 2 seconds on a keyboard. Do not burn the 25 seconds on Ad hominem, Slippery slope, or Strawman — those are Plankton. The trench answer is Ignoratio elenchi (+100), but only take it if you can spell it cold.

Trench spelling, only if you already know it: Ignoratio elenchi +100

Skip Ad hominem · Slippery slope · Strawman

Hints

Hint 1. 135 accepted answers. A strong pick is a single word, about 9 letters.

Hint 2 — a solid, typeable answer

Post hoc

Hint 3 — a rare answer

Bulverism · 85 pts

Best safe pick
Bulverism 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

  • Bulverism 85 pts · Deep Cut
  • Nutpicking 85 pts · Deep Cut
  • Pooh-pooh 85 pts · Deep Cut
  • Gish gallop 85 pts · Deep Cut
  • Loki's wager 85 pts · Deep Cut
  • If-by-whiskey 85 pts · Deep Cut
  • Reification 85 pts · Deep Cut
  • Courtier's reply 85 pts · Deep Cut

Strong alternatives

  • Post hoc 60 pts
  • Tu quoque 60 pts
  • Equivocation 60 pts
  • False analogy 60 pts
  • Genetic fallacy 60 pts
  • Loaded question 60 pts
  • Non sequitur 60 pts
  • Appeal to fear 60 pts

Avoid — Plankton

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

  • Ad hominem 10
  • Slippery slope 10
  • Strawman 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.

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Name a logical fallacy

● One in a Krillion · 1 ● Deep Cut · 91 ● Rare · 31 ● Schooler · 8 ● Too Clever · 1 ● Plankton · 3
One in a Krillion +100 1 answer — tap to reveal
  • Ignoratio elenchi +100
Deep Cut +85 91 answers — tap to reveal
  • Accident fallacy +85
  • Ad hoc rescue +85
  • Affirming a disjunct +85
  • Affirming the consequent +85
  • Appeal to accomplishment +85
  • Appeal to flattery +85
  • Appeal to motive +85
  • Appeal to poverty +85
  • Appeal to probability +85
  • Appeal to ridicule +85
  • Appeal to spite +85
  • Appeal to the stone +85
  • Appeal to wealth +85
  • Argument from repetition +85
  • Argument from silence +85
  • Baconian fallacy +85
  • Base rate fallacy +85
  • Bulverism +85
  • Chronological snobbery +85
  • Conjunction fallacy +85
  • Continuum fallacy +85
  • Courtier's reply +85
  • Definitional retreat +85
  • Denying a conjunct +85
  • Denying the antecedent +85
  • Division fallacy +85
  • Doorman fallacy +85
  • Double counting +85
  • Ecological fallacy +85
  • Etymological fallacy +85
  • Exclusive premises +85
  • Existential fallacy +85
  • Fallacy of accent +85
  • Fallacy of four terms +85
  • Fallacy of relative privation +85
  • Fallacy of the single cause +85
  • False attribution +85
  • Furtive fallacy +85
  • Galileo gambit +85
  • Gish gallop +85
  • Goomba fallacy +85
  • Historian's fallacy +85
  • Homunculus fallacy +85
  • I'm entitled to my opinion +85
  • If-by-whiskey +85
  • Ignoring a common cause +85
  • Illicit major +85
  • Illicit minor +85
  • Incomplete comparison +85
  • Inflation of conflict +85
  • Inverse gambler's fallacy +85
  • Invincible ignorance +85
  • Kettle logic +85
  • Logic chopping +85
  • Loki's wager +85
  • Ludic fallacy +85
  • Lump of labour fallacy +85
  • Magical thinking +85
  • Masked man fallacy +85
  • McNamara fallacy +85
  • Middle ground fallacy +85
  • Mind projection fallacy +85
  • Misleading vividness +85
  • Modal fallacy +85
  • Moralistic fallacy +85
  • Nirvana fallacy +85
  • Nutpicking +85
  • Overwhelming exception +85
  • Package deal fallacy +85
  • Persuasive definition +85
  • Politician's syllogism +85
  • Pooh-pooh +85
  • Proof by assertion +85
  • Prosecutor's fallacy +85
  • Proving too much +85
  • Psychologist's fallacy +85
  • Regression fallacy +85
  • Reification +85
  • Retrospective determinism +85
  • Slothful induction +85
  • Special pleading +85
  • Style over substance +85
  • Suppressed correlative +85
  • Survivorship bias +85
  • Texas sharpshooter +85
  • Thought-terminating cliché +85
  • Tone policing +85
  • Traitorous critic fallacy +85
  • Undistributed middle +85
  • Wishful thinking +85
  • Wrong direction +85
Rare +60 31 answers — tap to reveal
  • Anecdotal fallacy +60
  • Appeal to consequences +60
  • Appeal to fear +60
  • Appeal to force +60
  • Appeal to ignorance +60
  • Appeal to nature +60
  • Appeal to novelty +60
  • Appeal to pity +60
  • Appeal to tradition +60
  • Association fallacy +60
  • Composition fallacy +60
  • Cum hoc ergo propter hoc +60
  • Equivocation +60
  • False analogy +60
  • False equivalence +60
  • Gambler's fallacy +60
  • Genetic fallacy +60
  • Hasty generalization +60
  • Loaded question +60
  • Motte and bailey +60
  • Moving the goalposts +60
  • Naturalistic fallacy +60
  • Non sequitur +60
  • Personal incredulity +60
  • Poisoning the well +60
  • Post hoc +60
  • Quoting out of context +60
  • Shifting the burden of proof +60
  • Sunk cost fallacy +60
  • Tu quoque +60
  • Two wrongs make a right +60
Schooler +30 8 answers — tap to reveal
  • Appeal to authority +30
  • Appeal to emotion +30
  • Bandwagon +30
  • Begging the question +30
  • Cherry picking +30
  • False dilemma +30
  • No true Scotsman +30
  • Red herring +30
Too Clever +15 1 answer — tap to reveal
  • Fallacy fallacy +15
Plankton +10 3 answers — tap to reveal
  • Ad hominem +10
  • Slippery slope +10
  • Strawman +10