Name a part of a smartphone you can see or touch (accessories don't count)

What we would type in 25 seconds — rarity × spelling speed, not a dump of the public list.

Today's Krillion answers Practice this dive Dated sheet

25-second pick · +100

Trackball One in a Krillion

9 letters · 1 word · ~2s to type · 66 accepted answers on the sheet

If the first word feels too easy, it probably scores 10. We would type Trackball: One in a Krillion, +100, 9 letters, about 2 seconds on a keyboard. Do not burn the 25 seconds on Camera, Charging port, Home button, or Power button — 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 Camera · Charging port · Home button · Power button

Hints

Hint 1. 66 accepted answers. A strong pick is a single word, about 9 letters.

Hint 2 — a solid, typeable answer

Antenna

Hint 3 — a rare answer

Trackball · 100 pts

Best safe pick
Trackball 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

  • Trackball 100 pts · One in a Krillion
  • Gamepad 85 pts · Deep Cut
  • Slider 85 pts · Deep Cut
  • Trackpad 85 pts · Deep Cut
  • HDMI port 85 pts · Deep Cut
  • Media keys 85 pts · Deep Cut
  • Cooling vent 85 pts · Deep Cut
  • Gesture area 85 pts · Deep Cut

Strong alternatives

  • Antenna 60 pts
  • Bezel 60 pts
  • Crease 60 pts
  • D-pad 60 pts
  • Earpiece 60 pts
  • Hinge 60 pts
  • Keypad 60 pts
  • Kickstand 60 pts

Avoid — Plankton

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

  • Camera 10
  • Charging port 10
  • Home button 10
  • Power button 10
  • Screen 10
  • Speaker 10
  • Volume buttons 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 part of a smartphone you can see or touch (accessories don't count)

● One in a Krillion · 2 ● Deep Cut · 18 ● Rare · 27 ● Schooler · 12 ● Plankton · 7
One in a Krillion +100 2 answers — tap to reveal
  • Heart rate sensor +100 Samsung put a pulse reader beside the flash, then quietly dropped it.
  • Trackball +100 BlackBerry's little rolling pearl, worn smooth by a million thumbs.
Deep Cut +85 18 answers — tap to reveal
  • Charging contacts +85 Sony Xperia Z's magnetic dock pins on the side edge.
  • Cooling vent +85 Asus ROG Phone vents heat through a port on its side.
  • Gamepad +85 Sony Xperia Play slid open into a PlayStation controller.
  • Gesture area +85 Palm Pre's touch strip below the screen took swipe gestures.
  • Glyph lights +85 Nothing Phone's LED strips light up the back.
  • HDMI port +85 HTC Evo 4G and Motorola Droid X had micro HDMI out.
  • Iris scanner +85 Galaxy S8 unlocked by scanning your eyes through a window up top.
  • Lanyard hole +85 Sony Xperia and rugged phones mould a strap eyelet into the housing.
  • LiDAR scanner +85 iPhone 12 Pro added the black dot to the camera bump.
  • Media keys +85 Nokia N95 slid the other way to reveal music keys.
  • Programmable button +85 Cat and Sonim rugged phones carry a push-to-talk key.
  • Scroll wheel +85 BlackBerry 7290 scrolled with a wheel on the right edge.
  • Shoulder buttons +85 Asus ROG Phone's AirTriggers sit where a gamepad's bumpers would.
  • Slider +85 HTC Dream slid open to reveal its keyboard in 2008.
  • Swivel screen +85 T-Mobile Sidekick's screen spun around to uncover the keyboard.
  • Temperature sensor +85 Pixel 8 Pro's sensor on the camera bar reads object temperature.
  • Thermal camera +85 Cat S60 built a FLIR thermal lens into a rugged phone.
  • Trackpad +85 BlackBerry Bold 9700 swapped the trackball for an optical pad.
Rare +60 27 answers — tap to reveal
  • Action button +60 iPhone 15 Pro replaced the mute switch with it.
  • Antenna +60 Palm Treo 650's stub, and the lines on iPhone 6's back.
  • Bezel +60 iPhone 14 shrank it to a sliver around the screen.
  • Bixby button +60 Galaxy S8 to S10 had a dedicated key for Samsung's assistant.
  • Call button +60 HTC Dream and early BlackBerrys had green and red call keys.
  • Camera bump +60 iPhone 11 Pro's square bump started the trend.
  • Camera button +60 iPhone 16's Camera Control and Sony Xperia's shutter key.
  • Cover screen +60 Galaxy Z Flip's outer screen shows notifications while folded.
  • Crease +60 Galaxy Z Fold's inner screen shows a line where it folds.
  • Curved screen +60 Galaxy S6 Edge wrapped its screen over both sides.
  • D-pad +60 Nokia N95 and BlackBerry Pearl navigated with a five-way key.
  • Dynamic Island +60 iPhone 14 Pro turned the notch into a shape-shifting pill.
  • Earpiece +60 iPhone's slot above the screen you hold to your ear.
  • Hinge +60 Galaxy Z Fold and Z Flip fold on it.
  • IR blaster +60 Galaxy S4 to S6 worked as a TV remote through it.
  • Keypad +60 Nokia N95 and the E-series smartphones kept number keys.
  • Kickstand +60 HTC Evo 4G shipped with a fold-out kickstand in 2010.
  • Notch +60 iPhone X introduced it in 2017 and iPhone 14 Pro retired it.
  • Notification LED +60 Nexus One blinked a tiny light for new messages.
  • Physical keyboard +60 BlackBerry Bold's QWERTY keys, still on the KEY2 in 2018.
  • Pop-up camera +60 OnePlus 7 Pro's selfie camera rose out of the top edge.
  • Port flap +60 Galaxy S5's rubber flap kept its USB port waterproof.
  • Punch hole +60 Galaxy S10 cut a hole in the screen for the selfie camera.
  • Screws +60 iPhone 4 onward has two pentalobe screws beside the port.
  • SD card slot +60 Galaxy S7 and most Androids before 2020 took a microSD.
  • Soft keys +60 Galaxy S7's back and recents keys below the screen.
  • Under-display camera +60 Galaxy Z Fold 3 hid its inner selfie camera beneath the screen.
Schooler +30 12 answers — tap to reveal
  • Back cover +30
  • Buttons +30
  • Fingerprint sensor +30
  • Flash +30
  • Frame +30
  • Front camera +30
  • Headphone jack +30
  • Logo +30
  • Microphone +30
  • Mute switch +30
  • SIM tray +30
  • Stylus +30
Plankton +10 7 answers — tap to reveal
  • Camera +10
  • Charging port +10
  • Home button +10
  • Power button +10
  • Screen +10
  • Speaker +10
  • Volume buttons +10