Name a video game genre

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25-second pick · +85

Advergame Deep Cut

9 letters · 1 word · ~2s to type · 246 accepted answers on the sheet

If the first word feels too easy, it probably scores 10. We would type Advergame: Deep Cut, +85, 9 letters, about 2 seconds on a keyboard. Do not burn the 25 seconds on Action, Adventure, First-person shooter, or Puzzle — those are Plankton. The trench answer is Immersive sim (+100), but only take it if you can spell it cold.

Trench spelling, only if you already know it: Immersive sim +100

Skip Action · Adventure · First-person shooter · Puzzle

Hints

Hint 1. 246 accepted answers. A strong pick is a single word, about 9 letters.

Hint 2 — a solid, typeable answer

Casual

Hint 3 — a rare answer

Advergame · 85 pts

Best safe pick
Advergame 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

  • Advergame 85 pts · Deep Cut
  • Breakout 85 pts · Deep Cut
  • CRPG 85 pts · Deep Cut
  • Eroge 85 pts · Deep Cut
  • Exergame 85 pts · Deep Cut
  • Gacha 85 pts · Deep Cut
  • Kaizo 85 pts · Deep Cut
  • Karaoke 85 pts · Deep Cut

Strong alternatives

  • Casual 60 pts
  • JRPG 60 pts
  • Match-3 60 pts
  • MOBA 60 pts
  • Pinball 60 pts
  • Rhythm 60 pts
  • Roguelite 60 pts
  • Soulslike 60 pts

Avoid — Plankton

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

  • Action 10
  • Adventure 10
  • First-person shooter 10
  • Puzzle 10
  • Racing 10
  • Role-playing game 10
  • Shooter 10
  • Sports 10
  • Strategy 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 video game genre

● One in a Krillion · 1 ● Deep Cut · 166 ● Rare · 57 ● Schooler · 13 ● Plankton · 9
One in a Krillion +100 1 answer — tap to reveal
  • Immersive sim +100
Deep Cut +85 166 answers — tap to reveal
  • .io game +85
  • 4X +85
  • Action horror +85
  • Action puzzle +85
  • Action roguelike +85
  • Action RTS +85
  • Action-strategy game +85
  • Advergame +85
  • Aim trainer +85
  • Alternate reality game +85
  • Arcade racer +85
  • Archery game +85
  • Arena fighter +85
  • Arena shooter +85
  • Art game +85
  • Artillery game +85
  • Audio game +85
  • Auto battler +85
  • Base-building game +85
  • Baseball game +85
  • Billiards game +85
  • Bishojo game +85
  • Boomer shooter +85
  • Bowling game +85
  • Boxing game +85
  • Brain training game +85
  • Breakout +85
  • Bullet hell +85
  • Character action game +85
  • Cleaning game +85
  • Climbing game +85
  • Collectathon +85
  • Colony sim +85
  • Combat flight simulator +85
  • Construction and management simulation +85
  • Courtroom game +85
  • Cover shooter +85
  • Cricket game +85
  • CRPG +85
  • Cycling game +85
  • Dance game +85
  • Deckbuilder +85
  • Decorating game +85
  • Detective game +85
  • Dice game +85
  • Digital therapeutic game +85
  • Dot-eat game +85
  • Drawing game +85
  • Dress-up game +85
  • Eroge +85
  • Exergame +85
  • Extraction RPG +85
  • Extraction shooter +85
  • Factory game +85
  • Falling-block puzzle +85
  • Falling-sand game +85
  • First-person party-based RPG +85
  • First-person puzzle +85
  • Fixed shooter +85
  • Gacha +85
  • Game with a purpose +85
  • God game +85
  • Golf game +85
  • Government simulation game +85
  • Grand strategy +85
  • Graphic adventure +85
  • Hacking game +85
  • Hero brawler +85
  • Hero shooter +85
  • Hobby sim +85
  • Hockey game +85
  • Hunting action +85
  • Hypercasual +85
  • Idle RPG +85
  • Interactive movie +85
  • Inventory management game +85
  • Isometric shooter +85
  • Job simulation game +85
  • Kaizo +85
  • Karaoke +85
  • Kinetic novel +85
  • Light gun shooter +85
  • Location-based game +85
  • Logic game +85
  • Looter shooter +85
  • Mahjong game +85
  • Mahjong solitaire game +85
  • Masocore +85
  • Maze game +85
  • Mech +85
  • Medical sim +85
  • Memory game +85
  • Merge game +85
  • Military combat simulator +85
  • Minigame collection +85
  • MMOFPS +85
  • MMORTS +85
  • MMOTBS +85
  • Monster-taming game +85
  • MUD +85
  • Musou +85
  • Narrative adventure +85
  • Naval combat game +85
  • Newsgame +85
  • Otome +85
  • Outbreak sim +85
  • Pachinko game +85
  • Pachislot game +85
  • Paddle-and-ball game +85
  • Party-based RPG +85
  • Persuasive game +85
  • Photography game +85
  • Physics puzzle +85
  • Physics sandbox +85
  • Platform fighter +85
  • Precision platformer +85
  • Programming game +85
  • Puzzle-adventure +85
  • Puzzle-platformer +85
  • Rail shooter +85
  • Raising simulation +85
  • Rally game +85
  • Real-time tactics +85
  • Reveal the picture game +85
  • Reverse horror +85
  • Rocks-and-diamonds game +85
  • Roguelike deckbuilder +85
  • Roguevania +85
  • Run and gun +85
  • Sandbox role-playing game +85
  • Serious game +85
  • Ship simulator +85
  • Shop-keeping game +85
  • Sim racing +85
  • Sniper game +85
  • Social deduction +85
  • Social simulation game +85
  • Sokoban +85
  • Space sim +85
  • Sports management +85
  • Sports-based fighting game +85
  • Stunt racer +85
  • Submarine simulator +85
  • Survivors-like +85
  • Tactical shooter +85
  • Tactics +85
  • Tank sim +85
  • Tennis game +85
  • Theme park sim +85
  • Time management game +85
  • Top-down +85
  • Top-down shooter +85
  • Tower offense +85
  • Toys-to-life +85
  • Trading sim +85
  • Train simulator +85
  • Transport sim +85
  • Truck simulator +85
  • Turn-based MMORPG +85
  • Turn-based tactics +85
  • Twin-stick shooter +85
  • Typing game +85
  • Vehicle simulation game +85
  • Vehicular combat +85
  • Wargame +85
  • Zoo sim +85
Rare +60 57 answers — tap to reveal
  • Action RPG +60
  • Action-adventure +60
  • Basketball game +60
  • Beat 'em up +60
  • Board game +60
  • Card game +60
  • Casino game +60
  • Casual +60
  • City builder +60
  • Cooking game +60
  • Cozy game +60
  • Dating sim +60
  • Dungeon crawler +60
  • Educational +60
  • Endless runner +60
  • Escape room +60
  • Farming sim +60
  • Fishing game +60
  • Flight sim +60
  • Football game +60
  • Hack and slash +60
  • Hidden object +60
  • Hunting game +60
  • Idle game +60
  • JRPG +60
  • Kart racer +60
  • Life sim +60
  • Match-3 +60
  • Metroidvania +60
  • MOBA +60
  • Party game +60
  • Pinball +60
  • Point and click +60
  • Rhythm +60
  • Roguelite +60
  • Shoot 'em up +60
  • Side-scroller +60
  • Skateboarding game +60
  • Snake game +60
  • Soccer game +60
  • Soulslike +60
  • Stealth +60
  • Survival crafting +60
  • Survival horror +60
  • Tactical RPG +60
  • Text adventure +60
  • Third-person shooter +60
  • Tower defense +60
  • Trivia +60
  • Turn-based role-playing game +60
  • Turn-based strategy +60
  • Tycoon +60
  • Virtual pet +60
  • Visual novel +60
  • Walking simulator +60
  • Word game +60
  • Wrestling game +60
Schooler +30 13 answers — tap to reveal
  • Arcade +30
  • Battle royale +30
  • Fighting +30
  • Horror +30
  • MMO +30
  • MMORPG +30
  • Open world +30
  • Platformer +30
  • Real-time strategy +30
  • Roguelike +30
  • Sandbox +30
  • Simulation +30
  • Survival +30
Plankton +10 9 answers — tap to reveal
  • Action +10
  • Adventure +10
  • First-person shooter +10
  • Puzzle +10
  • Racing +10
  • Role-playing game +10
  • Shooter +10
  • Sports +10
  • Strategy +10