Secret Spot · Puzzle #20 · Monday, October 19
Secret Spot: the answers
Seven prompts, one answer each, and the fewer surfers who said yours, the more it scored. Here are the prompts with the answers we expected to be most common, and the rarest. Play today's Secret Spot, or play this day as practice (never counted).
1. Name a soft drink
Each soft drink counts once, by brand or kind (cream soda, lemonade). A diet, zero or flavor version counts as its brand: Diet Coke is Coca-Cola, Baja Blast is Mountain Dew. Energy and sports drinks count.
The answer sheet for this prompt accepts 360 different answers. The usual answers are Coca-Cola, Pepsi and Dr Pepper, the party waves, worth 1.0 each. Watch out for Root beer and Fresca: however original those picks seem, the sheet marks them as kook moves, worth 1.5. The big scores sit further out: Calpis, Orbitz and Thums Up are rated Locals only on the sheet, worth up to 8.5. One deep cut: Japan's Calpis is sold in North America as Calpico.
Most common
- Coca-Cola
- Pepsi
- Dr Pepper
Rarest
- Cel-Ray: Cel-Ray is a celery-flavored soda from Dr. Brown's. Source: Wikipedia, “Cel-Ray” (CC BY-SA)
- Rivella: Swiss Rivella is a soft drink made from milk whey. Source: Wikipedia, “Rivella” (CC BY-SA)
- Kofola: Kofola is the main rival of Coca-Cola and Pepsi in Czechia and Slovakia. Source: Wikipedia, “Kofola” (CC BY-SA)
Before the crowd came in: the answers we expected to be most and least common, from how well known each one is.
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