Prompt 7 of 7
Name a punctuation mark or typographic symbol
60 accepted answers across 6 rarity tiers.
100 ptsOne in a Krillion1 answer
The rarest possible answer — almost no player finds it.
- Asterism— Three asterisks in a triangle, too obsolete for most fonts.
85 ptsDeep Cut29 answers
Genuinely obscure. Most players never think of it.
- Acute accent
- Angle brackets
- Backtick
- Cedilla
- Cent sign
- Dagger
- Dinkus
- Ditto mark
- Double dagger
- Euro sign
- Fleuron
- Grawlix— Cartoonist Mort Walker coined the name for comic-strip swearing.
- Guillemets
- Interpunct
- Interrobang— An adman invented it in 1962; keyboards never bothered.
- Inverted exclamation mark
- Inverted question mark
- Irony mark
- Lozenge
- Manicule
- Numero sign
- Obelus
- Per mille sign
- Prime
- Section sign
- Tironian et
- Trademark symbol
- Umlaut
- Vertical bar
60 ptsRare11 answers
Uncommon — only a minority of players land here.
- Backslash
- Braces
- Brackets
- Bullet point
- Caret
- Copyright symbol
- Degree sign
- Dollar sign
- Percent sign
- Tilde
- Underscore
30 ptsSchooler11 answers
A solid, middling pick shared with plenty of other players.
- Ampersand— A squashed Latin 'et' that graduated to its own key.
- Apostrophe
- Asterisk
- At sign
- Colon
- Dash
- Hashtag
- Hyphen
- Parentheses
- Quotation marks
- Slash
15 ptsToo Clever4 answers
An overthought pick that scores below the middle of the board.
- Ellipsis— Its name is Greek for omission.
- Oxford comma— A missing one cost a Maine dairy five million dollars.
- Pilcrow— Word processors hide one at the end of every paragraph.
- Semicolon— Kurt Vonnegut told writers to never use one.
10 ptsPlankton4 answers
The most common answer on the board.
- Comma
- Exclamation mark
- Period
- Question mark