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Name a one-hit wonder song

This prompt carries 12 accepted answers in the Krillion Infinite bank, ranked from the response everyone gives to the one almost nobody finds — its One in a Krillion answer is Tainted Love by Soft Cell. The full ranking is below; treat it as training, because this prompt can surface in any Unlimited, Marathon, or pack dive.

Name a one-hit wonder song

🫧 Plankton (10 pts): Gangnam Style by PSY, Somebody That I Used to Know by Gotye

🤡 Too Clever (15 pts): Take On Me by a-ha, 867-5309/Jenny by Tommy Tutone

🐟 Schooler (30 pts): Ice Ice Baby by Vanilla Ice, Achy Breaky Heart by Billy Ray Cyrus

🦑 Rare (60 pts): Macarena by Los del Rio, Who Let the Dogs Out by Baha Men

🏮 Deep Cut (85 pts): Come On Eileen by Dexys Midnight Runners, Video Killed the Radio Star by The Buggles

🌟 One in a Krillion (100 pts): Tainted Love by Soft Cell, Mickey by Toni Basil

How to play this prompt

Under the clock, your first instinct here is the Plankton answer — it is first for a reason. The scoring lives further down the list: skip your first two ideas, picture the category from an unusual angle (a different country, decade, species, or use than the obvious one), and you are fishing in Rare and Deep Cut water. If the clock hits five seconds with nothing better, submit the safe answer — a Schooler in hand beats a timeout every time.

Prompts in the music shelf of the bank reward breadth more than trivia depth: the rarest answers are rarely the hardest facts, they are the valid answers the crowd's habits skip. That is why this page exists — seeing the tail of one prompt teaches you the shape of every prompt like it.

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