By The Numbers: General
This is the point value of the highest-scoring letters in Scrabble—if you’re lucky enough to land a Q or Z
10
Early Exit
A brand of jeans & a Jeep model both have this name that can also refer to someone who saddles horses
Wrangler
This manager once danced for 46 hours straight as part of a college fundraiser
Jess Holmes
In 2024, TikToker Jools Lebron sparked a viral trend (and a trademark war) by describing her work makeup routine with these two words—equal parts modesty and satire.
Very demure, very mindful
According to The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, this is the answer to the Ultimate Question of Life, the Universe, and Everything—though the actual Question remains unknown
42
Blank Lineup
Daily Fantasy Sports
This mythic watchdog of the underworld had snakes growing from its back
Cerberus
This manager has piloted two international emergency medevacs overseas
Alex Clausen
This three-letter word left the Among Us game lobby and entered real life as a way to describe anyone acting off, weird, or too quiet in a group setting.
The sixth digit after the decimal point in pi
2
Demo Code
Casino
Inky, Blinky, Pinky & Clyde are the ghosts in this classic video game
Pac-Man
This VIP analyst grew up with as many as 20 chickens as pets (not meals)
Katie Houskeeper
Originally used in hip-hop to mean “no lie,” this slang term now shows up anytime someone says something wild but dead serious.
No cap
In the popular puzzle game 2048, victory comes by combining like-numbered tiles until you reach the titular tile value—equal to this power of 2
11
Distribution of Entries
Pick6
Feb. 2, 2020 provided a numeric form of this across the world, something that last occurred 914 years ago & will happen again in 96
Palindrome
This Risk analyst was once on the same basketball team as Sasha Obama
Naomi Korn
They said “you look great” in a club bathroom at 2:15 a.m.—now you’re wondering if it’s fate. You might be on to something, or you might just be this.
Delulu
This is the number of zeroes in a googol—a number so absurdly large it makes national debt look like pocket change.
100
Tournament Cancellation
Casino
If you have any Na, you've got sodium; if you have any Ne, you've got this gas
Neon
This Platform analyst was valedictorian in high school
Amy Traianou
All it took was them saying "hey" and your heart fluttered—academics would call it chemistry, but the kids would call it this.
Rizz