Name a winner of the men's Ballon d'Or: rare answers

“Name a winner of the men's Ballon d'Or” has 47 accepted answers here, and 17 of them (36%) are rare enough for the two deepest tiers. Cristiano Ronaldo, Lionel Messi and Zinedine Zidane are the Surface answers almost everyone gives.

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Accepted answers: 47
Category: Sports
Deep answers (85–100 pts): 17 (36%)
Alternate spellings accepted: 1 answers
First letters: 18 different; R is the most common (7)

🐙 Abyssal: 6 answers (13%), 100 pts each
🦑 Midnight Zone: 11 answers (23%), 85 pts each
🐠 Twilight Zone: 14 answers (30%), 60 pts each
🐟 Sunlit Zone: 12 answers (26%), 30 pts each
🌊 Surface: 4 answers (9%), 10 pts each

The rarest answers

6 answers are Abyssal here, the ones we expect the fewest players to think of: Omar Sívori, Allan Simonsen, Flórián Albert, Igor Belanov, Luis Suárez and Josef Masopust. Each is worth 100 points, ten times a Surface answer.

🐙 Abyssal answers (100 points)

Omar Sívori, Allan Simonsen, Flórián Albert, Igor Belanov, Luis Suárez, Josef Masopust

🦑 Midnight Zone answers (85 points)

Paolo Rossi, Pavel Nedvěd, Karl-Heinz Rummenigge, Denis Law, Stanley Matthews, Rodri, Oleg Blokhin, Jean-Pierre Papin, Raymond Kopa, Matthias Sammer, Gianni Rivera

🐠 Twilight Zone answers (60 points)

Andriy Shevchenko, Luís Figo, Marco van Basten, Alfredo Di Stéfano, Gerd Müller, Michel Platini, Kevin Keegan, Eusébio, Fabio Cannavaro, Rivaldo, Lev Yashin, Ruud Gullit, Lothar Matthäus, Hristo Stoichkov

🐟 Sunlit Zone answers (30 points)

Ronaldinho, Karim Benzema, Luka Modrić, Johan Cruyff, Kaká, George Weah, Ousmane Dembélé, Franz Beckenbauer, Roberto Baggio, George Best, Michael Owen, Bobby Charlton

🌊 Surface answers (10 points)

Cristiano Ronaldo, Lionel Messi, Zinedine Zidane, Ronaldo Nazário

Other spellings we accept

Type any of these and the game counts it as the same answer. Small typos are forgiven on longer answers too.

Cristiano Ronaldo: CR7

Rarity tiers are our own estimate of how few people would think of each answer. For strategy, read how to find One in a Krillion answers.

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