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Krillion at a glance
Krillion turns a familiar daily-puzzle habit inside out. Instead of finding the one hidden answer, you get seven open prompts and 25 seconds each to name something valid that other people will not think of. The rarer the accepted answer, the deeper your dive goes. This page explains the tier system, how the answer sets are built, and the habits that move a run away from the obvious picks.
How to play the Krillion daily dive
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Start the numbered daily dive
Open krillion.io to start the daily dive. Krillion gives every player the same seven prompts, and each prompt allows 25 seconds for one typed answer. The site numbers each dive, so a friend elsewhere can compare the same set. One dive per day is the rule, with no second attempt, and the whole run takes a few minutes.
One shared set, one dive
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Read an open category prompt
Read the prompt as an open category rather than a quiz question with one right answer. A Krillion prompt might ask you to name something from a group, and hundreds of valid answers can fit. Your job is not simply to be correct. It is to pick the valid answer that the fewest other players are likely to type before the clock runs out.
Hundreds of answers fit
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Submit one curated answer
Type one answer and submit it. Krillion checks the word against a curated answer set built by merging dictionaries, wiki pages and other datasets, then cleaning the result. A reasonable answer can still be missing, and the developer says so plainly in the FAQ. If a word is rejected, try a common short form while time remains.
Twenty-five seconds per prompt
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Turn rarity into depth
Scoring is a rarity ladder. Krillion places each accepted answer in a tier, from the obvious low-scoring picks up to the rare gem worth 100 points. Every point sinks your dive ten metres, so a perfect 700-point run reaches the hadal trench. Obvious answers float near the surface; the round turns your total into a depth reading.
Ten metres for every point
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Check aliases and autocorrect
Watch the aliases. Krillion accepts alternate names and historical spellings, and its autocorrect checks those aliases too. The FAQ gives the example of a fish whose alias sits one letter away from a completely different phrase, which is why a typo can resolve to a surprising valid entry. Check what the game says it heard before moving on.
Aliases resolve to entries
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Understand the top gem
Do not assume the top tier is the most obscure word available. The Krillion gem is chosen for fun as well as rarity, because past a certain depth obscurity becomes impossible to rank fairly. The tier named Too Clever exists for the clever-sounding pick that half the player base also thought of, so an unusual word is not automatically a deep one.
Fun counts beside rarity
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Read the finished dive
Finish all seven prompts and read the dive result. Beyond the daily run, Krillion offers an archive, themed packs, an unlimited mode and a party mode with a shared timer. The daily dive itself stays one shared puzzle per day, and the numbered result is what you compare with friends without revealing the answers.
Compare without spoilers
Krillion tips for a deeper dive
Walk past the obvious pick
Skip the first answer that comes to mind. In Krillion the obvious response is exactly what thousands of other players type, so it lands in a shallow tier. Spend two or three seconds walking past the everyday example and into a specific subcategory. A genus instead of an animal, or a regional variant instead of a national one, usually sinks considerably deeper without risking a rejected word. That habit alone separates a shallow Krillion dive from a deep one.
Parse the qualifier first
Read every qualifier in the prompt before you commit. Krillion prompts often carry a constraint about a place, a period or a group, and an answer that ignores it will not be accepted even when it is rare. The clock is short, so make the qualifier the first thing you parse. A rare answer outside the category scores nothing at all. A narrow miss is still a miss.
Read the published archive
Study the archive before a run. Krillion publishes past dives with their accepted answers and tiers, which is the fastest way to learn what the curator considers rare. Patterns repeat across prompts: broad categories reward narrow specialist vocabulary, and the same popular picks keep appearing in the shallow tiers. Ten minutes of reading changes how the next seven prompts feel. Patterns repeat across weeks of published dives.
Practise in extra modes
Treat the themed packs and unlimited mode as practice, not as a second daily score. Krillion keeps the daily dive to one numbered run per day, so extra rounds are where you test how far a specialist vocabulary can go. Bring what you learn back to the shared puzzle, where a single well-chosen answer can move you several hundred metres. Save the comparison for after both runs are done.
Reach for formal names
Use proper nouns, scientific names and older names when the prompt allows them. Krillion builds answer sets from encyclopedias and domain datasets, so the formal name of a species, a less common place or a historical term is often already in the list. The generous alias matching means a near miss on spelling may still resolve, but a vague everyday word never will. The answer set, not your taste, decides what counts.
Bank a safe answer
Keep one safe answer ready as the timer drops. A typed answer in a low tier still adds to your Krillion depth, while a blank submission or a timeout adds zero. Once you have a valid word in hand, you can decide whether to keep hunting, but never let the 25 seconds expire while you are still choosing between two clever candidates. Bank something before the clock decides for you.
Skip repeated aliases
Do not burn a prompt on a spelling variant of an answer you already submitted. Aliases in Krillion resolve to the same entry, so repeating a name in another form just repaints the same tier. If a word was rejected, change the concept rather than the spelling. The answer set either contains the idea or it does not. The extra Krillion modes never overwrite the numbered daily.
Krillion compared with other daily games
Noillirk
Rarity versus consensusNoillirk is the mirror image of Krillion. Both present open prompts with hundreds of defensible answers, but Krillion pays for the answer almost nobody else gives while Noillirk pays for the one everybody gives. A Krillion player hunts for a deep cut; a Noillirk player wants the single top answer on a nine-person survey board. The scoring runs in opposite directions too: Krillion sinks you toward an ocean trench with rarity, and Noillirk lifts a krill toward space with consensus. Playing both back to back is the quickest way to feel how much a scoring rule changes your instincts.
Poople
Open answer versus fixed pathPoople has one visible target and a fixed board, while Krillion has no target at all. In Poople you change a single letter at a time until the chain reaches POOP, and every intermediate word has to be real. In Krillion the puzzle is choosing among hundreds of valid words rather than finding a path between two of them. Both are short daily games with no account, but Poople rewards route planning and vocabulary, and Krillion rewards knowing which corner of a category other people forget. One is a graph, the other is a crowd.
Factle
Escaping a ranked listFactle asks you to rank the five most popular answers to a daily question in five tries, with colour feedback after each guess. Krillion does the opposite: it hands you an open category and grades one answer by how few people would choose it. Factle is about recovering a fixed ranked list through deduction, while Krillion is about escaping that list entirely. Both are free browser trivia games built around a shared daily set, and both make the crowd the hidden opponent, but only one of them wants you to be ordinary.
Krillion FAQ
How many prompts are in a daily dive?
Seven. Everyone gets the same seven prompts for that day, with 25 seconds to type one answer for each. The whole run takes a few minutes and produces a single score.
What makes an answer score higher than another?
Rarity. Accepted answers sit in tiers from obvious low-scoring picks up to the top gem worth 100 points. Some prompts are graded against a word-familiarity database; others get a manual pass.
Why would a fair answer be rejected?
The answer set is assembled by merging dictionaries, wiki pages and encyclopedias, then cleaning the result. The developer acknowledges that sources can be missed, so a reasonable word may be absent.
Is the top gem always the most obscure entry?
No. Past a certain depth, rarity is hard to separate, so the gem is also picked because landing on it is satisfying. A Deep Cut can be less familiar than the chosen gem.
Why does autocorrect change my word into something else?
Aliases are checked alongside main entries. Some accepted answers have alternative names, so being a letter or two off an alias can resolve to a different valid answer than you expected.
Can I play more than one dive each day?
The Daily Dive is one shared run per day, numbered on the site. Separate archive, themed packs, unlimited and party modes exist, but they do not replace that day's numbered dive.
What does the depth reading represent?
Every point sinks the dive ten metres. A perfect 700-point run reaches the hadal trench, and the page marks zones such as the midnight zone, the abyssal plain and the trench floor.
Krillion update notes
2026-11-12
Checked on 11 November 2026 against the official Krillion site and its FAQ. The homepage states seven prompts at 25 seconds each, ten metres of depth per point and a 700-point trench, with a single dive per day. The FAQ explains how answer sets are merged and cleaned, why the top gem is chosen for fun as well as rarity, and why alias matching can resolve an unexpected word. No launch date, daily reset clock or player rating is published on those pages, so this page leaves them out.
Seven prompts, 25 seconds each, one numbered daily dive with no second attempt.
Answer sets combine dictionaries, wiki pages and encyclopedias; missing fair answers are acknowledged.
No release date, reset hour or rating is claimed, because the official pages do not publish one.
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