Krillion DailyThe Krillion Daily guide
Most quizzes want the right answer. Krillion Daily wants a right answer that nobody else gives. Every question has hundreds of valid replies, and the further you get from the obvious ones, the deeper your submarine goes.
- One dive, step by step
- Points and tiers
- Two sheets taken apart
- Who decides what counts
- How deep is deep
- Today, practice and past dives
- Getting deeper
- Questions
One dive, step by step
A new dive opens every night at 00:00 New York time and stays open for exactly one day. It is made of seven questions, one from each of our themes: animals and nature, places, screen, page and stage, the kitchen, sport and play, science, and daily life. Every player on the planet sees the same seven on the same day, which is what makes comparing results fun.
A question asks you to name a single thing: a dog breed, a board game, a river in Europe. Some add a rule, for example a first letter or an exact length. You have 25 seconds of air for each one. Type your answer and press Go. When the air runs out before you answer, the question scores nothing and the dive moves on. You cannot go back, and today's dive can only be played once.
When the seventh answer is in, the submarine surfaces. You see how deep you went, which zone of the ocean that is, and a grid of coloured squares that shows how you did without giving the answers away.
Points and tiers
A valid answer always lands in the same tier for the same question, so two players with the same answer get the same points. Each point is worth 10 metres.
| Tier | Points | Who gives answers like this |
|---|---|---|
| Plankton | 10 | Almost everyone. The five most typed answers to a question. |
| Too Clever | 15 | Everyone who wants to look original. One famous "odd" answer per question. |
| Schooler | 30 | A big crowd. Roughly the next twenty answers after Plankton. |
| Rare | 60 | Players who think for a few more seconds. About seventy answers per question. |
| Deep Cut | 85 | Hardly anyone. The long tail, usually the biggest part of a sheet. |
| One in a Million | 100 | The pearl. One or two chosen answers per question, each with a fact. |
| No score | 0 | Wrong, too vague, against the rule of the question, or too late. |
Seven pearls make 700 points. That is 7,000 metres and the bottom of our ocean.
Two sheets taken apart
"Name a dog breed."
The sheet behind this question accepts 379 breeds. Labrador, German Shepherd, Golden Retriever, Poodle and French Bulldog are Plankton. Beagle, Pug, Dachshund, Corgi and Dalmatian swim with the Schoolers. The Basenji, the "barkless" dog that every trivia fan knows, is the Too Clever trap at 15. Keep going and the Samoyed, Weimaraner or Whippet bring a Rare 60, while the Komondor, Leonberger or Glen of Imaal Terrier are Deep Cuts at 85. The two pearls are the Xoloitzcuintli, the hairless dog the Aztecs believed guided souls through the underworld, and the Norwegian Lundehund, which has six toes on each foot and once climbed cliffs to hunt puffins.
"Name a board game."
348 games count here. Monopoly, Scrabble, Clue, Chess and Risk are Plankton, and Catan, Battleship and Ticket to Ride are Schoolers. Go looks like a deep choice but is the Too Clever pick. Carcassonne, Azul and Wingspan score Rare, and heavy euro games such as Concordia, Brass or Food Chain Magnate are Deep Cuts. The pearls are the Royal Game of Ur, played in Mesopotamia about 4,500 years ago, and Hnefatafl, the Viking game where a king tries to escape a ring of attackers.
Adding up a dive
Imagine a morning like this: Beagle (30), Carcassonne (60), a Plankton river (10), a Deep Cut dish (85), the Too Clever planet (15), a blank because the clock ran out (0) and a pearl on the last question (100). That is 300 points, or 3,000 metres, well inside the midnight zone.
Who decides what counts
First your answer is looked up on the sheet. The lookup ignores capitals, accents, small typos, a plural ending, a leading "the" or "a" and the category word, so "Hnefatafl game" and "hnefatafl" are the same answer. If the sheet does not have it, a referee model checks two things: does it exist, and does it fit every word of the question. A yes earns a Deep Cut, since an answer that hundreds of entries missed is rare almost by definition. Each decision is saved and reused for the next player who types the same thing. If you think a call was wrong, send it to us and we will look at it.
How deep is deep
The depth scale follows the real ocean, and markers along the way tell you what lives at your depth:
- Sunlit shallows, down to 200 m: reefs, light and most sea life. Seven Plankton answers already take you to 700 m.
- Twilight zone, 200 to 1,000 m: the blue fades. Oarfish drift past at around 700 m.
- Midnight zone, 1,000 to 4,000 m: no sunlight at all. Elephant seals dive below 1,500 m, and anglerfish hunt with glowing lures.
- Abyssal zone, 4,000 to 6,000 m: near-freezing plains of mud that cover about half of the planet. You need an average of 57 points per question to get here.
- Hadal zone, 6,000 m and below: the trenches. Only Deep Cuts and pearls get you this far.
- Rock bottom, 7,000 m: seven pearls in one dive.
Today, practice and past dives
Today's dive. The main event: seven shared questions, once a day. Finish it to keep your streak. Once enough people have played, you also see how many divers gave the same answer and how many you went deeper than.
Practice. A fresh random set of seven questions whenever you want, one per theme. Practice never touches your streak, and every set has a number you can send to a friend.
Past dives. Every daily dive since dive #1 on November 11, 2026, playable from the menu with its original questions. The answers section has one page per finished day with the pearls and a sample of each tier. Today's answers are never published before the day is over.
Getting deeper
- Count to two. Whatever arrives in the first second also arrives for everyone else. Let it pass.
- Be suspicious of the quirky pick. If an answer feels famous for being strange, like the Basenji or Go, it is probably Too Clever.
- Narrow it down. Breeds, varieties, regional dishes, minor characters and model names live in Rare and Deep Cut territory.
- Play your home field. Your work, hobbies, home town and family background hold answers the crowd will never type.
- Respect the rule. A brilliant answer with the wrong first letter scores zero. A safe Rare beats a risky gamble.
- Mind the air. 25 seconds is enough for two ideas, not for five. A blank is the most expensive answer of all.
- Study the sheets. After each dive, skim the Rare and Deep Cut lists. Patterns repeat across questions of the same kind.
Questions
Is Krillion Daily the official Krillion?
No. Krillion Daily is a fan-made game that borrows the rare-answer idea. It has no connection to krillion.io, and every question, answer sheet, text and drawing on this site was made for it.
What happens if I type something that is not on the answer sheet?
A referee model checks whether your answer is real and fits every word of the question. If it does, you get a Deep Cut worth 85 points. The decision is saved, so the next player with the same answer gets the same result.
Are typos forgiven?
Mostly. Capitals, accents, a missing letter or two, a plural ending and a leading "the" are ignored. Alternative names that are in common use are on the sheet too, so Alsatian finds German Shepherd.
Can I play yesterday's dive?
Yes. Open Past dives from the menu and pick any day since dive #1. You play it with the same questions and the same scoring, and it does not change your streak.
Does it work on a phone or a school Chromebook?
Yes. It is a website, so any up-to-date browser will do, and there is nothing to install. Some school networks block games; we do not run mirrors to get around that.
Does it cost anything?
No. Every mode and every answer page is free, and you never need an account.