Krillion, but Endless — Krillion Unlimited
Krillion is a daily trivia game where the answer nobody else thought of scores highest. Seven open prompts, one answer each, and a score set by how rare your pick turns out to be. This page explains how the scoring really works, what each rarity tier means, and how to play Krillion unlimited instead of stopping after one dive a day.
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What is Krillion?
Krillion is a free daily game built on an unusual idea: the answer is not judged right or wrong, it is judged by how few other players gave it. Each day opens a fresh set of seven prompts, the same seven for every player in the world. For each one you type a single answer inside a short time limit, and the game sorts what you wrote into a rarity tier. Common answers barely move you. Obscure but valid answers send you deep.
That structure is what separates Krillion from a normal quiz. There is nothing to memorise and no correct answer to retrieve — the skill is reading the prompt's boundaries and finding something that fits them while staying out of everyone else's reach. It is closer to a word-association game than to a trivia test, which is why the same player can score 40 one day and 400 the next.
The game runs at krillion.io, updates once a day, and needs no account to start. Themed packs, an archive of past dives, and an unlimited mode sit alongside the daily dive.
What the six rarity tiers mean
When your answer is accepted, it lands in one of six tiers. The tier is not a grade — it is a headcount. Every tier above Plankton means fewer players wrote what you wrote.
| Tier | Points | Depth |
|---|---|---|
| One in a Krillion | 100 | 1,000 m |
| Deep Cut | 85 | 850 m |
| Rare | 60 | 600 m |
| Schooler | 30 | 300 m |
| Too Clever | 15 | 150 m |
| Plankton | 10 | 100 m |
Too Clever is the tier that trips people up. An answer lands there when it feels obscure to you but was still common enough among all players to miss the rarer bands. It scores just five points above Plankton — less than half of Schooler. If you keep landing there, you are being inventive in a direction thousands of others also took.
Rare is the first realistic target. It scores double a Schooler answer, and it is usually reachable with one deliberate step past your first instinct. Deep Cut is a genuinely uncommon pick from a narrower corner of the category. One in a Krillion is the top band, and it is not available every day: on plenty of boards, the best answer recorded is a Deep Cut. Treat that tier as an exception, not a daily expectation.
Tiers are assigned per prompt, not per player or per word. The same word can score differently on different prompts, because what decides the tier is how many people typed it for that specific prompt.
Daily Dive vs Unlimited
Daily Dive
The Daily Dive is the main mode: one set of seven prompts per day, the same for everyone, and once you have submitted all seven, the day is done. That single-shot design is the point — it puts you on the same board as every other player and makes the score comparable. You cannot replay it, you cannot take back an answer, and you cannot see the day's answers until you have played.
Unlimited
Unlimited removes the wait. It is the same game with the daily limit taken off, so you can keep diving after your official round is finished, or practise the format on days when you want more than seven prompts. Use it to build a feel for the rarity bands: after a few rounds you start predicting which answers are too common before you type them.
If you are chasing a score, play the daily first and keep unlimited for practice — the daily is the run that counts on the board.
How to score higher
1. Do not type your first answer
Your first instinct is the most common answer in the room — that is what makes it the first instinct. On a prompt like "name a TV genre," the answers people reach for are crime, drama, comedy, horror, and those sit at the bottom of the board. Say your first answer silently, then discard it and keep looking.
2. Read the prompt's edge, not its centre
Prompts are broader than they look. "Name something sold in a tube" is not asking for toothpaste; that is just the centre of the category. The high-scoring answers live at the edges, where the prompt is still satisfied but the obvious associations do not apply. Spend the first few seconds working out the boundary of what is allowed.
3. Go regional or historical
The named records that score deepest are usually specific and old: a national variant, a regional term, a genre label that was current for a decade and then faded. General knowledge is common knowledge; a precise, dated, place-bound answer is not.
4. Stay valid, and do not fight the clock
An answer that is merely strange does not score. If it does not fit the prompt, it counts for nothing regardless of how obscure it is. And mis-typing costs more than it seems: the game asks you to confirm a correction before submitting, and that confirmation eats into your time. Decide fast, type it cleanly, move on.
Krillion FAQ
What is Krillion?
Krillion is a free daily game at krillion.io where seven open prompts are answered once per day. Answers are not scored right or wrong — they are scored by rarity. The fewer players who gave your answer, the deeper your dive and the higher your score.
How do you play Krillion?
You get seven prompts in one run, the same seven for every player that day. You type one answer per prompt inside the time limit, and the game accepts or rejects each one. There is no way to go back and change an answer once it is submitted.
How is Krillion scored?
Every accepted answer is sorted into a rarity tier based on how many other players submitted the same thing, and each tier carries a fixed point value. Points convert to depth at ten metres per point. Answers the game does not recognise score nothing, no matter how obscure they are.
What are the six rarity tiers?
From most crowded to rarest: Plankton (10 points), Too Clever (15), Schooler (30), Rare (60), Deep Cut (85), and One in a Krillion (100). Your total for the day also maps onto a bearing, with 450 points and above putting you in the top band.
What is Krillion Unlimited?
Unlimited is the same game without the once-a-day limit. The daily dive is the round that counts on the board; unlimited lets you keep playing afterwards, or practise the format when one set of seven prompts is not enough.
How is unlimited different from the daily dive?
The daily dive is identical for every player in the world, is playable once, and produces the score that gets compared. Unlimited has no waiting period and no once-a-day restriction, so it is the place to experiment and build a feel for the rarity bands.
Is it free? Do I need an account?
The daily dive is free and you can start playing without signing up.
Is there a Krillion archive?
The game keeps a record of dives you have already played so you can look back at them. Past prompts and the answers other players gave are also published per dive, which is what answer guides are built from.
How do I score higher?
Discard your first answer, read the edge of the prompt rather than its centre, and favour precise, regional, or dated answers over general ones. Then make sure the answer still fits the prompt — obscure but invalid scores nothing.
How many prompts, and how long do I get?
Seven prompts in a daily dive, each answered once, inside a per-prompt time limit.
Today's answers & archive
Looking for today's Krillion answers, or trying to check a prompt you have already played? The daily answer sheets are here.
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