How to Play Krillion: Daily Rules, Scoring & Tips (2026)

A Krillion dive is exactly seven prompts. Each one asks you to name a single thing — a country, a movie, a dog breed, a breakfast cereal — and you get one answer per prompt. No multiple choice, no second guesses, no partial credit: one prompt, one answer, locked in when the timer ends.

Prompts rotate across eight categories: geography, food, movies, sports, music, science, animals, and history. A single dive usually mixes five to seven of them, so a geography specialist still has to survive a sports prompt. That mix is deliberate — real krillion strategy is mostly about knowing where your personal rarity edges are across categories.

• Geography — countries, cities, rivers, landmarks
• Food — dishes, ingredients, cuisines, snacks
• Movies — films, actors, directors, characters
• Sports — teams, athletes, events, equipment
• Music — artists, bands, songs, instruments
• Science — elements, animals by class, inventors
• Animals — species, breeds, habitats
• History — figures, events, eras, inventions

The clock starts the moment a prompt appears: 25 seconds to think and type. You can change your answer as many times as you like while time remains — only the text in the box when the timer hits zero counts. When time runs out, the answer locks automatically and the next prompt appears.

Blank or late answers score 0 points and add nothing to your depth. The timer is per prompt, not per dive, so a slow start on prompt one never steals time from prompt seven. Treat the first 15 seconds as thinking time and the last 10 as commit time — panic-typing at second 23 is how good answers turn into typos.

Close spellings count when the meaning is unambiguous, so a slipped key will not sink you. A genuinely wrong answer, though, is a wrong answer: it lands outside the answer bank and scores zero, the same as leaving the box blank.

Scoring is pure survey math. Once thousands of players have answered a prompt, every distinct answer is ranked by the share of players who gave it, and that share decides its tier. Give the answer everyone gave and you surface at Plankton; give the one almost nobody found and you hit Krillion.

The tier names are a depth chart: plankton floats at the surface where everyone can see it, and krillion sits at the bottom where almost nobody goes. Tiers are set by real player data, not by how hard a question feels — an “easy” prompt can still hide a Krillion-tier answer.

Points are only half the story. Your seven answers add up to a maximum of 700 points, and every point sinks you 10 meters. A middling 350-point dive lands at 3,500 meters; a perfect 700-point dive bottoms out at 7,000 meters — squarely in the ocean’s twilight zone, where sunlight barely reaches.

Depth is the number you compare with friends and the number your streak is built on. Two players can both answer every prompt “correctly” and finish at totally different depths, because depth measures rarity, not correctness. Track it daily: the goal is not perfection, it is sinking a little deeper than yesterday.

The daily dive resets at 12:00 AM Eastern Time, every day, no exceptions. Miss the window and that day’s prompts are gone — there are no make-ups, which is exactly what makes a streak mean something. Daylight saving changes are already baked in: “midnight ET” means Eastern, whatever the season calls it.

Playing consecutive days builds your streak, shown next to your depth on the home screen. Streaks do not change scoring, but they are the game’s memory — a 30-day streak says you showed up. If you travel across time zones, the reset still follows Eastern Time, so set expectations accordingly.

Prompt: “Name a planet.” Earth and Mars are the first answers most people reach for — Plankton and Schooler, 10 to 30 points. Saturn and Jupiter sit mid-pack. Neptune and Uranus, the ones you have to think for, land in Deep Cut and Krillion territory at 85 to 100 points. Same prompt, six tiers, decided entirely by what the crowd did.

Prompt: “Name a U.S. state starting with M.” Michigan is the Plankton answer — nearly everyone types it first. Minnesota and Missouri pull you into Schooler and Clever. Maryland and Montana are genuinely rare. Mississippi, the eighth M-state most people forget exists, is your Krillion. The pattern repeats on every prompt: the first answer you think of is the one to beat, not the one to give.

You do not need all seven on day one. Pick two or three, run them for a week, and watch your average depth climb. Every tip below is a shortcut to the deeper tiers without any extra trivia knowledge.

1. Your first instinct is everyone’s first instinct — pause before you type it, then go one step past it.
2. Spend 12 seconds thinking, 8 typing, and 5 double-checking your spelling before the lock.
3. Go one level deeper than the obvious: not “dog,” a breed; not a breed, an uncommon breed.
4. Regional and family answers are rarity gold — your grandmother’s casserole beats “lasagna.”
5. Avoid textbook answers. Anything you learned in school, everyone learned in school.
6. An answer nobody recognizes scores zero — aim for rare, not random. (See the too-clever trap.)
7. Warm up in unlimited mode first — ten practice prompts beat ten anxious seconds.