History prompt
Name a famous pirate — Best Krillion Answers
Facing “Name a famous pirate” in a dive? Here is how to think rare: the best picks, the safe backups, and the crowd defaults to avoid. Every answer below is real and valid — rarity decides the tier.
Best rare pick: Ching Shih — specific, valid, and uncommon enough for Deep Cut or better.
Avoid (Plankton): Blackbeard, Francis Drake — correct, but the crowd's first thought.
One in a Krillion — 100 pts
The rarest valid answers — maximum depth.
Ching Shih · Charles Vane
Deep Cut — 85 pts
Extremely rare picks most players miss.
Black Sam Bellamy · Bartholomew Roberts
Rare — 60 pts
Genuinely uncommon — strong scoring.
Anne Bonny · Mary Read
Schooler — 30 pts
Known but not top-of-mind.
William Kidd · Jean Lafitte
Too Clever — 15 pts
A bit too obvious.
Henry Morgan · Calico Jack
Plankton — 10 pts
The crowd's default — avoid these.
Blackbeard · Francis Drake
How to play this prompt
Strategy notes specific to “Name a famous pirate” — not generic advice.
History prompts punish the textbook answer. Think past the bolded names.
Your edge here is Ching Shih: specific, valid, and far from the crowd's first thought. If it feels slightly too obscure to say out loud, that's usually the sign it's worth real points. Bank Black Sam Bellamy as your backup — same logic, different answer.
Blackbeard feels safe because it's obviously right. That's precisely why it's worth the least — safety is crowded. Francis Drake is the same kind of comfortable, low-scoring pick.
Anne Bonny and Jean Lafitte are the honest middle of this prompt — answers most players know but few type first. If your instinct answer feels too easy, reach for this layer instead of the obvious.
Think in clusters, not singles. Bartholomew Roberts, Mary Read, and Black Sam Bellamy sit in the same rarity band — knowing one should unlock the others when the clock is running.
Rated 4/5 difficulty — only 12 banked answers, so matching the bank is genuinely hard. Precision matters more than speed here.
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