Sports prompt
Name a famous swimmer — Best Krillion Answers
Facing “Name a famous swimmer” 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: Johnny Weissmuller — specific, valid, and uncommon enough for Deep Cut or better.
Avoid (Plankton): Michael Phelps — correct, but the crowd's first thought.
One in a Krillion — 100 pts
The rarest valid answers — maximum depth.
Johnny Weissmuller · Mark Spitz
Deep Cut — 85 pts
Extremely rare picks most players miss.
Ian Thorpe · Dara Torres
Rare — 60 pts
Genuinely uncommon — strong scoring.
Ryan Lochte · Caeleb Dressel
Schooler — 30 pts
Known but not top-of-mind.
Adam Peaty · Simone Manuel
Too Clever — 15 pts
A bit too obvious.
Katie Ledecky
Plankton — 10 pts
The crowd's default — avoid these.
Michael Phelps
How to play this prompt
Strategy notes specific to “Name a famous swimmer” — not generic advice.
Sports prompts reward the fan who watches beyond the highlights — the famous names are all Plankton.
Lead with Johnny Weissmuller. It's the kind of answer that makes other players say 'I knew that!' after the reveal — which is exactly why they didn't type it. Ian Thorpe works the same way if you want a second bullet in the chamber.
Watch out for Michael Phelps. It's valid, but validity isn't the game — rarity is. Katie Ledecky has the same problem: everyone knows it, so everyone types it, so it scores like everyone.
The middle of the bank tells the real story: Ryan Lochte lands in Rare while Michael Phelps sits in Plankton — same prompt, wildly different rarity. That gap is exactly where the points hide.
Build yourself a mental shelf for this prompt: Dara Torres, Caeleb Dressel, Ian Thorpe. They're different answers, same rarity neighborhood — and that neighborhood is where dives are won.
Rated 4/5 difficulty — only 10 banked answers, so matching the bank is genuinely hard. Precision matters more than speed here.
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