Movies prompt
Name a movie about aliens — Best Krillion Answers
Facing “Name a movie about aliens” 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: Arrival — specific, valid, and uncommon enough for Deep Cut or better.
Avoid (Plankton): E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial — correct, but the crowd's first thought.
One in a Krillion — 100 pts
The rarest valid answers — maximum depth.
Arrival · District 9
Deep Cut — 85 pts
Extremely rare picks most players miss.
Close Encounters of the Third Kind · The Day the Earth Stood Still
Rare — 60 pts
Genuinely uncommon — strong scoring.
Men in Black · Independence Day
Schooler — 30 pts
Known but not top-of-mind.
Avatar · Predator
Too Clever — 15 pts
A bit too obvious.
Alien
Plankton — 10 pts
The crowd's default — avoid these.
E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial
How to play this prompt
Strategy notes specific to “Name a movie about aliens” — not generic advice.
Movie prompts split the crowd between blockbusters and deep cuts — the blockbusters are always Plankton.
Your edge here is Arrival: 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 Close Encounters of the Third Kind as your backup — same logic, different answer.
The trap is E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial — correct, but it's the reflex answer for a reason: it's the first thing the category suggests. Alien is the same story. Typing either one puts you shoulder-to-shoulder with most of the player base at 10 points.
The middle of the bank tells the real story: Men in Black lands in Rare while E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial sits in Plankton — same prompt, wildly different rarity. That gap is exactly where the points hide.
Rare answers travel in packs: if The Day the Earth Stood Still comes to mind, Independence Day and Close Encounters of the Third Kind are usually one thought away. Train yourself to pull the whole cluster, not just the first name that surfaces.
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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