Science prompt
Name a planet in our solar system — Best Krillion Answers
Facing “Name a planet in our solar system” 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: Eris — specific, valid, and uncommon enough for Deep Cut or better.
Avoid (Plankton): Mars, Earth, Jupiter — correct, but the crowd's first thought.
One in a Krillion — 100 pts
The rarest valid answers — maximum depth.
Eris · Makemake
Deep Cut — 85 pts
Extremely rare picks most players miss.
Haumea · Ceres
Rare — 60 pts
Genuinely uncommon — strong scoring.
Pluto · Uranus
Schooler — 30 pts
Known but not top-of-mind.
Neptune · Mercury
Too Clever — 15 pts
A bit too obvious.
Venus · Saturn
Plankton — 10 pts
The crowd's default — avoid these.
Mars · Earth · Jupiter
How to play this prompt
Strategy notes specific to “Name a planet in our solar system” — not generic advice.
Science prompts punish approximations. Name it exactly and you dive deeper.
The winning instinct on this one: skip your first thought entirely and type your second. Eris is a perfect example — completely valid, just not the reflex answer. Haumea plays the same role as a backup.
Watch out for Mars. It's valid, but validity isn't the game — rarity is. Earth has the same problem: everyone knows it, so everyone types it, so it scores like everyone.
Notice how Pluto (Rare) outscores Jupiter (Plankton) without being obscure at all. Rarity isn't about difficulty — it's about what the crowd overlooks.
Rare answers travel in packs: if Ceres comes to mind, Uranus and Haumea are usually one thought away. Train yourself to pull the whole cluster, not just the first name that surfaces.
Rated 3/5 difficulty with 13 banked answers — a balanced prompt where rare-answer thinking decides everything.
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