Animals prompt
Name a type of crab — Best Krillion Answers
Facing “Name a type of crab” 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: Japanese spider crab — specific, valid, and uncommon enough for Deep Cut or better.
Avoid (Plankton): Crab, Mud crab — correct, but the crowd's first thought.
One in a Krillion — 100 pts
The rarest valid answers — maximum depth.
Japanese spider crab · Coconut crab
Deep Cut — 85 pts
Extremely rare picks most players miss.
Horseshoe crab · Red king crab
Rare — 60 pts
Genuinely uncommon — strong scoring.
Blue crab · Dungeness crab
Schooler — 30 pts
Known but not top-of-mind.
Hermit crab · Fiddler crab
Too Clever — 15 pts
A bit too obvious.
Snow crab · Stone crab
Plankton — 10 pts
The crowd's default — avoid these.
Crab · Mud crab
How to play this prompt
Strategy notes specific to “Name a type of crab” — not generic advice.
The zoo favorites are all Plankton. Rare answers live in the less-photographed corners of the animal kingdom.
Your edge here is Japanese spider crab: 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 Horseshoe crab as your backup — same logic, different answer.
The trap is Crab — correct, but it's the reflex answer for a reason: it's the first thing the category suggests. Mud crab 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: Blue crab lands in Rare while Crab sits in Plankton — same prompt, wildly different rarity. That gap is exactly where the points hide.
Rare answers travel in packs: if Red king crab comes to mind, Dungeness crab and Horseshoe crab are usually one thought away. Train yourself to pull the whole cluster, not just the first name that surfaces.
Rated 2/5 difficulty — 12 banked answers give you room to match, so the real skill is picking the rare ones, not just valid ones.
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