Animals prompt
Name a type of penguin — Best Krillion Answers
Facing “Name a type of penguin” 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: Fiordland penguin — specific, valid, and uncommon enough for Deep Cut or better.
Avoid (Plankton): Emperor penguin, African penguin — correct, but the crowd's first thought.
One in a Krillion — 100 pts
The rarest valid answers — maximum depth.
Fiordland penguin · Snares penguin
Deep Cut — 85 pts
Extremely rare picks most players miss.
Royal penguin · Macaroni penguin
Rare — 60 pts
Genuinely uncommon — strong scoring.
Chinstrap penguin · Erect-crested penguin
Schooler — 30 pts
Known but not top-of-mind.
Adelie penguin · Gentoo penguin
Too Clever — 15 pts
A bit too obvious.
Rockhopper penguin · King penguin
Plankton — 10 pts
The crowd's default — avoid these.
Emperor penguin · African penguin
How to play this prompt
Strategy notes specific to “Name a type of penguin” — not generic advice.
Animal prompts look friendly until you realize everyone names the same five creatures.
The winning instinct on this one: skip your first thought entirely and type your second. Fiordland penguin is a perfect example — completely valid, just not the reflex answer. Royal penguin plays the same role as a backup.
The trap is Emperor penguin — correct, but it's the reflex answer for a reason: it's the first thing the category suggests. African penguin 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: Chinstrap penguin lands in Rare while Emperor penguin sits in Plankton — same prompt, wildly different rarity. That gap is exactly where the points hide.
Build yourself a mental shelf for this prompt: Macaroni penguin, Erect-crested penguin, Royal penguin. They're different answers, same rarity neighborhood — and that neighborhood is where dives are won.
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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