A Painted Logbook of the Daily Dive
Seven prompts, 52,099 official answers, refreshed after every 04:00 UTC reset. Free to play at krillion.io.
Seven prompts from Dive No. 78. The smaller the official pool, the harder it is to land an answer that counts.
The depth is in the quiet in-app tools — features that got added silently and rarely got a name people repeat.
Emoji game One in a Krillion +100
Country by country beats brand by brand — regional and single-country sauces all count.
Balichão One in a Krillion +100
One of today's two huge lists. Go small and regional rather than clever.
Snowbombing One in a Krillion +100
Today's smallest pool, so it decides your run. Islands and Caucasus nations hide the rare picks.
Kittitian One in a Krillion +100
Think past banana and lemon — squash varieties, tropical fruit and heirloom veg fill the list.
Canistel One in a Krillion +100
Every messenger with a call button is in play, plus enterprise tools and services that have shut down.
Yahoo Livetext One in a Krillion +100
Today's widest list by far. The rare picks are species names where the colour hides inside the word.
Ruby Seadragon One in a Krillion +100
If you only want a nudge, read no further than the prompt you're stuck on.
The list covers posting, messaging and the small in-app tools — the depth is in features that got quietly added and rarely got a name people repeat.
Country by country beats brand by brand here. Regional and single-country sauces count, including ones most players can't spell.
One of today's two huge lists — almost anything that has run once counts. Don't burn time being clever; the rarity comes from going small and regional.
Today's smallest list, so it decides your run. Canadian and Australian are the cheap answers; most of the pool is small island and Caucasus nations, plus a few endings that trip people up.
Think beyond banana and lemon — squash varieties, tropical fruit and heirloom vegetables make up most of the list.
Every messaging app with a call button is in play, plus enterprise tools and older services that have shut down.
Today's widest list by far — blackbirds and blue whales are the cheap picks. The rarity is in the species names where the colour hides in the word.
Full answers for all seven prompts hang in Gallery I, each behind its own curtain.
Krillion gives you about 25 seconds per prompt and one Daily Dive a day. Points come from rarity, not from being clever.
| Tier | Points | Depth |
|---|---|---|
| Plankton | 10 | 100 m |
| Too Clever | 15 | 150 m |
| Schooler | 30 | 300 m |
| Rare | 60 | 600 m |
| Deep Cut | 85 | 850 m |
| One in a Krillion | 100 | 1,000 m |
One point equals ten metres of depth, so a perfect run of 700 points takes you to 7,000 m — the trench floor.
The trap: an answer can sound perfectly reasonable and still be rejected — only answers inside the official set count. The goal isn't the cleverest answer you can think of; it's an answer that's unusual but still obvious enough to be on the list.
If an answer came back low and you're not sure why, the Too Clever breakdown walks through the 15-point tier, and how Krillion scoring works covers the full arithmetic.
Krillion is a free daily trivia game played in a browser. Each day gives every player the same seven open-ended prompts, and answers are scored by how rare they are rather than by whether they are right or wrong.
Seven. You get about 25 seconds per prompt and one Daily Dive a day, and your score is turned into depth for a diver: each point equals 10 metres.
Yes. Hints4Today keeps every past Daily Dive with all seven prompts and the size of each official answer pool, so you can check a date you missed.
Yesterday's Daily Dive, with all seven prompts and the answers that scored 100.
Read yesterday →Every past Daily Dive, with all seven prompts and pool sizes — July through September.
Open the archive →The six tier values, the 700-point max, and why a rejected answer scores 0.
Study the arithmetic →The rules, the clock, and the three habits that decide your score.
Learn the rules →What the extra mode is, and how it differs from the Daily Dive.
Read the briefing →What the phrase means, and how the 100-point tier works.
Study the tier →Daily puzzle games to play next, once today's dive is done.
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