Krillion Infinite

Krillion is a game rather than a page about a game, so here is one round of it. The prompt below is not one of today's seven and it spends nothing: type a cheese, and Krillion scores it against the same bank the daily dive is scored against.

Name a cheese

Your answer to the Krillion practice prompt type a cheese SCORE IT Cheddar pays 10 points. Taleggio pays 85. Both take three seconds to type, and that gap is the whole of Krillion.

That is one round. A full dive is seven of them against a 25-second clock, and you get one dive a day.

PLAY TODAY'S KRILLION DIVE

What Krillion actually asks you Most word games reward you for knowing an answer. Krillion assumes you know one and asks a harder question: is it yours, or is it the answer a thousand other people typed into the same box this morning? A Krillion prompt reads name a cheese. Cheddar is correct and pays 10 points. Taleggio is correct and pays 85. Both take three seconds to type. That gap is the entire design of Krillion.

This is why a first Krillion dive so often reads like a failing grade. Seven correct answers can land you at 70 points out of a possible 700, and nothing was wrong with any of them — they were simply the answers everyone gives. Fixing that is one habit rather than more knowledge, and it is what the Krillion strategy page is for.

How to play Krillion Press BEGIN DIVE. Krillion puts up the first prompt and a 25-second clock starts immediately. Type an answer and submit it. A hit ends the round and sinks you by whatever it was worth. A miss costs you a slice of the clock, not the round, so guessing is correct play. Seven rounds later Krillion gives you a depth in metres, a band, and an emoji strip you can share. Krillion matches answers loosely and on purpose. A missing accent, a doubled letter, a stray plural, British spelling against American — all of it still lands. You are being scored on what you thought of, not on whether you can spell it under a clock. The full rules are on how to play.

What each Krillion tier pays Every answer in a prompt's bank is filed by how widely known it is, and that filing is what pays you. Krillion has six tiers, and one point buys four metres of descent.

Bar chart of the six Krillion scoring tiers: Plankton 10 points and 40 m, Too Clever 15 points and 60 m, Schooler 30 and 120 m, Rare 60 and 240 m, Deep Cut 85 and 340 m, One in a Krillion 100 points and 400 m. The six Krillion tiers. The step from the answer everyone gives to one they do not is worth 75 points, and Krillion pays it the moment you take it. The six Krillion scoring tiers, their point values, and the depth each buys. Tier What it means Points Depth 🌟 One in a Krillion The single designated answer for that prompt 100 400 m 🦑 Deep Cut True obscurity. Few dives go here. 85 340 m 🐙 Rare Genuinely uncommon 60 240 m 🐟 Schooler Solid. Swims with the school. 30 120 m 🤡 Too Clever The famously “obscure” pick everyone reaches for 15 60 m 🫧 Plankton The answer everyone blurts out 10 40 m Only three or four answers per prompt sit in Plankton — the handful a room full of people would shout in unison. Step off those and Krillion pays you properly straight away. Close to four fifths of every bank is worth the full 85, because the hard part is not being obscure, it is thinking of anything at all inside 25 seconds. Krillion scoring has the shares each tier is cut at and the band thresholds.

Depth, not a mark out of 700 A Krillion dive is reported in metres rather than as a score, because metres are the thing you feel. Seven perfect answers would be 700 points and 2,800 m of water, which is the trench floor, and nobody reaches it. The five bands you pass on the way down — Shallows, Schooler, Thermocline, Deep Cut, Trench — are pinned to real places in the water column rather than to round numbers.