Krillion — How the Daily Dive Works | NewGameDrops
Krillion is a daily answering game with a simple twist that changes everything: rare answers are worth more. Every day poses the same seven prompts to every player — name a country with a large coastline, a movie with a one-word title, that kind of thing. Obvious answers barely count; obscure answers that the game still accepts sink you deeper down the board. One in a krillion, as the tagline goes, is the score you are hunting.
How a round works
You get the seven prompts and one attempt to type answers into each. The game maintains a long list of accepted answers per prompt, and each accepted answer carries a value based on how rarely players pick it. Guess the consensus answer and you sink a centimetre; guess something the graders had to squint at and you drop a metre. After seven prompts your total depth is the day's score, and the same seven prompts go to everyone, which makes the post-round comparison brutal and addictive.
The page type this game needs
Because Krillion accepts many answers, "today's answer" pages are really rare-answer shopping lists: for each of the seven prompts, which accepted answers are obscure enough to score, and roughly how deep they drop you. That is what our Krillion coverage is being built around — a daily dive page with the seven prompts, deep-but-verified answers for each, and a note on why an answer scores the way it does. We would rather publish fewer verified answers than pad the page with guesses the game rejects.
Tips for going deep
- Specific beats famous. "Norway" is everyone's coastline reflex; "Belize" is a dive. The accepted-answer lists reward the second kind of memory.
- Answer the weird prompts first. Depth compounds — the prompts most players fumble are where a strange-but-valid answer separates you from the field.
- Watch the rejects. Anything the game refuses teaches you the grader's taste; keep a private list of accepted obscurities and your dives get deeper every week.
- Same prompts, global players. Everyone shares the day's seven, so a genuinely rare answer today may be tomorrow's consensus — strike while it is still obscure.
Check the All Games page for the rest of the daily lineup, and the homepage for today's playable pick.