How to Play Krillion

Krillion is a daily guessing game from krillion.io. In its own words: seven prompts a day, same for everyone; rare answers sink you deeper, obvious ones barely count. The aim is to find the answer that is one in a krillion.

The daily dive

Every day everyone gets the same seven prompts. Each prompt accepts many correct answers, but they are not worth the same: the more obvious the answer, the less it counts, and the rarer the answer, the deeper it takes you.

The daily puzzle resets at midnight US Eastern time.

How rarity is judged

According to the Krillion FAQ, each prompt's answer list is built by pulling together sources such as dictionaries, wiki pages and encyclopedias, then merging and cleaning the results.

Some prompts are scored against a familiarity database — how often a word or name actually turns up — while others use a mix of model assistance and manual review.

The "Krillion" itself is not simply the rarest possible answer. Past a certain depth rarity is hard to measure, so the featured answer is also picked for fun: something at least a few players will actually land on.

Spelling and accepted answers

Krillion accepts aliases and autocorrects close spellings, so a guess that is a letter or two off can still match — sometimes a different alias than you meant.

Game modes

Daily dive — the seven shared prompts of the day.
Unlimited — a separate mode from the daily dive, for playing outside the once-a-day schedule.
Archive — go back to earlier daily dives.
Puffer Party — a pass-the-puffer party game with a shared timer and a hidden fuse (10 to 30 seconds by default); passing the puffer carries the remaining time over, with an 8-second floor, and a new random fuse starts after each pop.
Themed packs — extra prompt sets on specific topics.

Strategy for going deeper

Skip the first thing that comes to mind. If it came to you instantly, it probably came to everyone — and obvious answers barely count.
Go one level more specific. Instead of a famous example, think of the second- or third-tier members of the same category.
Use what you know that others don't. Hobbies, home towns and niche interests are where rare answers live.
Check the spelling, but don't fear it. Close spellings are often accepted, so commit to a rare answer even if you are unsure how it's spelled.

Using the hints on HintPuzzle

Our daily Krillion page shows how rare the top answers are for each of the day's prompts before revealing any of them, then keeps the rarest answers face-down until you hold the answer tile.