How to play Krillion Unlimited
Krillion Unlimited is a quick trivia game where obvious answers are worth almost nothing. Each prompt asks you to name one thing in a category, and the less familiar your answer, the deeper your diver sinks. A Krillion Unlimited dive has seven prompts, and your score is the total depth you reach.
- Read the prompt, for example Name a fruit.
- Type one answer and press Dive (or Enter). You have 30 seconds.
- If the answer is not on our list, nothing is lost: try another one while the clock is still running.
- A correct answer drops you between 10 and 1,000 metres, depending on how rare it is.
- After each answer you see the answers most people give and a few deep picks, then dive on to the next prompt.
The game is not about knowing the right answer. Almost everyone can name a fruit. It is about digging past the first five that come to mind, fast, and landing on something real that few other people would think of.
Depth bands in Krillion Unlimited
Every answer is worth between 10 and 1,000 metres. The band tells you roughly how deep it went. Seven prompts make a full dive, so the deepest possible daily dive is 7,000 metres.
| Band | Depth per answer | What it means |
|---|---|---|
| Trench | 1,000 m | Nobody else is down here. |
| Abyss | 900–990 m | Almost nobody thinks of that one. |
| Midnight | 700–890 m | Deep. Most players never get here. |
| Twilight | 400–690 m | A good, uncommon pick. |
| Reef | 150–390 m | Plenty of others said it too. |
| Splash | 0–140 m | The first answer on everyone’s lips. |
| Out of air | 0 m | The 30 seconds ran out before you answered. |
How Krillion Unlimited measures rare answers
A game about rare answers needs an honest way to say what is rare. Krillion Unlimited uses Wikipedia. Every accepted answer is a Wikipedia article, and we count how many times that article was read over the last 12 months. Popular answers are read millions of times; obscure ones a few hundred.
Your depth is the share of all those reads that went to answers more popular than yours. Name the single most-read answer and almost everyone is ahead of you, so you barely leave the surface. Name something only a sliver of readers ever look up and you sink close to the full 1,000 metres. Here is how that plays out for two real prompts:
Name a dog breed (600 accepted answers)
| Answer | Depth |
|---|---|
| Cane Corso | 10 m |
| Rottweiler | 60 m |
| Chow Chow | 160 m |
| Siberian Husky | 330 m |
| Rat Terrier | 550 m |
| Techichi | 780 m |
Name a fruit (124 accepted answers)
| Answer | Depth |
|---|---|
| Apple | 10 m |
| Strawberry | 150 m |
| Mangosteen | 360 m |
| Bergamot orange | 630 m |
| Chokeberry | 870 m |
Answer lists come from Wikidata and from lists we checked by hand. We accept common spellings, alternative names and plurals, and we forgive a single typo when it can only mean one answer.
All 104 Krillion Unlimited prompts
There are 104 prompts with 15,070 accepted answers between them, from animals and food to films, science and sport. The daily dive picks seven of them; Unlimited and Endless draw from all of them.
- Name a Beatles song (214)
- Name a bird (294)
- Name a board game (74)
- Name a bone in the human body (67)
- Name a breakfast food (130)
- Name a British prime minister (64)
- Name a candy or chocolate bar (143)
- Name a capital city (203)
- Name a car brand (115)
- Name a card game (71)
- Name a cat breed (100)
- Name a cheese (84)
- Name a chemical element (164)
- Name a city of over a million people (502)
- Name a city that has hosted the Olympics (42)
- Name a classical composer (145)
- Name a cocktail (93)
- Name a coffee drink (66)
- Name a colour (110)
- Name a constellation (87)
- Name a country (197)
- Name a currency (192)
- Name a dance (149)
- Name a DC Comics character (67)
- Name a dessert (154)
- Name a dinosaur (172)
- Name a Disney animated movie (92)
- Name a dog breed (600)
- Name a fabric (118)
- Name a fairy tale (107)
- Name a famous landmark (179)
- Name a famous painter (173)
- Name a fast food chain (65)
- Name a flower (146)
- Name a Formula One driver (78)
- Name a fruit (124)
- Name a Game of Thrones character (51)
- Name a Greek god or goddess (272)
- Name a hand tool (117)
- Name a Harry Potter character (22)
- Name a herb or spice (94)
- Name a horse breed (224)
- Name a kitchen utensil (106)
- Name a lake (115)
- Name a language (178)
- Name a Lord of the Rings character (54)
- Name a mammal (282)
- Name a martial art (75)
- Name a Michael Jackson song (103)
- Name a mineral (102)
- Name a moon in our solar system (258)
- Name a mountain (263)
- Name a musical instrument (171)
- Name a mythical creature (162)
- Name a Nintendo game (66)
- Name a noodle dish (85)
- Name a nut (38)
- Name a Pixar movie (67)
- Name a Pokémon (1,171)
- Name a programming language (137)
- Name a Queen song (98)
- Name a river (357)
- Name a rock band (130)
- Name a Roman emperor (102)
- Name a sandwich (109)
- Name a sauce or condiment (120)
- Name a sea creature (162)
- Name a Shakespeare play (42)
- Name a shape (105)
- Name a Simpsons character (136)
- Name a social media app (115)
- Name a soup (102)
- Name a species of shark (324)
- Name a sport (140)
- Name a stage musical (117)
- Name a Star Wars character (81)
- Name a Stephen King book (179)
- Name a style of beer (55)
- Name a Summer Olympic sport (89)
- Name a Taylor Swift song (198)
- Name a tech company (168)
- Name a tree (129)
- Name a type of bread (102)
- Name a type of cookie or biscuit (85)
- Name a type of hat (96)
- Name a type of pasta (68)
- Name a type of shoe (95)
- Name a US national park (69)
- Name a US president (54)
- Name a US state (50)
- Name a vegetable (120)
- Name a video game console (83)
- Name a volcano (246)
- Name a wine grape (130)
- Name a winter sport (60)
- Name an airline (108)
- Name an American sitcom (166)
- Name an insect (137)
- Name an island (277)
- Name an item of clothing (166)
- Name an NBA team (35)
- Name an NFL team (32)
- Name an organ of the human body (95)
- Name something in space (144)
Krillion tips for diving deeper
- Skip your first thought. If it came to you instantly, it came to everyone else too. The second or third idea is usually worth several hundred metres more.
- Think in subgroups. For “Name a dog breed”, jump to a country or a job: Hungarian herding dogs, Japanese hunting dogs. Specific corners of a category hide the deep answers.
- Use what you know well. A hobby, a holiday, a grandparent’s kitchen. Answers that are everyday to you are often rare for everyone else.
- Don’t get too clever. Famous oddities are famous for a reason. For “Name a mammal”, the platypus sits at just 150 metres, because everyone reads about it. Real depth comes from things people simply don’t look up.
- Mind the clock. A shallow answer still beats running out of air. If you are stuck at ten seconds left, take the safe answer.
Daily dive, Unlimited and Endless
Daily dive
Seven prompts a day, the same for every player. Finish them to keep your streak going and copy your result to compare depths with friends, or send a challenge link so a friend plays your exact set: see Krillion multiplayer.
Krillion Unlimited
A fresh set of seven prompts every time you start, with no daily limit and no waiting for tomorrow.
Endless
Prompts keep coming and your depth keeps adding up. You start with three tanks of air, and every answer in the Splash band or every timeout costs one. Your best endless depth is saved separately.
How this differs from the original Krillion
Krillion is an independent daily game built around the idea that rare answers sink deeper. Krillion Unlimited is PlayAnytime’s own version of that idea. The original ranks answers by what its players type; ours ranks them by Wikipedia page views, with our own prompts, depth bands and design, plus unlimited and endless modes.
Want the opposite challenge? Noillirk Unlimited uses the same prompts but rewards the most common answer instead of the rarest. Prefer maps? Farflung Unlimited brings the same rare-answer idea to geography: pin a country that fits the prompt, and the less obvious the country, the further you fly.
Looking for more games like Krillion? Our list of games like Krillion covers free daily trivia games that reward rare answers, games about what is common, and quick daily quizzes.
PlayAnytime is not affiliated with or endorsed by Krillion or its creators. Play the original at krillion.io. Rarity data comes from Wikipedia page views and Wikidata (CC0).
Krillion questions
Is Krillion Unlimited free?
Yes. Krillion Unlimited on PlayAnytime is free to play, with no account, no download and no limit on how many dives you take.
Is there an unlimited version of Krillion?
Yes, this page. Play the daily dive of seven prompts, then switch to Unlimited for fresh sets of seven whenever you like, or to Endless, which keeps going until your air runs out.
How does Krillion work?
You get a prompt such as “Name a dog breed” and 30 seconds to answer. Any correct answer counts, but the less familiar it is, the deeper you dive: up to 1,000 metres per prompt and 7,000 metres for a full dive.
How do you decide which answers are rare?
Every accepted answer is a Wikipedia article. We rank answers by how often their article was read over the last 12 months, so famous answers sit near the surface and answers few people look up sit deep down.
Why was my answer not accepted?
Each prompt has a fixed list of accepted answers. If yours is missing, try a more common spelling or the full name. You can keep trying until the timer runs out, and the feedback button lets you tell us what we missed.
What is a good Krillion score?
Anything past 3,500 metres on a daily dive is a strong result. Reaching 5,000 metres means most of your answers were in the Midnight band or deeper.
Is this the official Krillion?
No. Krillion Unlimited on PlayAnytime is our own take on the idea, with our own prompts, scoring data and design. It is not affiliated with Krillion or its creators. You can play the original at krillion.io.