How to play Noillirk Unlimited
Noillirk Unlimited turns the rare-answer idea upside down. Each prompt asks you to name one thing in a category, and instead of hunting for something obscure, you try to say exactly what everyone else would say. The more common your answer, the higher you climb. A Noillirk Unlimited climb has seven prompts, and your score is the total height you reach.
- Read the prompt, for example Name a dog breed.
- Type one answer and press Climb (or Enter). You have 30 seconds.
- If the answer is not on our list, nothing is lost: try another one before the clock runs out.
- A correct answer lifts you between 10 and 1,000 metres, depending on how common it is.
- After each answer you see the top of the board, then climb on to the next prompt.
It sounds easy until you try it. Several answers usually feel equally obvious, and only one of them sits at the very top. The skill is guessing the crowd, not showing off what you know.
Height bands in Noillirk Unlimited
Every answer is worth between 10 and 1,000 metres. Only the single top answer reaches the summit; the rest of the top ten fill the camps below it. Seven prompts make a full climb, so a perfect daily climb reaches 7,000 metres.
| Band | Height per answer | What it means |
|---|---|---|
| Summit | 1,000 m | The top answer. Everyone was thinking it. |
| High camp | 700–990 m | Right near the top of the board. |
| Base camp | 450–690 m | On the board, a few places down. |
| Foothills | 150–440 m | Real, but most people say something else. |
| Trailhead | 0–140 m | Hardly anyone goes with that one. |
| Lost the trail | 0 m | The 30 seconds ran out before you answered. |
How Noillirk Unlimited builds each board
We do not have a survey of millions of people, so we do not pretend to. Each Noillirk Unlimited board is built in two layers. The top ten answers for every prompt are chosen by our editors as the answers most people would give first, in order. Everything below the top ten is ranked automatically by how often the name appears in everyday written English and how often its Wikipedia article is read.
Name a dog breed (600 accepted answers)
| Answer | Height |
|---|---|
| Labrador Retriever | 1,000 m |
| Golden Retriever | 900 m |
| Poodle | 750 m |
| Beagle | 590 m |
| Dachshund | 470 m |
| Australian Shepherd | 180 m |
| Yorkshire Terrier | 10 m |
Name a fruit (124 accepted answers)
| Answer | Height |
|---|---|
| Apple | 1,000 m |
| Orange | 820 m |
| Pineapple | 640 m |
| Peach | 470 m |
| Cherry | 110 m |
| Finger lime | 10 m |
We accept common spellings, alternative names and plurals, and we forgive a single typo when it can only mean one answer. If you think a board is in the wrong order, tell us with the feedback button.
Noillirk vs Krillion: the same answer, opposite scores
Noillirk Unlimited and Krillion Unlimited share prompts and answer lists, which makes the flip easy to see. Here is how the same fruit scores in each game:
| Answer | Noillirk (climb) | Krillion (dive) |
|---|---|---|
| Apple | 1,000 m up | 10 m down |
| Orange | 820 m up | 260 m down |
| Pineapple | 640 m up | 180 m down |
| Peach | 470 m up | 530 m down |
The answer that wins one game nearly loses the other. Playing both back to back is a good test of whether you can switch between thinking like the crowd and thinking around it. For a third twist, Farflung Unlimited moves the rare-answer idea onto a world map, where you pin countries instead of typing words.
All 104 Noillirk Unlimited prompts
There are 104 prompts with 15,070 accepted answers between them. The daily climb 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)
Noillirk tips for climbing higher
- Say the general word. For “Name a fruit”, apple beats Granny Smith. Specific answers spread the crowd thin.
- Go with your first thought. In Krillion you skip it; in Noillirk it is usually the right call, because it is everyone else’s first thought too.
- Think of a typical person, not yourself. Your favourite is not the crowd’s favourite. Picture the answer you would hear from a child or a grandparent.
- When two answers feel tied, pick the shorter, older one. Names that have been around for decades tend to sit above newer ones.
- Mind the clock. Any accepted answer beats running out of time, especially in Endless, where a timeout costs a rope.
Daily, Unlimited and Endless climbs
Daily climb
Seven prompts a day, the same for every player. Finish them to keep your streak going and copy your result to compare heights with friends. After a daily or unlimited climb, Challenge a friend makes a link to your exact seven prompts, and your friend sees your answers as they climb.
Noillirk Unlimited
A fresh set of seven prompts every time you start, with no daily limit.
Endless
Prompts keep coming and your height keeps adding up. You start with three ropes, and every Trailhead answer or timeout costs one. Your best endless height is saved separately.
How this differs from the original Noillirk
Noillirk is a daily game built on the idea that the most common answer wins, the reverse of Krillion. Noillirk Unlimited is PlayAnytime’s own version of that idea, with our own boards, height bands and mountain design, 30 seconds per prompt, and unlimited and endless modes.
PlayAnytime is not affiliated with or endorsed by Noillirk or its creators. Play the original at playdaily.org. Answer lists come from Wikidata (CC0) and Wikipedia.
Noillirk questions
Is Noillirk Unlimited free?
Yes. Noillirk Unlimited on PlayAnytime is free, with no account, no download and no limit on how many climbs you take.
Is there an unlimited version of Noillirk?
Yes, this page. Play the daily climb of seven prompts, then switch to Unlimited for fresh sets of seven whenever you like, or to Endless, which keeps going until your three ropes are gone.
How does Noillirk work?
You get a prompt such as “Name a fruit” and 30 seconds to answer. Any correct answer counts, but the more people would give the same answer, the higher you climb: up to 1,000 metres for the top answer and 7,000 metres for a perfect climb.
How do you decide which answers are most common?
The top ten answers on every board are picked by our editors as the answers most people would give first. Below that, answers are ranked by how often their name appears in everyday English and how often their Wikipedia article is read. These are not survey results, and we say so.
What is the difference between Noillirk and Krillion?
They are mirror images. Krillion rewards the rarest correct answer and sends you deeper; Noillirk rewards the most common one and lifts you higher. On PlayAnytime both use the same prompts and answer lists, so you can play one straight after the other.
Why was my answer not accepted?
Each prompt has a fixed list of accepted answers. Try the full name or a more common spelling. A wrong answer costs nothing but time, and the feedback button lets you tell us what we missed.
Is this the official Noillirk?
No. Noillirk Unlimited on PlayAnytime is our own take on the idea, with our own boards, scoring and design. It is not affiliated with Noillirk or its creators. You can play the original at playdaily.org.