About
About Krillion Today
Krillion Today is a small daily puzzle made by fans of rare-answer games. It is free, it needs no account and it runs in any browser, from a phone to a school Chromebook.
Unofficial, and proud of its own lists
Krillion Today is not the official Krillion game and has no connection to krillion.io. We like the format, so we built our own version: the prompts, the answer lists, the tier rankings, the facts behind every pearl and all of the artwork on this site are ours.
How a prompt is made
- Writing. A prompt has to have many correct answers, from the obvious to the deeply obscure, and a fair way to check them. "Name a type of pasta" works. "Name your favourite pasta" does not.
- Collecting answers. For every prompt we gather a long list of valid answers, often several hundred, together with the spellings and short forms people actually type.
- Ranking. The answers most people think of first become Shallows and Shoal. The famous "unusual" pick becomes the Red Herring. Everything genuinely uncommon goes to Rare and Abyss, and one or two answers per prompt are chosen as Pearls and get a short fact.
- Checking new answers. If you type something correct that is not on the list yet, an automatic referee checks it against the prompt and its rules. Correct answers score as Abyss, and we review them later for the list.
The daily schedule
Every day at midnight Eastern Time the game picks seven prompts, one from each category, from a long rotation, so a prompt usually does not come back for months. Once a day is over, its answers are published on the Answers page.
What we do not do
- No account, no sign-up and no email needed.
- No pop-ups while you play.
- No selling of your data. The privacy page lists exactly what we keep.
Get in touch
Think an answer is in the wrong tier, or that we rejected something that should count? Tell us on the contact page. Reports like that are how the lists get better.