These Krillion hints help you find each answer yourself. Every step stays closed until you open it, and no step shows an answer.
Fairly narrow: about 110 accepted answers. Category: Food & drink. A good share of the obvious answers count, but not all.
Move from the home kitchen to the restaurant menu, then to the street stall.
It starts with C and has 3 words.
C··· de m··
Each dot is a hidden letter. Short words are shown in full.
Fairly narrow: about 130 accepted answers. Category: Everyday life. A good share of the obvious answers count, but not all.
Move from the obvious object to the thing next to it.
It starts with H and has 1 word.
H·········
Each dot is a hidden letter. Short words are shown in full.
Fairly narrow: about 170 accepted answers. Category: Food & drink. A good share of the obvious answers count, but not all.
Think about how other countries handle the same ingredient.
It starts with F and has 2 words.
F····· 1···
Each dot is a hidden letter. Short words are shown in full.
Fairly narrow: about 140 accepted answers. Category: Sports. A good share of the obvious answers count, but not all.
Think about the sports that get attention once every four years.
It starts with P and has 1 word.
P········
Each dot is a hidden letter. Short words are shown in full.
Fairly narrow: about 130 accepted answers. Category: Sports. A good share of the obvious answers count, but not all.
Try a sport from a country other than your own.
It starts with K and has 2 words.
K··· s····
Each dot is a hidden letter. Short words are shown in full.
Fairly narrow: about 160 accepted answers. Category: Film & TV. A good share of the obvious answers count, but not all.
Try a title from a decade you do not usually think about.
It starts with H and has 2 words.
H···· G····
Each dot is a hidden letter. Short words are shown in full.
Fairly narrow: about 190 accepted answers. Category: Music. A good share of the obvious answers count, but not all.
Try a different decade from the one that came to mind first.
It starts with P and has 3 words.
P··· & B··
Each dot is a hidden letter. Short words are shown in full.
A good hint should narrow your search without ending it. Our Krillion hints follow that idea. The first step is about the question itself, so you know how much room there is to wander. The second step suggests a direction, such as moving from the obvious group to the quieter one beside it. Only the third and fourth steps say anything about the rarest answer, and they say as little as possible.
Open the steps in order. The later steps are locked until the earlier ones are open, so you cannot spoil yourself by accident. When you have opened all four, a link appears that takes you straight to that prompt on the answers today page.
Most prompts have a very large pool of acceptable answers, and the rare ones come from the edges. A few habits help. Say your first idea out loud and then set it aside, because it is probably what everyone else will type. Think about the category behind the prompt and choose a smaller group inside it. Then pick a member of that group that you know well, because confident knowledge beats a clever guess.
The first hint tells you whether the prompt is wide open or narrow. On a wide-open prompt, aim for something specific and slightly unusual. On a narrow prompt, accuracy matters more than creativity, so go for the most precise answer you are sure about.
If you want more practice with these skills, Krillion Unlimited lets you play as many rounds as you like and shows rarer answers after each one. The more rounds you play, the easier it becomes to spot where rare answers come from.
No. The hints never show an answer. The most revealing step gives the first letter and the number of words of the rarest answer, and the last one shows the rough shape of its letters. The page source is built the same way, so nothing is hidden behind a click that you could find by viewing it.
Each prompt has four steps. The first tells you how open the question is and which category it belongs to. The second points you towards a direction of thought. The third gives the first letter and word count of the rarest answer. The fourth shows where the letters sit. Open them in order and stop whenever you have enough.
Yes. The first and third steps come from the data for the day. The second step is written from a template for the category, and we replace it with a hand-written nudge when a prompt needs more care.
Right after the new dive is published, usually within about twenty minutes of the midnight New York reset. If the page says that today's dive is being updated, check back shortly.
Yes. Use the checker under each prompt. It tells you whether your answer is on our list and which tier it sits in, without showing any other answers.