Krillion

Seven open questions, a rarity tier on every accepted answer, and ten metres of depth for each point.

Krillion on DLE HQ is a daily set of 7 open-ended questions, and the rarer the answer the higher the score. The board in the frame is our own. It uses an original prompt list, original rarity tiers, and a depth meter that darkens as the points add up. A listed answer locks that question. Anything off the list is refused, the clock keeps running, and you try another wording before the seconds expire.

The loop is short on purpose. Each question lasts about 25 seconds. Seven of them make the whole dated set. Points become depth at ten metres each, so a perfect sheet of seven top-tier answers is 700 points and 7,000 m. The water you are in — sunlight, twilight, midnight, abyssal, or hadal — is that depth, drawn on the board as the background. At the end you get a named result band and a share line that shows the band, the depth, and seven glyphs. The share line does not print the prompts or the words you typed.

The dated set is a fixed shuffle of the bank for the UTC date, so two players who open the page that day see the same seven prompts in the same order. Scores stay in this browser.

How to Play Krillion

Look at the board first. The question, the countdown, and the answer box are on screen as soon as the bank loads. Daily is selected. The depth reads 0 m and the water is still the sunlit layer.
Read the question. It names an open category, such as a bone, a river, or a cloud, and it does not offer choices. Type the answer you want to be scored and press Guess or Enter.
A listed answer, including a listed alias, locks the question. The row records the tier name and the points. Capital letters, extra spaces, and a small misspelling still match. An unlisted word is rejected with no change to the score and no reset of the clock.
If the word you want is not coming, press Pass, or let the clock reach zero. Either one scores 0 for that question and moves on. There is no partial credit for a near miss that the matcher refuses.
After the seventh question the board stops on a result band, the total depth, and a share box. Copy sends that text to the clipboard. The glyphs stand in for the tiers. They are not the answers.

Play free online, with no download

The board is part of this page. On a computer, click the box and type. On a phone the box is an ordinary text field. Nothing is installed and nothing is signed in. Refreshing during a question keeps the dated set; if the clock already ran out while the tab was hidden, that question is stored as time and the next one starts. The solved streak and the best depth stay on this device only.

Krillion Scoring and the Ocean Depths

Every accepted answer belongs to one rarity tier, assigned in advance on that prompt. The tier is the whole score. You do not negotiate it, and a second guess does not replace it once the word has locked. The six tiers, and the points they award, are fixed:

Plankton scores 10. This is the word almost everyone reaches first.
Too Clever scores 15. It is a common show-off answer, still near the surface of the category.
Schooler scores 30. A classroom would know it, and it is no longer the first blurt.
Rare scores 60. A correct member of the category that most players will not reach in the moment.
Deep Cut scores 85. Specialist knowledge: a real answer that needs a narrower memory.
One in a Krillion scores 100. The scarcest listed answer on that prompt. Seven of these make a perfect day.

Depth is points times ten. A Plankton lock is 100 m. A Schooler lock is 300 m. One in a Krillion is 1,000 m from that question alone. The running total is what the gauge and the background use. A timeout and a pass both add zero, so they do not move the gauge. A wrong word does not subtract, because it never becomes a row.

The background follows five ocean layers. From 0 m through 199 m the board stays in Sunlight. From 200 m through 999 m it shifts to Twilight. From 1,000 m through 3,999 m it is Midnight. From 4,000 m through 5,999 m it is Abyssal. From 6,000 m downward it is Hadal. Those cuts are the same ones the result band uses, with two names reserved for the ends of the scale.

Surface is the band for a sheet that scored 0. The water is still the sunlit colour, and the band records that you never left the top.
Sunlight, Twilight, Midnight, Abyssal, and Hadal name the layer of the final depth when the score is above zero and short of a perfect sheet.
Perfect Hadal is reserved for 7,000 m, which is 700 points. That is seven One in a Krillion locks and nothing else.

The share text carries the band, the depth, the puzzle number, and one glyph per question. White is a pass or a timeout. Green is Plankton, yellow is Too Clever, blue is Schooler, purple is Rare, orange is Deep Cut, and red is One in a Krillion. The line ends with this page’s address and leaves out both the prompts and the words you typed.

The dated set rolls at midnight UTC. Puzzle 1 is 19 October 2026. Finishing stores the sheet in local storage. Opening the page again that date shows the band instead of a second dated deal. The lock is per browser.

Krillion Unlimited – No Daily Limit

The second mode on the board leaves the dated sheet where it is and deals seven prompts at random from the same bank. There is no cap on how many of those rounds you finish, and Next round deals another seven as soon as the result is up. A round in this mode is numbered on its own share line so it is not mistaken for the dated puzzle. Closing a random round does not raise the daily streak. The streak moves only when a new UTC date is finished.

The draw tries not to copy the dated order from the same day. Best depth remembers the deeper result. Dated rounds and open rounds are counted on separate totals.

Krillion vs Noillirk – Rare vs Common

Krillion and Noillirk use the same shape of round and the opposite incentive. Both deal seven open questions on a clock of about 25 seconds. Both refuse an unlisted word without punishing you, and both turn a pass or a timeout into a zero. Krillion pays the most for the answer almost nobody reaches. Noillirk pays the most for the answer a crowd would have said first.

On this page the scarce listed word is worth 100 points and 1,000 m. The obvious listed word is worth 10. On Noillirk the top survey rank is worth 100 and a valid word that missed the counted hundred is worth 10. If you enjoy being obscure, stay here. If you enjoy guessing what a room of people would blurt, the other page is the matching game. The two boards do not share a score, a streak, or a prompt list. Each page carries the same notice: DLE HQ is not affiliated with the creators of Krillion or Noillirk.

The first word that comes to mind is often a Plankton lock here and a top rank over there. A listed word locks and cannot be upgraded, so decide which end you are hunting before you press Guess.

Tips for Rarer Answers

Bring a specialist word, not a clever one

Too Clever is only five points above Plankton. The jump that matters is Schooler to Rare, and then Rare to Deep Cut. Before the clock starts to feel short, name the least famous member of the category that you can still defend as real. A bone prompt rewards stapes more than femur. A cloud prompt rewards a genus you met in a weather book more than the thunderhead everyone can picture. If you cannot reach that word in the first few seconds, take the Schooler you are sure about rather than burning the clock on a guess you cannot spell.

Do not lock the first true word by accident

The matcher is forgiving about case and small spelling slips, and it accepts aliases such as collarbone for clavicle or metre for meter. That help cuts both ways. A casual synonym can be a listed Plankton answer. Read what you typed before you press Enter. If the box shows the obvious member of the category, you are about to buy ten points. Delete it and try the narrower word while the bar still has time.

Use Pass when the category is empty

A zero is the same whether you pass or time out. Pass when you have no listed candidate. If you can spell a Rare word, spend the seconds there. One slipped letter still matches a word of five letters or more. Two different answers at the same distance are refused rather than awarded to either.

FAQ

What if my answer is not on the list?

It is rejected and the question stays open. The score does not drop, the clock does not reset, and you can type another word until the seconds run out or you pass. Only a listed answer, a listed alias, or a close spelling of one of those locks the tier.

How does depth relate to points?

Each point is ten metres. The tier points are 10, 15, 30, 60, 85, and 100. A full sheet of 100-point answers is 700 points and 7,000 m. Pass and timeout add nothing. The background layer and the result band both read that running depth.

Does everyone get the same questions today?

Yes for the dated set. The seven prompts are a fixed shuffle of the bank for the UTC date, in the same order for every player. The random mode deals a different seven and is not the puzzle people are sharing.

What are the six rarity tiers?

Plankton 10, Too Clever 15, Schooler 30, Rare 60, Deep Cut 85, and One in a Krillion 100. The tier is attached to the answer in the bank before you play. The board does not score you by how fast you typed or by how unusual the word feels if that word was filed in a lower tier.

What happens when the clock runs out?

That question scores 0 and the next one starts with a fresh count of about 25 seconds. The same zero is what Pass records. If the tab was in the background and the deadline passed, the missed question is stored as time when you return.

Is DLE HQ affiliated with the creators of Krillion?

No. DLE HQ is not affiliated with the creators of Krillion or Noillirk. The prompts, the tier list, the depth layers, and the board are original to this page.

More Games

The matching page in this shelf is Noillirk, the common-answer survey. Both sit under Trivia. Elsewhere on the site, Globle is the country-distance game, Flagle is the flag game, the five-letter word game hides a short word, Heardle is the intro puzzle, and the music clip game grows a song. The three-in-a-row word board is there when you want letters instead of a category.

DLE HQ is not affiliated with the creators of Krillion or Noillirk.

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