Krillion Game Independent log

Dive #16

Friday, July 31, 2026

499 official answers. Snapshot from Krillion's public reveal for this UTC date.

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01 Name a strait (a narrow sea passage between two landmasses)
58 official answers · tap a tier to unblur
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One in a Krillion 100 pt · 2
Golden Gate The strait came first: the mile-wide gap where San Francisco Bay meets the Pacific, named in 1846 before a single cable was spun. The bridge is just wearing its name. Strait of Tartary Between Sakhalin Island and mainland Russia. For decades, cartographers weren't sure if it was a strait or if Sakhalin was a peninsula. Ships had to find out the hard way.
Deep Cut 85 pt · 27
Cabot Strait Davis Strait Denmark Strait Fram Strait Great Belt Hecate Strait Karimata Strait Kattegat La Perouse Strait Lombok Strait Makassar Strait Menai Strait Mona Passage Nares Strait Northumberland Strait Singapore Strait Skagerrak Solent Strait of Belle Isle Strait of Georgia Strait of Tiran Sunda Strait Surigao Strait The Narrows Vella Gulf Windward Passage Yucatan Channel
Rare 60 pt · 17
Bab-el-Mandeb Beagle Channel Dardanelles Hudson Strait Juan de Fuca Strait Korea Strait Luzon Strait Mozambique Channel Oresund Palk Strait Strait of Bonifacio Strait of Kerch Strait of Messina Strait of Otranto Strait of Sicily Taiwan Strait Tsugaru Strait
Schooler 30 pt · 9
Bass Strait Cook Strait Drake Passage English Channel Strait of Florida Strait of Hormuz Strait of Magellan Strait of Malacca Torres Strait
Too Clever 15 pt · 1
Bosphorus Where Europe meets Asia. The geography flex everyone reaches for to sound worldly. The school has crossed it in its mind.
Plankton 10 pt · 2
Bering Strait Strait of Gibraltar
02 Name a creature that lives in the deep sea
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One in a Krillion 100 pt · 2
Abyssal sea pig Technically a sea cucumber (Scotoplanes), it waddles on leg-like appendages across the abyssal plain in herds of thousands. The deep sea's most surprising livestock. Bristlemouth A finger-sized fish so numerous it outnumbers every other vertebrate on Earth, with population estimates in the quadrillions. The most common backboned animal in existence, and almost nobody knows its name.
Deep Cut 85 pt · 20
Bigfin squid Black swallower Chilean sea bass Chimaera Cookiecutter shark Firefly squid Footballfish Lancetfish Megamouth shark Orange roughy Sea spider Siphonophore Sixgill shark Snailfish Spookfish Stoplight loosejaw Tripod fish Whalefish Yeti crab Zombie worm
Rare 60 pt · 19
Brittle star Coelacanth Colossal squid Frilled shark Goblin shark Greenland shark Hagfish Hatchetfish Humboldt squid Hydrothermal vent worm Isopod Krill Our namesake. We see you. Tiny, numerous, and absolutely essential. Which is to say, just like the right answer. Lanternfish Monkfish Nautilus Oarfish Rattail fish Sea cucumber Snipe eel
Schooler 30 pt · 10
Barreleye fish Bioluminescent jellyfish Blobfish Dragonfish Dumbo octopus Fangtooth fish Gulper eel Sperm whale Vampire squid Viperfish
Too Clever 15 pt · 1
Angler fish The photogenic nightmare of every deep-sea documentary. Famous-for-being-scary. The school has seen the meme.
Plankton 10 pt · 1
Giant squid
03 Name a variety of chili pepper
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One in a Krillion 100 pt · 1
Aji Cito Tiny Peruvian pepper. Sometimes called the world's hottest per gram of flesh. Barely documented outside specialist catalogs. Krillion-tier obscurity per unit of heat.
Deep Cut 85 pt · 20
7 Pot Douglah Aji Amarillo Aji Charapita Aleppo pepper Calabrian chili Chiltepin Datil Dragon's Breath Espelette Fatalii Gochu Kashmiri chili Malagueta Naga Viper Peperoncino Pepper X Peruvian aji limo Piquillo pepper Red Savina Rocoto pepper
Rare 60 pt · 14
Arbol chili Cascabel pepper Cubanelle pepper Guajillo pepper Hungarian wax pepper Mulato pepper New Mexico pepper Padrón pepper Pasilla pepper Pimento Piri piri Shishito pepper Tabasco pepper Trinidad Moruga Scorpion
Schooler 30 pt · 10
Anaheim pepper Ancho chili Banana pepper Cayenne Chipotle Fresno pepper Poblano Scotch bonnet Serrano Thai chili
Too Clever 15 pt · 2
Carolina Reaper The world's hottest pepper. As of a few years ago, anyway. Every spice bro's go-to. The school has the T-shirt and the regret. Ghost pepper Bhut jolokia. The challenge video tier. You are not the first person here and you are not wrong.
Plankton 10 pt · 3
Bell pepper Habanero Jalapeño
04 Name a Pokémon from the original 151
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One in a Krillion 100 pt · 1
Porygon The only fully digital Pokémon in Gen 1. A virtual creature made of code, with a Pokédex entry, given the same legal status as a living animal. Game Freak invented digital consciousness in 1996 and barely made a fuss about it.
Deep Cut 85 pt · 15
Arbok Dewgong Exeggcute Farfetch'd Fearow Goldeen Machoke Nidorina Nidorino Paras Parasect Seaking Seel Tangela Venonat
Rare 60 pt · 89
Aerodactyl Arcanine Bellsprout Blastoise Chansey Charmeleon Clefable Cloyster Dodrio Doduo Dragonair Dratini Drowzee Dugtrio Ekans Electabuzz Electrode Exeggutor Flareon Gloom Golbat Golduck Golem Graveler Grimer Hitmonchan Hitmonlee Horsea Hypno Ivysaur Jolteon Jynx Kabuto Kabutops Kadabra Kangaskhan Kingler Koffing Krabby Lickitung Machamp Machop Magmar Magnemite Magneton Mankey Marowak Muk Nidoking Nidoqueen Nidoran-F Nidoran-M Ninetales Omanyte Omastar Persian Pidgeot Pidgeotto Pinsir Poliwag Poliwhirl Poliwrath Ponyta Primeape Rapidash Raticate Rhydon Rhyhorn Sandshrew Sandslash Scyther Seadra Shellder Slowbro Starmie Staryu Tauros Tentacool Tentacruel Vaporeon Venomoth Venusaur Victreebel Vileplume Voltorb Wartortle Weepinbell Weezing Wigglytuff
Schooler 30 pt · 37
Abra Alakazam Articuno Beedrill Butterfree Caterpie Clefairy Cubone Diglett Ditto Dragonite Gastly Gengar Geodude Growlithe Gyarados Haunter Kakuna Lapras Magikarp Meowth Metapod Mew The legendary truck myth. Everybody tried. Moltres Mr. Mime Oddish Onix Pidgey Psyduck Raichu Rattata Slowpoke Spearow Vulpix Weedle Zapdos Zubat
Too Clever 15 pt · 1
Mewtwo The 'I played the original games' flex. Everybody did. The school caught Mewtwo on Route 15.
Plankton 10 pt · 8
Bulbasaur Charizard Charmander Eevee Jigglypuff Pikachu Snorlax Squirtle
05 Name a phobia (its formal name, like 'arachnophobia')
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One in a Krillion 100 pt · 1
Venustraphobia The fear of beautiful women. Named after Venus. One of those phobias that's real, documented, and almost never mentioned outside clinical literature.
Deep Cut 85 pt · 35
Ablutophobia Aichmophobia Alektorophobia Amaxophobia Arithmophobia Athazagoraphobia Automatonophobia Chionophobia Chiroptophobia Deipnophobia Ergophobia Frigophobia Gelotophobia Globophobia Gymnophobia Heliophobia Herpetophobia Hexakosioihexekontahexaphobia Katsaridaphobia Koumpounophobia Melissophobia Monophobia Musophobia Nomophobia Ochlophobia Paraskevidekatriaphobia Pediophobia Phonophobia Pogonophobia Somniphobia Submechanophobia Taphophobia Telephonophobia Tokophobia Vestiphobia
Rare 60 pt · 18
Anthropophobia Astraphobia Atychiphobia Aviophobia Dentophobia Emetophobia Entomophobia Galeophobia Glossophobia Hemophobia Megalophobia Necrophobia Phasmophobia Philophobia Photophobia Thalassophobia Thanatophobia Xenophobia
Schooler 30 pt · 11
Ailurophobia Aquaphobia Coulrophobia Cynophobia Mysophobia Nyctophobia Ophidiophobia Ornithophobia Pyrophobia Trypanophobia Trypophobia
Too Clever 15 pt · 2
Hippopotomonstrosesquippedaliophobia The fear of long words. Named sarcastically. You already knew that. Everyone does. Triskaidekaphobia Fear of the number 13. The gateway phobia: everyone learns this word at age nine and deploys it forever.
Plankton 10 pt · 4
Acrophobia Agoraphobia Arachnophobia Claustrophobia
06 Name a world chess champion
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One in a Krillion 100 pt · 1
Nona Gaprindashvili The first woman to be awarded the Grandmaster title. Not Women's Grandmaster, but Grandmaster outright. World Women's Chess Champion for 16 years. One of the greatest players of any era.
Deep Cut 85 pt · 9
Alexander Khalifman Hou Yifan Maia Chiburdanidze Ruslan Ponomariov Rustam Kasimdzhanov Susan Polgar Vera Menchik The first Women's World Champion. Men who scoffed at her entry into open events and then lost to her were inducted into the 'Vera Menchik Club.' It grew embarrassingly large. Veselin Topalov Xie Jun
Rare 60 pt · 11
Alexander Alekhine Ding Liren Emanuel Lasker Gukesh Dommaraju Jose Raul Capablanca Max Euwe Mikhail Botvinnik Mikhail Tal Tigran Petrosian Vasily Smyslov Wilhelm Steinitz
Schooler 30 pt · 6
Anatoly Karpov Bobby Fischer Boris Spassky Garry Kasparov Viswanathan Anand Vladimir Kramnik
Too Clever 15 pt · 1
Paul Morphy The 'greatest player never to be champion' argument. Unofficial king of chess in the 1850s, before the title formally existed. A popular answer from those who've read one chess book.
Plankton 10 pt · 1
Magnus Carlsen
07 Name a famous ship (real or fictional)
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One in a Krillion 100 pt · 1
Caleuche A ghost ship from Chilean Chilote mythology. A glowing vessel that sails by night, collecting the souls of those who drowned, crewed by the dead. More beautiful and more haunting than the Flying Dutchman, and almost nobody outside Chile knows it.
Deep Cut 85 pt · 39
African Queen Andrea Doria Ark Royal Aurora Batavia Bonhomme Richard Carpathia Costa Concordia Endurance Erebus Essex Event Horizon Fram Going Merry Graf Spee Hispaniola HMS Challenger HMS Dreadnought HMS Hood HMS Resolution HMS Surprise Merrimack Monitor Olympic Pacific Princess Poseidon QE2 Rainbow Warrior Red October Rocinante Scorpion SS United States Temeraire Terra Nova Terror Thousand Sunny USS Maine Victoria Yellow Submarine
Rare 60 pt · 31
Battlestar Galactica Bismarck Bounty Britannic Calypso Cutty Sark Discovery Edmund Fitzgerald Endeavour Exxon Valdez Golden Hind HMS Beagle Jolly Roger Kon-Tiki Lusitania Mary Celeste Mary Rose Niña Orca Pinta Potemkin Queen Anne's Revenge Queen Mary Serenity SS Minnow USS Arizona USS Constitution USS Indianapolis USS Missouri Vasa Yamato
Schooler 30 pt · 13
Argo Black Pearl Flying Dutchman Heart of Gold HMS Victory Mayflower Millennium Falcon Technically a spaceship. We counted it. HAn Solo would want it this way. Nautilus Noah's Ark Nostromo Pequod Santa Maria USS Enterprise
Too Clever 15 pt · 2
Ever Given For six days in 2021 the planet's entire supply chain was held hostage by one very stuck boat, and we all watched a tiny excavator dig. Peak internet. Theseus's ship A philosophical thought experiment about identity, not a seaworthy vessel. Extra points for philosophy, zero for seamanship.
Plankton 10 pt · 1
Titanic

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