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Krillion Unlimited #12 (September 12, 2026)

The daily dive from Saturday, September 12, 2026. Replays don't affect your streak.

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Seven prompts, 25 seconds each. Any correct answer counts — but the rarer it is, the deeper you sink.

Preview the seven prompts of #12
  1. Geography
    Name a country starting with the letter T
  2. Animals & Nature
    Name a bird found in North America
  3. Food & Drink
    Name a type of tea
  4. Movies & TV
    Name a cartoon character from the 1990s
  5. Music, Sports & Games
    Name a music festival
  6. Brands & Things
    Name a shoe brand
  7. Words & Knowledge
    Name a unit of time

Answers stay hidden until you finish the dive — then every accepted answer and its tier is shown. Spoilers are further down the page, folded.

Krillion #12 in numbers

Dive #12 (Saturday, September 12, 2026) accepted 573 different answers across its seven prompts. The widest bank was Name a cartoon character from the 1990s with 158 answers; the narrowest was Name a country starting with the letter T with 12, which is where a Deep Cut was hardest to find. A perfect dive is 700 points (7,000 m); the safe route of seven Plankton answers reaches 70 points, 700 m, and never leaves the sunlight zone.

Spoilers: the One in a Krillion answer for every prompt of #12
  • Geography · Name a country starting with the letter T (12 accepted answers)

    Safe answer (Plankton, 10): Thailand · Deep Cuts (85): Timor-Leste

    One in a Krillion (100): Tuvalu — Tiny Tuvalu earns tens of millions of dollars a year just by leasing out its '.tv' internet domain to streaming and TV companies.

  • Animals & Nature · Name a bird found in North America (107 accepted answers)

    Safe answer (Plankton, 10): Eagle · Deep Cuts (85): Golden Eagle, American Kestrel, Cooper's Hawk

    One in a Krillion (100): Kirtland's Warbler — Kirtland's Warbler nearly went extinct because it only nests in young jack pine forests 5 to 20 years old, so biologists set controlled fires just to give it a home.

  • Food & Drink · Name a type of tea (88 accepted answers)

    Safe answer (Plankton, 10): Green Tea · Deep Cuts (85): Gyokuro, Hojicha, Bancha

    One in a Krillion (100): Panda Dung Tea — A Chinese entrepreneur fertilizes this green tea with panda droppings, and it has sold for roughly $200 a cup.

  • Movies & TV · Name a cartoon character from the 1990s (158 accepted answers)

    Safe answer (Plankton, 10): Bart Simpson · Deep Cuts (85): Marge Simpson, Lisa Simpson, Maggie Simpson

    One in a Krillion (100): Aeon Flux — In MTV's Aeon Flux, the title assassin died at the end of almost every episode and simply reappeared alive in the next one with zero explanation.

  • Music, Sports & Games · Name a music festival (82 accepted answers)

    Safe answer (Plankton, 10): Coachella · Deep Cuts (85): Sziget Festival, Exit Festival, Way Out West

    One in a Krillion (100): Wacken Open Air — This metal festival takes over Wacken, a German village of just 1,800 people, with 85,000 headbangers every summer.

  • Brands & Things · Name a shoe brand (89 accepted answers)

    Safe answer (Plankton, 10): Nike · Deep Cuts (85): Mizuno, Diadora, Kappa

    One in a Krillion (100): Onitsuka Tiger — Its 1966 tiger-stripe design was worn by Bruce Lee in Game of Death and later paid homage in Kill Bill — decades before the brand relaunched as Asics.

  • Words & Knowledge · Name a unit of time (37 accepted answers)

    Safe answer (Plankton, 10): Second · Deep Cuts (85): Picosecond, Femtosecond, Attosecond

    One in a Krillion (100): Jiffy — A jiffy is a real physics unit — the time light takes to travel one centimeter, about 33 picoseconds.

Tiers are editorial estimates, not player statistics — how they are assigned is on the scoring page. Think an answer is missing or mis-tiered? Tell us.