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Krillion Unlimited #15 (September 15, 2026)

The daily dive from Tuesday, September 15, 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 #15
  1. Geography
    Name a mountain range in the world
  2. Animals & Nature
    Name a venomous animal
  3. Food & Drink
    Name a cocktail
  4. Movies & TV
    Name a TV crime drama
  5. Music, Sports & Games
    Name a musical instrument
  6. Brands & Things
    Name a headphone brand
  7. Words & Knowledge
    Name a word that means "tired"

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 #15 in numbers

Dive #15 (Tuesday, September 15, 2026) accepted 578 different answers across its seven prompts. The widest bank was Name a musical instrument with 130 answers; the narrowest was Name a mountain range in the world with 43, 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 #15
  • Geography · Name a mountain range in the world (43 accepted answers)

    Safe answer (Plankton, 10): Himalayas · Deep Cuts (85): Brooks Range, Adirondack Mountains, Catskill Mountains

    One in a Krillion (100): Gamburtsev Mountains — A range the size of the Alps, completely buried under Antarctic ice and only discovered by Soviet scientists using seismic surveys.

  • Animals & Nature · Name a venomous animal (72 accepted answers)

    Safe answer (Plankton, 10): Snake · Deep Cuts (85): Copperhead, Cottonmouth, Coral Snake

    One in a Krillion (100): Slow Loris — It's the only venomous primate — it licks a toxin from a gland on its elbow and mixes it with saliva before biting.

  • Food & Drink · Name a cocktail (98 accepted answers)

    Safe answer (Plankton, 10): Margarita · Deep Cuts (85): Gimlet, Sidecar, Grasshopper

    One in a Krillion (100): Trinidad Sour — Its recipe flips tradition on its head: a full 1.5 oz of Angostura bitters is the base spirit, more than any other classic cocktail uses.

  • Movies & TV · Name a TV crime drama (111 accepted answers)

    Safe answer (Plankton, 10): Law & Order · Deep Cuts (85): NCIS: Los Angeles, CSI: NY, Law & Order: Criminal Intent

    One in a Krillion (100): Babylon Berlin — This German Weimar-era crime drama was the most expensive non-English-language TV series ever made when it premiered in 2017.

  • Music, Sports & Games · Name a musical instrument (130 accepted answers)

    Safe answer (Plankton, 10): Piano · Deep Cuts (85): Viola, Double Bass, Lute

    One in a Krillion (100): Glass Harmonica — Benjamin Franklin invented it in 1761—you play it by touching spinning glass bowls with wet fingers.

  • Brands & Things · Name a headphone brand (51 accepted answers)

    Safe answer (Plankton, 10): Beats · Deep Cuts (85): Panasonic, Philips, Nothing

    One in a Krillion (100): Grado — Every Grado headphone is still hand-assembled in the same Brooklyn brownstone the family has used since 1953.

  • Words & Knowledge · Name a word that means "tired" (73 accepted answers)

    Safe answer (Plankton, 10): Tired · Deep Cuts (85): Whacked, Enervated, Done In

    One in a Krillion (100): Cream Crackered — Cockney rhyming slang — 'crackered' rhymes with 'knackered,' so Londoners say they're 'cream crackered' when dead tired.

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.