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Krillion Unlimited #16 (September 16, 2026)

The daily dive from Wednesday, September 16, 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 #16
  1. Geography
    Name a river in Africa
  2. Animals & Nature
    Name a nocturnal animal
  3. Food & Drink
    Name a type of berry
  4. Movies & TV
    Name a movie set in space
  5. Music, Sports & Games
    Name a stand-up comedian
  6. Brands & Things
    Name a social media platform
  7. Words & Knowledge
    Name a word that means "smart"

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 #16 in numbers

Dive #16 (Wednesday, September 16, 2026) accepted 521 different answers across its seven prompts. The widest bank was Name a stand-up comedian with 150 answers; the narrowest was Name a river in Africa with 36, 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 #16

  • Geography · Name a river in Africa (36 accepted answers)

    Safe answer (Plankton, 10): Nile · Deep Cuts (85): Lualaba River, Cuanza River, Cunene River

    One in a Krillion (100): Kagera River — Its headwaters, not the Nile's own banks, mark the true, most-distant source of the world's longest river.

  • Animals & Nature · Name a nocturnal animal (69 accepted answers)

    Safe answer (Plankton, 10): Owl · Deep Cuts (85): Aardvark, Aardwolf, Kinkajou

    One in a Krillion (100): Aye-aye — It taps trees like a woodpecker, then fishes grubs out with one absurdly thin, skeletal middle finger, and was once feared in Madagascar as a death omen for pointing that finger at people.

  • Food & Drink · Name a type of berry (62 accepted answers)

    Safe answer (Plankton, 10): Strawberry · Deep Cuts (85): Dewberry, Wineberry, Bearberry

    One in a Krillion (100): Miracle Berry — Eating just one temporarily rewires your tongue so lemons and vinegar taste like candy.

  • Movies & TV · Name a movie set in space (79 accepted answers)

    Safe answer (Plankton, 10): Star Wars · Deep Cuts (85): Europa Report, Silent Running, The Black Hole

    One in a Krillion (100): Dark Star — Made for about $60,000, its plot hinges on a bored astronaut talking a sentient bomb out of detonating by teaching it Descartes' philosophy.

  • Music, Sports & Games · Name a stand-up comedian (150 accepted answers)

    Safe answer (Plankton, 10): Jerry Seinfeld · Deep Cuts (85): Lenny Bruce, Joan Rivers, Phyllis Diller

    One in a Krillion (100): Emo Philips — His joke about asking God for a bike was voted the funniest religious joke of all time in a 2005 poll of thousands of entries.

  • Brands & Things · Name a social media platform (39 accepted answers)

    Safe answer (Plankton, 10): Facebook · Deep Cuts (85): MySpace, Vine, Google+

    One in a Krillion (100): Ello — Ello launched in 2014 as a snarky 'anti-Facebook' manifesto site that promised to never sell your data or run ads.

  • Words & Knowledge · Name a word that means "smart" (86 accepted answers)

    Safe answer (Plankton, 10): Smart · Deep Cuts (85): Sapient, Discerning, Insightful

    One in a Krillion (100): Boffin — Boffin was British WWII slang for the back-room scientists who built radar - a term for genius with a literal top-secret origin.

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.

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