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Krillion Unlimited #17 (September 17, 2026)

The daily dive from Thursday, September 17, 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 #17
  1. Geography
    Name a country starting with the letter B
  2. Animals & Nature
    Name an animal native to Africa
  3. Food & Drink
    Name a pizza topping
  4. Movies & TV
    Name a British sitcom
  5. Music, Sports & Games
    Name a country music singer
  6. Brands & Things
    Name a toy brand
  7. Words & Knowledge
    Name a word that means "funny"

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 #17 in numbers

Dive #17 (Thursday, September 17, 2026) accepted 578 different answers across its seven prompts. The widest bank was Name an animal native to Africa with 130 answers; the narrowest was Name a country starting with the letter B with 17, 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 #17

  • Geography · Name a country starting with the letter B (17 accepted answers)

    Safe answer (Plankton, 10): Brazil · Deep Cuts (85): Burundi

    One in a Krillion (100): Belize — Belize is the only country in Central America where English is the official language, a legacy of British Honduras.

  • Animals & Nature · Name an animal native to Africa (130 accepted answers)

    Safe answer (Plankton, 10): Lion · Deep Cuts (85): African Wild Dog, Spotted Hyena, Striped Hyena

    One in a Krillion (100): Naked Mole-Rat — It's a mammal that lives like a bee colony — a single queen breeds while the rest are functionally sterile workers, and its skin can't even feel the sting of acid or chili peppers.

  • Food & Drink · Name a pizza topping (97 accepted answers)

    Safe answer (Plankton, 10): Pepperoni · Deep Cuts (85): Pancetta, Salami, Chorizo

    One in a Krillion (100): Natto — Domino's Japan really did sell a natto pizza, piling Japan's famously sticky, stringy fermented soybeans right onto the cheese.

  • Movies & TV · Name a British sitcom (95 accepted answers)

    Safe answer (Plankton, 10): The Office · Deep Cuts (85): Open All Hours, Some Mothers Do 'Ave 'Em, Hancock's Half Hour

    One in a Krillion (100): Chelmsford 123 — Nearly a decade before Mr. Bean, Rowan Atkinson played a hapless Roman governor stranded in ancient Britain in this sitcom.

  • Music, Sports & Games · Name a country music singer (110 accepted answers)

    Safe answer (Plankton, 10): Dolly Parton · Deep Cuts (85): Hank Williams, Hank Williams Jr., Conway Twitty

    One in a Krillion (100): DeFord Bailey — His harmonica train song inspired the very name 'Grand Ole Opry,' and he was the show's first star back in the 1920s.

  • Brands & Things · Name a toy brand (72 accepted answers)

    Safe answer (Plankton, 10): Lego · Deep Cuts (85): Tamiya, Hornby, Airfix

    One in a Krillion (100): Steiff — Steiff invented the teddy bear in 1902 and still sews a tiny button into every animal's ear as its trademark.

  • Words & Knowledge · Name a word that means "funny" (57 accepted answers)

    Safe answer (Plankton, 10): Hilarious · Deep Cuts (85): Rib-tickling, Knee-slapping, Gut-busting

    One in a Krillion (100): Gelastic — It's the old English word for 'funny' that survives today mainly in 'gelastic seizure,' a medical condition causing fits of involuntary laughter.

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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