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Krillion Unlimited #18 (September 18, 2026)

The daily dive from Friday, September 18, 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 #18
  1. Geography
    Name a country bordering the Pacific Ocean
  2. Animals & Nature
    Name a breed of cat
  3. Food & Drink
    Name a type of soup
  4. Movies & TV
    Name a movie that won the Oscar for Best Picture
  5. Music, Sports & Games
    Name an Olympic sport
  6. Brands & Things
    Name a cosmetics brand
  7. Words & Knowledge
    Name a zodiac sign

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 #18 in numbers

Dive #18 (Friday, September 18, 2026) accepted 482 different answers across its seven prompts. The widest bank was Name a type of soup with 98 answers; the narrowest was Name a zodiac sign with 25, 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 #18
  • Geography · Name a country bordering the Pacific Ocean (42 accepted answers)

    Safe answer (Plankton, 10): United States · Deep Cuts (85): Nicaragua, Honduras, El Salvador

    One in a Krillion (100): Nauru — Nauru, the world's smallest island nation, once grew so rich from phosphate mining that it had one of the highest GDPs per capita on Earth—right before it literally mined most of the island away.

  • Animals & Nature · Name a breed of cat (73 accepted answers)

    Safe answer (Plankton, 10): Persian · Deep Cuts (85): Exotic Shorthair, Selkirk Rex, LaPerm

    One in a Krillion (100): Ojos Azules — So rare that breeding was halted after its blue-eye gene turned out to cause birth defects in some kittens, leaving only a handful of true Ojos Azules alive today.

  • Food & Drink · Name a type of soup (98 accepted answers)

    Safe answer (Plankton, 10): Chicken Noodle Soup · Deep Cuts (85): Tom Yum, Tom Kha Gai, Laksa

    One in a Krillion (100): Bird's Nest Soup — It's made from solidified swiftlet saliva harvested from cave nests, making it one of the priciest animal products on Earth by weight.

  • Movies & TV · Name a movie that won the Oscar for Best Picture (97 accepted answers)

    Safe answer (Plankton, 10): Titanic · Deep Cuts (85): Wings, The Broadway Melody, All Quiet on the Western Front

    One in a Krillion (100): Cimarron — This 1931 Western was the only one of its genre to win Best Picture for 59 lonely years, until Dances with Wolves finally joined it in 1990.

  • Music, Sports & Games · Name an Olympic sport (76 accepted answers)

    Safe answer (Plankton, 10): Swimming · Deep Cuts (85): Handball, Field Hockey, Canoeing

    One in a Krillion (100): Solo Synchronized Swimming — From 1984 to 1992, Olympians actually competed in solo synchronized swimming — synchronizing with absolutely no one but themselves.

  • Brands & Things · Name a cosmetics brand (71 accepted answers)

    Safe answer (Plankton, 10): Maybelline · Deep Cuts (85): Kat Von D, Morphe, ColourPop

    One in a Krillion (100): Fashion Fair Cosmetics — Launched in 1973 by Ebony magazine publisher Eunice Johnson, it was the first cosmetics line made specifically for Black women — decades before 'shade range' became an industry buzzword.

  • Words & Knowledge · Name a zodiac sign (25 accepted answers)

    Safe answer (Plankton, 10): Aries · Deep Cuts (85): Snake, Goat, Rooster

    One in a Krillion (100): Ophiuchus — It's the real 13th constellation the Sun passes through between Scorpio and Sagittarius, quietly dropped from horoscopes to keep the count a tidy twelve.

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.