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Krillion Unlimited #21 (September 21, 2026)

The daily dive from Monday, September 21, 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 #21
  1. Geography
    Name a country that uses the Euro
  2. Animals & Nature
    Name an animal that lives in the Arctic
  3. Food & Drink
    Name a food eaten during a festival or holiday
  4. Movies & TV
    Name a TV show set in a school
  5. Music, Sports & Games
    Name a musical duo or group
  6. Brands & Things
    Name a supermarket or grocery store chain
  7. Words & Knowledge
    Name a palindrome word

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 #21 in numbers

Dive #21 (Monday, September 21, 2026) accepted 572 different answers across its seven prompts. The widest bank was Name a food eaten during a festival or holiday with 146 answers; the narrowest was Name a country that uses the Euro with 26, 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 #21
  • Geography · Name a country that uses the Euro (26 accepted answers)

    Safe answer (Plankton, 10): France · Deep Cuts (85): Monaco, San Marino, Andorra

    One in a Krillion (100): Vatican City — The world's smallest country mints its own Euro coins in mintages so tiny that some fetch thousands of dollars from collectors.

  • Animals & Nature · Name an animal that lives in the Arctic (68 accepted answers)

    Safe answer (Plankton, 10): Polar Bear · Deep Cuts (85): Arctic Ground Squirrel, Collared Lemming, Brown Lemming

    One in a Krillion (100): Arctic Woolly Bear Moth — Its caterpillar freezes solid every winter and may repeat this for up to 7 years before finally turning into a moth.

  • Food & Drink · Name a food eaten during a festival or holiday (146 accepted answers)

    Safe answer (Plankton, 10): Turkey · Deep Cuts (85): Figgy Pudding, Mince Pie, Roast Goose

    One in a Krillion (100): Kutia — On Ukrainian Christmas Eve, families toss a spoonful of this wheat-and-honey pudding at the ceiling — the more that sticks, the luckier next year's harvest.

  • Movies & TV · Name a TV show set in a school (86 accepted answers)

    Safe answer (Plankton, 10): Glee · Deep Cuts (85): Victorious, Zoey 101, Girl Meets World

    One in a Krillion (100): Chalk — This forgotten 1997 BBC staffroom sitcom was written by a young Steven Moffat, who later joked he wished the tapes could be burned before he went on to run Doctor Who and Sherlock.

  • Music, Sports & Games · Name a musical duo or group (105 accepted answers)

    Safe answer (Plankton, 10): The Beatles · Deep Cuts (85): Talking Heads, The Kinks, The Police

    One in a Krillion (100): Ladysmith Black Mambazo — This South African a cappella group sings entirely without instruments and won five Grammys after Paul Simon featured them on Graceland.

  • Brands & Things · Name a supermarket or grocery store chain (88 accepted answers)

    Safe answer (Plankton, 10): Walmart · Deep Cuts (85): Giant Eagle, Save-A-Lot, Giant Food

    One in a Krillion (100): Stew Leonard's — This Connecticut grocery chain is nicknamed the 'Disneyland of Dairy Stores' for its animatronic singing cows and a three-ton granite rock out front carved with 'Rule 1: The customer is always right.'

  • Words & Knowledge · Name a palindrome word (53 accepted answers)

    Safe answer (Plankton, 10): Mom · Deep Cuts (85): Pip, Pup, Bib

    One in a Krillion (100): Tattarrattat — James Joyce coined this 12-letter palindrome in Ulysses for the sound of a knock on a door — Guinness World Records lists it as the longest common English palindrome.

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