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Krillion Unlimited #27 (September 27, 2026)

The daily dive from Sunday, September 27, 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 #27
  1. Geography
    Name a country starting with the letter P
  2. Animals & Nature
    Name an animal whose name starts with the letter W
  3. Food & Drink
    Name a Thai dish
  4. Movies & TV
    Name a late-night talk show host
  5. Music, Sports & Games
    Name an Olympic gold medalist
  6. Brands & Things
    Name a video game publisher
  7. Words & Knowledge
    Name a word borrowed from French

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 #27 in numbers

Dive #27 (Sunday, September 27, 2026) accepted 476 different answers across its seven prompts. The widest bank was Name an Olympic gold medalist with 129 answers; the narrowest was Name a country starting with the letter P with 10, 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 #27

  • Geography · Name a country starting with the letter P (10 accepted answers)

    Safe answer (Plankton, 10): Poland · Deep Cuts (85): Papua New Guinea

    One in a Krillion (100): Palau — Palau is home to Jellyfish Lake, where millions of golden jellyfish that evolved without a sting drift across the water every day.

  • Animals & Nature · Name an animal whose name starts with the letter W (68 accepted answers)

    Safe answer (Plankton, 10): Whale · Deep Cuts (85): Wapiti, Weka, Whimbrel

    One in a Krillion (100): Wobbegong — A wobbegong shark lies flat on the seafloor disguised as a lumpy, fringed carpet, then ambushes prey that swims too close.

  • Food & Drink · Name a Thai dish (39 accepted answers)

    Safe answer (Plankton, 10): Pad Thai · Deep Cuts (85): Nam Tok, Khao Man Gai, Yam Woon Sen

    One in a Krillion (100): Khao Chae — This royal Mon-origin dish floats jasmine-scented rice in ice water and was traditionally eaten only during Thailand's hottest month.

  • Movies & TV · Name a late-night talk show host (38 accepted answers)

    Safe answer (Plankton, 10): Jimmy Fallon · Deep Cuts (85): Merv Griffin, Tom Snyder, Joey Bishop

    One in a Krillion (100): Pat Sajak — The Wheel of Fortune host had his own CBS late-night talk show that flopped against Carson in 1989-90.

  • Music, Sports & Games · Name an Olympic gold medalist (129 accepted answers)

    Safe answer (Plankton, 10): Michael Phelps · Deep Cuts (85): Ian Thorpe, Missy Franklin, Ryan Lochte

    One in a Krillion (100): Robert Garrett — At the first modern Olympics in 1896, he'd only ever practiced with a heavy replica discus he could barely throw — the real one turned out to be lighter, and he shocked the Greek favorites to win gold.

  • Brands & Things · Name a video game publisher (95 accepted answers)

    Safe answer (Plankton, 10): Nintendo · Deep Cuts (85): Level-5, Deep Silver, Focus Entertainment

    One in a Krillion (100): Annapurna Interactive — Annapurna Interactive, publisher of Stray and Outer Wilds, is run by the same studio behind Oscar winners like Zero Dark Thirty and American Hustle.

  • Words & Knowledge · Name a word borrowed from French (97 accepted answers)

    Safe answer (Plankton, 10): Café · Deep Cuts (85): Camouflage, Chauffeur, Connoisseur

    One in a Krillion (100): Mayday — The distress call "Mayday" comes from the French "m'aider," short for "venez m'aider" — "come help me."

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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