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Krillion Unlimited #41 (October 11, 2026)

The daily dive from Sunday, October 11, 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 #41
  1. Geography
    Name a country that shares a border with China
  2. Animals & Nature
    Name an animal whose name starts with the letter D
  3. Food & Drink
    Name a Chinese dish
  4. Movies & TV
    Name a character from the Harry Potter movies
  5. Music, Sports & Games
    Name a girl group
  6. Brands & Things
    Name a brand of backpack
  7. Words & Knowledge
    Name a word that means "to think"

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 #41 in numbers

Dive #41 (Sunday, October 11, 2026) accepted 533 different answers across its seven prompts. The widest bank was Name a character from the Harry Potter movies with 134 answers; the narrowest was Name a country that shares a border with China with 14, 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 #41

  • Geography · Name a country that shares a border with China (14 accepted answers)

    Safe answer (Plankton, 10): Russia · Deep Cuts (85): Tajikistan

    One in a Krillion (100): Kyrgyzstan — Kyrgyzstan's border with China runs through the Torugart Pass, a Silk Road route once crossed only by camel caravan.

  • Animals & Nature · Name an animal whose name starts with the letter D (105 accepted answers)

    Safe answer (Plankton, 10): Dog · Deep Cuts (85): Desman, Degu, Dormouse

    One in a Krillion (100): Dumbo Octopus — This deep-sea octopus flaps two ear-like fins to swim, which is exactly why it's named after Disney's flying elephant.

  • Food & Drink · Name a Chinese dish (89 accepted answers)

    Safe answer (Plankton, 10): Kung Pao Chicken · Deep Cuts (85): Sichuan Boiled Fish, Chongqing Spicy Chicken, Kung Pao Shrimp

    One in a Krillion (100): Buddha Jumps Over the Wall — Legend says its aroma was so irresistible that a monk leapt over his monastery wall just to get a taste.

  • Movies & TV · Name a character from the Harry Potter movies (134 accepted answers)

    Safe answer (Plankton, 10): Harry Potter · Deep Cuts (85): Percy Weasley, Bill Weasley, Charlie Weasley

    One in a Krillion (100): Cuthbert Binns — He's the History of Magic teacher who's a ghost — he was so boring he fell asleep by the fire, died, and got up the next morning to keep teaching without noticing.

  • Music, Sports & Games · Name a girl group (92 accepted answers)

    Safe answer (Plankton, 10): Spice Girls · Deep Cuts (85): Eternal, Cleopatra, Honeyz

    One in a Krillion (100): The Cookies — The Cookies recorded the original 'Chains' in 1962 as a Brill Building demo — The Beatles loved it so much they covered it on their debut album.

  • Brands & Things · Name a brand of backpack (62 accepted answers)

    Safe answer (Plankton, 10): JanSport · Deep Cuts (85): Case Logic, High Sierra, Nautica

    One in a Krillion (100): Mystery Ranch — Its founder invented the original JanSport backpack in the 1960s, then decades later started over from scratch to build Mystery Ranch.

  • Words & Knowledge · Name a word that means "to think" (37 accepted answers)

    Safe answer (Plankton, 10): Ponder · Deep Cuts (85): Excogitate, Noodle, Ideate

    One in a Krillion (100): Perpend — Shakespeare's Polonius barks 'Perpend!' at Hamlet in Act 2 — an entire 400-year-old command meaning 'think about this' packed into one word.

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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