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Krillion Unlimited #45 (October 15, 2026)

The daily dive from Thursday, October 15, 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 #45
  1. Geography
    Name a country in West Africa
  2. Animals & Nature
    Name an animal whose name starts with the letter C
  3. Food & Drink
    Name a dessert made with fruit
  4. Movies & TV
    Name a character from the Toy Story movies
  5. Music, Sports & Games
    Name an actor who has won the Academy Award for Best Actor
  6. Brands & Things
    Name a brand of protein or energy bar
  7. Words & Knowledge
    Name a word that means "strange"

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 #45 in numbers

Dive #45 (Thursday, October 15, 2026) accepted 487 different answers across its seven prompts. The widest bank was Name an animal whose name starts with the letter C with 131 answers; the narrowest was Name a country in West Africa with 16, 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 #45
  • Geography · Name a country in West Africa (16 accepted answers)

    Safe answer (Plankton, 10): Nigeria · Deep Cuts (85): Guinea-Bissau

    One in a Krillion (100): Cabo Verde — Cabo Verde isn't even attached to the African mainland — it's a chain of volcanic islands 400 miles off Senegal's coast, once a Portuguese slave-trade hub, now home to the barefoot-singing music legend Cesária Évora.

  • Animals & Nature · Name an animal whose name starts with the letter C (131 accepted answers)

    Safe answer (Plankton, 10): Cat · Deep Cuts (85): Colobus Monkey, Capuchin Monkey, Chipmunk

    One in a Krillion (100): Chevrotain — The world's smallest hoofed mammal — some males have fang-like tusks instead of antlers.

  • Food & Drink · Name a dessert made with fruit (78 accepted answers)

    Safe answer (Plankton, 10): Apple Pie · Deep Cuts (85): Apple Strudel, Peach Crisp, Berry Cobbler

    One in a Krillion (100): Rødgrød med Fløde — This Danish red-berry pudding is so notoriously hard to pronounce that Danes use it as a party trick to test foreigners' accents.

  • Movies & TV · Name a character from the Toy Story movies (56 accepted answers)

    Safe answer (Plankton, 10): Woody · Deep Cuts (85): Sarge, Molly Davis, RC

    One in a Krillion (100): Combat Carl — This tough-talking action figure is voiced by real-life action star Carl Weathers — a toy essentially named after his own voice actor.

  • Music, Sports & Games · Name an actor who has won the Academy Award for Best Actor (84 accepted answers)

    Safe answer (Plankton, 10): Leonardo DiCaprio · Deep Cuts (85): Emil Jannings, Warner Baxter, Lionel Barrymore

    One in a Krillion (100): Art Carney — He beat Pacino, Nicholson, and Hoffman in 1975 playing a retiree road-tripping cross-country with his cat.

  • Brands & Things · Name a brand of protein or energy bar (57 accepted answers)

    Safe answer (Plankton, 10): Clif Bar · Deep Cuts (85): NuGo Nutrition, EAS Myoplex, Vega

    One in a Krillion (100): Bonk Breaker — Named after 'bonking' — cyclist slang for the moment your body suddenly runs out of fuel mid-ride.

  • Words & Knowledge · Name a word that means "strange" (65 accepted answers)

    Safe answer (Plankton, 10): Weird · Deep Cuts (85): Unconventional, Atypical, Deviant

    One in a Krillion (100): Fey — In old Scots, fey didn't just mean strange or otherworldly, it also meant someone was fated to die soon, as if eeriness and doom shared a 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.