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Krillion Unlimited #48 (October 18, 2026)

The daily dive from Sunday, October 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 #48
  1. Geography
    Name a country whose name contains the letter Z
  2. Animals & Nature
    Name an animal whose name starts with the letter M
  3. Food & Drink
    Name a German dish
  4. Movies & TV
    Name a character from the TV show Breaking Bad
  5. Music, Sports & Games
    Name a newspaper comic strip
  6. Brands & Things
    Name a brand of guitar
  7. Words & Knowledge
    Name a word that means "to destroy"

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 #48 in numbers

Dive #48 (Sunday, October 18, 2026) accepted 410 different answers across its seven prompts. The widest bank was Name an animal whose name starts with the letter M with 123 answers; the narrowest was Name a country whose name contains the letter Z 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 #48
  • Geography · Name a country whose name contains the letter Z (14 accepted answers)

    Safe answer (Plankton, 10): Brazil · Deep Cuts (85): Kyrgyzstan

    One in a Krillion (100): Uzbekistan — Uzbekistan is one of only two countries on Earth that are 'doubly landlocked' — no matter which direction you travel, you must cross at least two borders to reach the ocean.

  • Animals & Nature · Name an animal whose name starts with the letter M (123 accepted answers)

    Safe answer (Plankton, 10): Monkey · Deep Cuts (85): Marten, Margay, Mara

    One in a Krillion (100): Matamata — This South American turtle's shell looks like bark and its face looks like dead leaves, letting it ambush fish with a sudden vacuum-suck of its mouth.

  • Food & Drink · Name a German dish (33 accepted answers)

    Safe answer (Plankton, 10): Bratwurst · Deep Cuts (85): Semmelknödel, Rote Grütze, Bienenstich

    One in a Krillion (100): Saumagen — Chancellor Helmut Kohl loved this humble stuffed pig's stomach so much he served it to state guests like Reagan and Gorbachev, turning Palatinate farm food into Cold War diplomacy.

  • Movies & TV · Name a character from the TV show Breaking Bad (42 accepted answers)

    Safe answer (Plankton, 10): Walter White · Deep Cuts (85): Ted Beneke, Bogdan Wolynetz, Marco Salamanca

    One in a Krillion (100): Donald Margolis — Jane's grieving air-traffic-controller father returned to work too soon and caused a mid-air collision over Albuquerque that killed 167 people.

  • Music, Sports & Games · Name a newspaper comic strip (81 accepted answers)

    Safe answer (Plankton, 10): Garfield · Deep Cuts (85): Li'l Abner, Big Nate, Luann

    One in a Krillion (100): Gasoline Alley — Its characters actually age in real time — a baby born in the strip in 1921 grew up, had kids, and is now a centenarian, all issue by issue since.

  • Brands & Things · Name a brand of guitar (43 accepted answers)

    Safe answer (Plankton, 10): Fender · Deep Cuts (85): Godin, Line 6, Steinberger

    One in a Krillion (100): G&L — Leo Fender started G&L (George and Leo) after leaving Fender, so it's technically the last guitar brand he ever founded.

  • Words & Knowledge · Name a word that means "to destroy" (74 accepted answers)

    Safe answer (Plankton, 10): Destroy · Deep Cuts (85): Sack, Ransack, Plunder

    One in a Krillion (100): Extirpate — Ecologists use this exact word for wiping a species out of one region entirely — total, official destruction with a scientific name.

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.