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Krillion Unlimited #57 (October 27, 2026)

The daily dive from Tuesday, October 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 #57
  1. Geography
    Name a capital city in Africa
  2. Animals & Nature
    Name an animal that is a rodent
  3. Food & Drink
    Name a food typically served at a birthday party
  4. Movies & TV
    Name a TV cooking competition show
  5. Music, Sports & Games
    Name a Halloween costume idea
  6. Brands & Things
    Name an item found in a first aid kit
  7. Words & Knowledge
    Name a word that means "to sleep"

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 #57 in numbers

Dive #57 (Tuesday, October 27, 2026) accepted 504 different answers across its seven prompts. The widest bank was Name a Halloween costume idea with 152 answers; the narrowest was Name a word that means "to sleep" with 30, 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 #57
  • Geography · Name a capital city in Africa (61 accepted answers)

    Safe answer (Plankton, 10): Cairo · Deep Cuts (85): Ouagadougou, Praia, Bangui

    One in a Krillion (100): Gitega — Burundi quietly swapped its capital from Bujumbura to tiny Gitega in 2019, and it still has no international airport.

  • Animals & Nature · Name an animal that is a rodent (76 accepted answers)

    Safe answer (Plankton, 10): Mouse · Deep Cuts (85): Red Squirrel, Gray Squirrel, Fox Squirrel

    One in a Krillion (100): Maned Rat — It chews poisonous tree bark and licks the toxin onto special hairs on its back, making it one of the only venomous mammals on Earth.

  • Food & Drink · Name a food typically served at a birthday party (97 accepted answers)

    Safe answer (Plankton, 10): Birthday Cake · Deep Cuts (85): Funfetti Cake, Ice Cream Cake, Angel Food Cake

    One in a Krillion (100): Longevity Peach Buns — In Chinese birthday tradition, elders are given steamed buns shaped and dyed like peaches, since peaches symbolize immortality in Taoist mythology.

  • Movies & TV · Name a TV cooking competition show (42 accepted answers)

    Safe answer (Plankton, 10): MasterChef · Deep Cuts (85): Man vs. Child: Chef Showdown, Chopped Sweets, Tournament of Champions

    One in a Krillion (100): Baking Impossible — Bakers team up with engineers to build cake structures that then get crushed, driven over, or dropped to prove they can survive.

  • Music, Sports & Games · Name a Halloween costume idea (152 accepted answers)

    Safe answer (Plankton, 10): Witch · Deep Cuts (85): Dracula, Bride of Frankenstein, Headless Horseman

    One in a Krillion (100): The Babadook — A 2017 Netflix genre-tagging glitch filed this horror film under LGBT movies, and the internet ran with it, turning the monster into an accidental gay icon and cult Halloween costume.

  • Brands & Things · Name an item found in a first aid kit (46 accepted answers)

    Safe answer (Plankton, 10): Band-Aid · Deep Cuts (85): Butterfly Bandage, Duct Tape, Whistle

    One in a Krillion (100): Israeli Bandage — It was invented by an Israeli army medic using a bag of rubber bands and a curtain rod, and later became standard trauma gear for militaries and paramedics worldwide.

  • Words & Knowledge · Name a word that means "to sleep" (30 accepted answers)

    Safe answer (Plankton, 10): Nap · Deep Cuts (85): Hit the Pillow, Bed Down, Roost

    One in a Krillion (100): Doss — In British slang "to doss down" means to sleep in a makeshift or borrowed spot for the night — the same root gave us "doss house," old slang for a cheap flophouse.

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.