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Krillion Unlimited #73 (November 12, 2026)

The daily dive from Thursday, November 12, 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 #73
  1. Geography
    Name a country starting with the letter C
  2. Animals & Nature
    Name an animal whose name starts with the letter I
  3. Food & Drink
    Name a type of squash or gourd
  4. Movies & TV
    Name a movie featuring a courtroom trial
  5. Music, Sports & Games
    Name a celebrity chef
  6. Brands & Things
    Name a brand of jewelry
  7. Words & Knowledge
    Name a word that means "to hide"

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 #73 in numbers

Dive #73 (Thursday, November 12, 2026) accepted 364 different answers across its seven prompts. The widest bank was Name a celebrity chef with 80 answers; the narrowest was Name a country starting with the letter C with 19, 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 #73
  • Geography · Name a country starting with the letter C (19 accepted answers)

    Safe answer (Plankton, 10): Canada · Deep Cuts (85): Curaçao, Cook Islands

    One in a Krillion (100): Comoros — This tiny volcanic archipelago supplies roughly 80% of the world's ylang-ylang, the flower oil behind Chanel No. 5's scent.

  • Animals & Nature · Name an animal whose name starts with the letter I (38 accepted answers)

    Safe answer (Plankton, 10): Iguana · Deep Cuts (85): Ibisbill, Isabelline Shrike, Irukandji Jellyfish

    One in a Krillion (100): Inland Taipan — One bite carries enough venom to kill about 100 grown men, yet this shy desert snake has never been recorded killing anyone.

  • Food & Drink · Name a type of squash or gourd (36 accepted answers)

    Safe answer (Plankton, 10): Pumpkin · Deep Cuts (85): Snake Gourd, Ridge Gourd, Ivy Gourd

    One in a Krillion (100): Tromboncino Squash — This Italian heirloom squash grows up to three feet long and curls like a trombone, with all its seeds packed into the bulbous tip so the long neck is solid, seedless flesh.

  • Movies & TV · Name a movie featuring a courtroom trial (67 accepted answers)

    Safe answer (Plankton, 10): To Kill a Mockingbird · Deep Cuts (85): The Caine Mutiny, Breaker Morant, Paths of Glory

    One in a Krillion (100): A Cry in the Dark — Meryl Streep earned an Oscar nomination playing Lindy Chamberlain in this dramatization of the real 'a dingo ate my baby' trial.

  • Music, Sports & Games · Name a celebrity chef (80 accepted answers)

    Safe answer (Plankton, 10): Gordon Ramsay · Deep Cuts (85): Cat Cora, Rick Bayless, Gino D'Acampo

    One in a Krillion (100): Clarissa Dickson Wright — She co-hosted the BBC's 'Two Fat Ladies', riding a motorcycle with a sidecar to reach every filming location.

  • Brands & Things · Name a brand of jewelry (67 accepted answers)

    Safe answer (Plankton, 10): Tiffany & Co. · Deep Cuts (85): Monica Vinader, Pomellato, Chaumet

    One in a Krillion (100): Ilias Lalaounis — This Greek jeweler recreated ancient Minoan and Byzantine gold techniques so faithfully that his family later opened a jewelry museum in Athens.

  • Words & Knowledge · Name a word that means "to hide" (57 accepted answers)

    Safe answer (Plankton, 10): Conceal · Deep Cuts (85): Enshroud, Sequester, Seclude

    One in a Krillion (100): Obnubilate — This 16th-century word for 'to darken or hide' shares its Latin root (nubes, 'cloud') with nebula and nuance.

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.