The Best Krillion Answers Ever Recorded (From 49 Days of Real Sheets)
Every answer on this site’s archive is a real submission the game actually graded — and across the 49 daily sheets I’ve logged since launch, exactly 391 answers have earned the top tier, One in a Krillion, worth 100 points each. This is the hall of fame: the best Krillion answers ever recorded, picked from that complete set, each with the date it hit, the prompt it beat, and why it scored.
What “best” means in Krillion
“Best” has a hard ceiling in this game: the One in a Krillion tier, a valid answer almost nobody else submitted, worth 100 points — a full 1,000 meters of dive depth in a single word. It is rare by design. Across the 343 prompts I’ve logged, the tier holds a median of just one answer per prompt, and 6 prompts produced no perfect answer at all — a country with a four-letter name, an official Disney Princess, a chemical element that’s a gas at room temperature. On those days the smartest players topped out at Deep Cut and the 100-point slot simply went unclaimed.
That scarcity is the point, and it’s also a caveat worth stating honestly: the roster counts distinct valid answers, not how many players submitted each one. So “best” here means the answer that threaded the narrowest needle — correct, and almost entirely un-thought-of — on a specific day. The game’s verdict, not my opinion. Everything below is pulled from the archive and can be checked against the sheet for the date given.
The hall of fame
Twelve picks, roughly ordered by how completely they outclassed their own prompt. Each links to the sheet where it happened.
Miracle fruit — “Name a fruit,” August 29 (Dive #45). My single favorite answer in the archive. The prompt is one word. The Plankton tier was apple, banana, grape, orange and strawberry. Miracle fruit — the berry that makes sour taste sweet — sat above 759 Deep Cut answers as the day’s only perfect score. Pure angle, zero trivia flex.
Eddie Eagan — “an athlete with multiple Olympic gold medals,” September 2 (Dive #49). Gold in boxing in 1920, then gold in bobsledding in 1932 — a different sport, a different season. The game’s own quip says it best. He shared the tier with Ray Ewry, who won eight golds in the standing jumps after childhood polio. Two perfect answers on one prompt, above 701 Deep Cuts.
The Larry Sanders Show — “an HBO show,” September 2 (Dive #49). Garry Shandling’s 1992 talk-show satire was the only perfect answer on a prompt with 528 Deep Cuts — while Game of Thrones, The Sopranos, Euphoria and The Last of Us all sat at Plankton. The biggest shows sank; the foundational one scored.
Ophicleide — “a brass instrument,” August 24 (Dive #40). The prompt’s whole story in one column: trombone, trumpet and tuba were Plankton; the saxophone and the flugelhorn were judged Too Clever; and the ophicleide — a keyed brass ancestor of the tuba — was the only 100-point answer. The tier ladder, demonstrated on a single prompt.
Jordan — “a country with a coastline on the Indian Ocean,” August 22 (Dive #38). Jordan’s Gulf of Aqaba coast is legally an Indian-Ocean coastline, and almost nobody’s first association reaches it. Australia and India — the two biggest possible answers — were Plankton. The perfect answer was the technically correct corner of the map.
Punt gun — “a type of gun,” September 2 (Dive #49). A boat-mounted monster that could drop fifty ducks per shot, per the game’s note. It stood alone above 222 Deep Cuts on a prompt where “machine gun,” “pistol,” “rifle” and “shotgun” were the entire Plankton tier.
Babirusa — “an animal whose name starts with B,” September 1 (Dive #48). The highest Deep Cut count I’ve ever logged — 2,401 answers — and above them all, one perfect pick: the babirusa, whose upper tusks can curl back and pierce its own skull. The broader the prompt, the more the perfect answer rewards the genuinely unexpected.
Novotny — “a chess term,” September 2 (Dive #49). A study idea where you sacrifice a piece on the exact square where two enemy pieces cross. One perfect answer above 363 Deep Cuts, on a prompt where “checkmate,” “stalemate,” “check” and “castling” were Plankton.
Balut — “a street food from anywhere in the world,” August 24 (Dive #40). The fertilized duck egg sold by street vendors was one of two perfect answers (alongside Rolex, the Ugandan street snack — not the watch) above 160 Deep Cuts. “Anywhere in the world” is an invitation the crowd rarely takes.
Kuaishou — “a platform where you can scroll short-form videos,” August 24 (Dive #40). Instagram, TikTok and YouTube were Plankton; Facebook and Snapchat were only Schooler; and Kuaishou — the Chinese short-video giant — was the day’s lone perfect answer. A reminder that the crowd’s map of the world has blind spots you can aim for.
Middlemist’s Red — “a type of flower,” July 20 (Dive #6). One of the rarest flowers on Earth — only a handful of known specimens — answering a prompt most players met with “rose” and “tulip.” Sometimes the perfect answer is literally the rarest thing in the category.
Wings — “a movie that won the Best Picture Oscar,” July 18 (Dive #4). The first film ever to win Best Picture, in 1929. The crowd reaches for the famous winners; the perfect answer reached back to the very first one.
Patterns the best answers share
Laying these twelve side by side, three patterns repeat. Specific beats strange. The perfect answer is almost never a weird word — it’s a precise one. Miracle fruit, the ophicleide and Kuaishou are all real, checkable, ordinary-in-their-niche things. Angle beats knowledge. Jordan and Wings didn’t require knowing more than the crowd; they required approaching the prompt from a corner the crowd skipped. And the obvious “great” answer sinks. The same sheets that crowned these twelve also parked Michael Phelps, Simone Biles and Usain Bolt at Plankton on September 2 — three global superstars, ten points each, because everyone wrote them down. Being famous is exactly what makes an answer cheap.
One honest limitation: these patterns are my read of 391 perfect answers, not a formula. There is no prompt type where a 100-pointer can be forced, and the 6 prompts with no perfect answer at all are the proof. The tier rewards real expertise meeting the right day — you can widen your range, but you can’t schedule the accident.
How to find your own
You can’t conjure a perfect answer, but you can raise the odds you’re holding one when the right prompt lands. Study the tier mechanics on the rarity tiers page so you know what the game is actually pricing. Work the skip-the-first-idea habit in our strategy guide — every answer above is a “second answer,” never a first. Browse every question ever asked to see which corners of each category stay uncrowded. And when you think you’ve got something, run it through the answer checker against all 36,000+ answers on record before tomorrow’s dive.
Frequently asked questions
What is the highest score in Krillion?
100 points, from a single One in a Krillion answer — the rarest of the six tiers. Seven of them on one daily dive would make a perfect 700. Across the 49 sheets we’ve logged, no prompt has ever held more than two perfect answers at once.
Has anyone scored a perfect 700 in Krillion?
There’s no public leaderboard, so nobody can confirm it either way — but the sheets make it effectively impossible. Six of the 343 prompts we’ve logged produced no One in a Krillion answer at all, and most prompts hold exactly one. A perfect dive would require finding the single rarest valid answer to all seven prompts on the same day.
What is a One in a Krillion answer worth?
100 points, which converts to 1,000 meters of dive depth at the game’s rate of 10 meters per point. It’s ten times a Plankton answer (10 points) and nearly triple a Schooler (30).