Methodology: How Each Daily Sheet Is Compiled
Trust starts with showing your work. This page documents exactly where our answer sheets come from, when they are fetched, how they are checked, and what happens when something is wrong.
Data source
Every sheet on this site is compiled from the public daily puzzle data published by the official game at krillion.io — the same information the game itself reveals to players after each day's dive. We do not scrape other answer sites, crowdsource guesses, or invent answers. If an answer is on our page, it is on the game's own list, in the tier the game assigned to it.
Daily update process
- Reset. Krillion resets daily at 04:00 UTC (midnight US Eastern). The previous dive's full answer list becomes public at that moment.
- Fetch. An automated job runs minutes after the reset (scheduled for 04:20 UTC, with a 05:00 UTC backstop). It requests the day's sheet with a normal, identified browser request — one fetch, no hammering — and retries politely if the sheet is not ready yet.
- Validate. The sheet is checked before publishing: the six tier keys must match the game's known tiers (krillion, deepcut, rare, schooler, tooclever, plankton), every answer needs a valid score, and a sheet with zero answers is refused outright rather than published half-empty.
- Publish. The sheet is stored as a dated JSON file in our public repository and the static site is rebuilt: a new archive page appears, the homepage rolls forward, and the sitemap updates.
What we add — and what we never change
We group answers by tier, alphabetize within tiers, and add navigational context (dive numbers, dates, depth math at 1 point = 10 meters). We never edit, add, or remove answers, and we never re-grade a tier. The game's quips — the short notes attached to some answers — are reproduced unchanged.
Honest limitations
- History starts the day this site launched. The game's public data only exposes the current day's sheet, so we cannot backfill dives from before our first fetch — the archive grows one day at a time, honestly.
- Automation can fail. If the game's data endpoint is unavailable at fetch time, that day's sheet will be late rather than fabricated. The countdown on the homepage always reflects the official reset time.
- We are players, not the game's creators. Interpretive content (strategy, tier explanations) is our own analysis and may occasionally differ from the creators' intent.
Corrections
Found a discrepancy between our sheet and the game? Tell us via the contact page or contact@krilliongame.net. Verified corrections are applied to the archive with the sheet's “last verified” date updated.