Krillion Schooler Tier (30 Points): The Middle Rung
Schooler is Krillion’s middle tier: 30 points, 300 meters of dive depth, for a solid textbook answer — correct, respectable, and common enough that a classroom would nod along. The name fits the theme: a school of fish cruising mid-water, neither at the surface nor in the deep.
The Schooler tier in the data
Counted from every daily sheet we have logged since launch — July 16 through September 17, 2026, 64 days and 448 prompts:
| Tier | Score | Depth | Total answers | Avg per prompt | Most in one prompt |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Schooler | +30 | 300 m | 6,368 | 14.3 | 126 |
Average basis: averaged over the 446 of 448 prompts where the tier appears.
Schooler rosters run short — about 14 answers per prompt — because the band between 'everyone's answer' and 'genuinely uncommon' is narrow. Below it, Plankton holds the few ultra-obvious picks (4.4 per prompt) where the crowd's submissions pile up; above it, the Rare and Deep Cut lists explode in length as obscurity kicks in. Schooler is the thin middle shelf of the inverted pyramid.
Real Schooler examples
From launch day's "name an animal whose name starts with K" prompt — July 16, 2026's sheet shows the full roster these came from:
- Killer whale — the orca — famous, but not the first K-animal typed
- King cobra — the longest venomous snake
- Kingfisher — the river-dive fisherman of a bird
How to climb past Schooler
Schooler is the plateau where most regular players live: your knowledge is solid, but your retrieval order is the same as everyone else’s. The fix is not knowing more — it is reaching for the second or third thing you know.
The strategy guide’s category-sweep habit is built for exactly this jump, and the answer checker settles whether a candidate word would have counted on a past prompt before you risk it in practice.
Drill the instinct in practice mode — real past dives, real tiers, no timer and no risk.
Neighbors on the ladder
One tier down is Too Clever (15 points) — the technically-valid stretch. One tier up is Rare (60 points), a clean doubling that usually costs you nothing but one extra heartbeat of thinking.
Schooler also outscores the obvious trap: it beats Plankton three to one, so even a mid-tier habit beats a surface habit.
The full six-tier ladder — scores, depths and fresh examples from the latest dive — lives on the rarity tiers pillar.
Frequently asked questions
What is Schooler in Krillion?
Schooler is the middle of Krillion's six rarity tiers, worth 30 points — 300 meters of dive depth at 1 point per 10 meters. It marks a solid textbook answer: clearly correct and respectable, but common enough that a good slice of players submit it.
Why is the Schooler tier called that?
The game never spells it out, but the name fits the ocean theme: a school of fish cruising the mid-water — below the Plankton at the surface, above the Deep Cuts below. It also puns on 'schooled': the answer you learned in school.
How do I get past the Schooler tier?
Retrieval order, not knowledge, is the bottleneck. Skip your first association — it is the crowd's too — and take the next valid one. Across 448 logged prompts, Rare answers average 30 per prompt, so there is almost always a reachable answer one shelf deeper than Schooler.