Krillion Unlimited

Krillion Unlimited is Guessto’s classic daily dive: seven open prompts, one answer each, and a score that cares more about rarity than about being merely right. Play it on guessto.org/krillocity under the same site header; this page is the long-form manual.

Everyone who plays on a given New York date receives the same seven prompts. That shared set is what makes a depth comparable from browser to browser. A prompt is a category, not a crossword clue and not a multiple-choice list. You read it, you think of one thing that belongs, and you type it. There is no board of options to eliminate. The ocean only responds after the server has checked the text against that day's prepared answers.

Each round opens with a three-second preview. Use it to read the whole sentence, including any condition such as a letter count, a continent, or a title length. The answering window is twenty-five seconds. The countdown and the shrinking bar are the same clock. You may submit as soon as the window opens. You may also wait. An empty box at the buzzer scores zero and the dive continues. If text is still in the box, the server checks that final string. A recognized answer can still score after the clock hits zero only when the client sent it as the timed submission inside a short network grace period. A late manual request cannot reopen a closed round.

Scoring is inverted from a typical quiz. A famous, correct answer is accepted and then barely moves you. A correct answer that fewer people reach is worth more. The six tiers are fixed point values, not a live poll of today's players. Plankton is 10 points: the answer almost everyone blurts out. Too Clever is 15: the supposedly obscure pick that a whole classroom still lands on. Schooler is 30: solid, correct, and swimming with the group. Rare is 60: uncommon, and a real pull. Deep Cut is 85: true obscurity. Abyss is 100: the designated gem at the bottom of that prompt. A blank or unrecognized answer is 0. The same prepared entry always keeps its configured points. The tier is a property of the answer in the bank, not a reward you negotiate after the fact.

Depth is arithmetic, shown as a descent. Every point is ten metres. A 10-point Plankton answer sinks you 100 metres. A 15-point Too Clever answer adds 150 metres. Schooler adds 300. Rare adds 600. Deep Cut adds 850. Abyss adds 1,000. Seven answers are added together. The ceiling is 700 points and 7,000 metres, which is seven Abyss answers and nothing else. A mixed dive is the normal one. Three obvious answers and four rarer ones produce a depth you can compare with anyone else who saw those prompts. The right-hand scale, the darkening water, and the result line all read the same total. Later prompts begin below the water you have already crossed. You are building one continuous dive, not seven separate quizzes.

The server owns the match. Capitalization, punctuation, and accents are normalized before comparison. A few answers carry aliases, so a common short form can hit the same entry as the full name. Typo correction is conservative. When a nearby spelling is the only close candidate, the game can show the replacement and ask you to submit again before it scores. Read that suggestion. A one-letter change can name a different thing. If you meant the original text, edit it while the window is still open. Rejection does not automatically zero the round. The status line says there was no echo, the timer keeps running, and you may try another string. Once an answer is accepted and stored, that round is locked. Refreshing the page resumes the same daily run. It does not grant a second daily score.

The daily date follows midnight in America/New_York, including the daylight-saving shift. Your laptop's local midnight does not mint a new puzzle. Practice is a separate run. It uses the same kind of prompts and the same six tiers, and it does not extend a daily streak or enter the daily comparison. A streak counts consecutive completed daily dates. Clearing site data on this browser drops the local copy of history. There is no account and no cross-device login. The server keeps a random browser identifier, the date, the accepted answers, the points, and the round timing. It does not ask for a name or an email.

The prompts are an original bank written for Krillion Unlimited. Thirty dates are shipped with the project, seven prompts on each date, and every accepted answer carries a written reason for its tier. Reference synchronization is off. The Worker does not request today's questions from any other game, and there is no admin path that turns that download back on. If you are reading this on a date inside the published window, the seven prompts are the ones in that day's file. Answers stay on the server until the dive is finished. The review sheet then lists the prepared entries by points so you can see which tier a guess would have earned.

After the seventh landing, Surface opens the report. You get the point total, the depth in metres, the band that total falls into, and a seven-mark log. The bands are ranges of the whole dive, which is a different view from the per-answer tiers. A dive can contain an Abyss answer and still finish in a middling band if the other six answers were obvious. The share text is the score, the depth, and a row of tier marks. It leaves the actual answers out, so someone else can still attempt the same categories. The copy step uses your browser. The game does not post to a social account for you.

The interface is built to be playable on a phone and on a desktop keyboard. Enter submits. The Dive button submits. Mute, low-power mode, and a higher-contrast color setting are in the panel. Reduced motion preferences cut the decorative movement. The long guide on the game page is collapsed during a round unless you open it. Close it to get the prompt back. Keep the tab in the foreground while the clock is running. A backgrounded mobile browser can suspend timers in ways that make the last seconds feel shorter than they are.

A practical approach is to find one safe answer first, then ask whether a second idea is both correct and less automatic. Specialized knowledge helps only when it fits the wording. A real dish, a real element, or a real title beats an invented rarity that the bank does not list. Do not spend the whole window hunting for the gem if a valid rarer-than-obvious answer is already in mind. If a correction appears, confirm it only when it is the thing you meant. After the dive, the review is how you learn the category. The next New York midnight brings a different set.

Krillion Unlimited is free in this release. There is no checkout, no credit balance, and no account unlock. The application code is MIT licensed. Attribution is in the LICENSE file and in THIRD_PARTY_NOTICES.md, which stay with the source. The pixel ocean, the sounds, and the puzzle text are part of this project. They are not official art or an official question list from anywhere else.

The six tiers

• Plankton, 10 points, 100 metres. The answer everyone reaches.
• Too Clever, 15 points, 150 metres. The fake-obscure answer the group still shares.
• Schooler, 30 points, 300 metres. Correct, and swimming with the school.
• Rare, 60 points, 600 metres. Uncommon, and worth the descent.
• Deep Cut, 85 points, 850 metres. Few players go this far.
• Abyss, 100 points, 1,000 metres. The designated gem for that prompt.

Want the music quiz instead? It stays on this site at the daily music quiz. Guessto Dive does not replace it, and this page does not frame the game inside the homepage.

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