Krillion Scoring
Krillion scoring rewards depth of thought, not speed of recall. This guide explains the whole system in one read: the six rarity tiers, the points each pays, the 10-meters-per-point depth rule, and how the ocean zones turn your total into a journey toward the 7,000-meter abyssal floor. Master the table below and you will never wonder again why one right answer scored 5 points while another scored 100.
The Six Krillion Scoring Tiers
Every accepted answer on a sheet belongs to exactly one tier, graded by how many players would realistically land on it. The Krillion scoring table in full:
| Tier | Points | Depth | Who lands here |
|---|---|---|---|
| Plankton | +5 | 50 m | The first answer that pops into almost every player's head. Valid, but everyone found it. |
| Too Clever | +10 | 100 m | The cheeky answer every try-hard gives. Feels smart, yet thousands of players give it too. |
| Schooler | +25 | 250 m | A solid answer that swims with the school. Plenty of players land here. |
| Rare | +40 | 400 m | Now you are thinking. Only a small share of players sink this deep. |
| Deep Cut | +60 | 600 m | A genuinely deep answer. Most players never reach this depth. |
| One in a Krillion | +100 | 1000 m | The rarest of the rare. If you found this, you are one in a krillion. |
Note the deliberate gap between “right” and “valuable”: a Plankton answer is fully correct and worth almost nothing, while a One in a Krillion find pays twenty times more for being the same kind of correct. That inversion is the entire strategy of the game.
From Points to Depth: the 10-Meter Rule
After seven prompts, Krillion scoring converts your total into a descent: one point, 10 meters. The mapping is linear and exact — 385 points is a 3,850-meter dive, full stop — but the zones it crosses make the number feel like a place:
- Sunlight Zone (0–200m): mostly Plankton and Too Clever answers. Everyone starts here; nobody wins here.
- Twilight Zone (200–1,000m): Schooler country — solid picks that most players skip past on their way to the obvious.
- Midnight Zone (1,000–4,000m): Rare and Deep Cut territory. The water is dark; the answers are darker.
- Abyssal Zone (4,000–7,000m): repeated One in a Krillion finds. The floor sits exactly at 700 points, and almost nobody touches it.
If you want to test how a set of rounds converts before playing them, the Krillion score calculator runs the same rule on any seven-tier combination you enter.
Krillion Scoring in a Real Example
A single real prompt shows the whole system at work. “Name a country in Europe?” from our bank accepts 40 answers — here is what six of them pay:
Six valid answers to one prompt, a twenty-fold spread in value. Choosing San Marino over France is worth as much as winning an entire extra prompt — that is Krillion scoring in one line.
Want to verify where your own words landed? The answer checker grades any word against every sheet in the bank.
Scoring Higher, from the Community
The scoring system rewards a learnable skill — thinking rare under pressure — and the community has been teaching it on short-form video since the game broke out. These real clips are where much of the current Krillion strategy lives:
- Krillion! Where obscure answers score best — the core principle of the tier system in one clip.
- How to think of rare answers fast — the mental models that turn Plankton instincts into Deep Cut finds.
- Krillion deep-dive playthrough — a full run with scoring decisions narrated round by round.
Pair the videos with practice: watch one, then take an Unlimited round while the habits are fresh.
What Is the Average Krillion Score?
There is no official global average — Krillion scoring depends entirely on the sheets a dive serves — but the arithmetic of our seven-prompt format puts honest bounds on it. A player who answers on pure first instinct lands almost every round in Plankton and Too Clever: a dive in the 35–95 point band (350–950 meters, still in the Sunlight and Twilight zones). Mixing in a couple of Schooler picks lifts a typical attentive dive into the 100–200 point band — roughly 1,000–2,000 meters, mid-Twilight.
From there, each Rare (+40), Deep Cut (+60) or One in a Krillion (+100) answer adds a visible jump: dives above 280 points mean you averaged better than Schooler on every round, and anything beyond 450 requires multiple top-tier finds in a single run. The full 700-point maximum demands One in a Krillion on all seven prompts.
Who decides which tier an answer belongs to? On this site our own team grades every sheet, ranking each accepted answer by how many players would realistically find it. The official game describes the same philosophy with real data behind it: answer sets aggregated from dictionaries, wikis and encyclopedias, then rarity judged against a familiarity database of how often words actually appear in what people read and write, checked with LLM assistance and a manual pass. Different banks, same principle — commonness is the score.
To place your own result on that scale, run it through the Krillion score calculator and compare the depth it reports against the zones above.
Krillion Scoring – FAQ
How does Krillion scoring work?
Each of the 7 prompts scores you by the rarity of your answer, not its correctness alone. Every valid answer belongs to one of six tiers — Plankton +5, Too Clever +10, Schooler +25, Rare +40, Deep Cut +60 and One in a Krillion +100 — and your dive total is simply the sum of your seven picks. Every point then converts to 10 meters of dive depth.
What is the highest possible Krillion score?
700 points: seven One in a Krillion answers at 100 points each. That perfect dive sinks you 7,000 meters to the abyssal floor — the deepest result the game can produce.
How is rarity decided when grading answers?
On this site our team writes and grades every sheet ourselves. The official game, for reference, explains that it aggregates dictionaries, wikis and encyclopedias into merged answer sets, then judges rarity with a familiarity database of how often a word actually turns up in what people read and write, helped by LLM assistance and a manual review pass.
What is depth in Krillion?
Depth is your score made visible: 10 meters per point, so 385 points means a 3,850-meter dive. The depth bar crosses real ocean zones — sunlight (to 200m), twilight (to 1,000m), midnight (to 4,000m) and the abyssal floor at 7,000m — which is why the game wraps scoring in a deep-sea dive.
Why did my answer score fewer points than expected?
Almost always the Too Clever trap: the answer that feels like a clever outlier but is actually a crowd favorite — Iceland among European countries, tomato among fruits. It scores +10, barely above the obvious pick. The fix is to skip not just the first instinct but the try-hard one too.
Do misses or timeouts hurt my score?
They score zero rather than subtracting, so a miss costs only the points you might have earned. Wrong guesses are also free while the 25-second clock still runs — which is why experienced players keep firing alternatives instead of locking in a weak answer early.