Krillion Answers for October 26, 2026

October 26, 2026 · Daily Dive #103

October 26, 2026, Dive #103, stores 12,546 names. The longest list is “Name a Latin American dish” (4,584 recorded) and the shortest is “Name something used to hit a ball in a sport (the same tool counts once across sports)” (26). 11,511 score 85 or higher.

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12,546 recorded names11,511 at 85 or higher7 questions with an 85+ name

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Name a currency worth less than the US dollar

145 recorded answers

How to approach it

Work from the exchange-rate board rather than from memory of currency names. Mentally sort the world into strong-quotation and weak-quotation camps: a handful of units sit above the benchmark, a large middle band clusters not far below it, and a long tail trades in the hundreds, thousands or millions per unit. Choose the band you can actually enumerate, then write down every name you can recall from that band before judging any of them. Spelling matters less than recognisability, but an answer that is unmistakably one country's official tender beats a vague or informal label. If two candidates feel equally good, prefer the one more players are likely to have typed, then stop: scoring rewards being inside the crowd, not being clever.

Get a hint

Start with the geography of money: most of the world's monetary units are quoted far below the benchmark, so the field is wide open and the real difficulty lies in picking one you can name without hesitating.

A little more

Narrow the map by continent, then by the size and openness of each economy — small, import-heavy or devaluation-prone economies tend to quote their units at hundreds or thousands per benchmark unit.

One step further

Recall the units whose names describe a weight of metal or a fraction of some older coin, and the ones that became separate tenders only after a recent redenomination; that vocabulary is what the reveal rewards.

Reveal answers 145

Zimbabwe Gold (ZiG)One in a Krillion100points
Afghan afghaniDeep Cut85points
Albanian lekDeep Cut85points
Angolan kwanzaDeep Cut85points
Armenian dramDeep Cut85points
Aruban florinDeep Cut85points
Azerbaijani manatDeep Cut85points
Bangladeshi takaDeep Cut85points
Barbadian dollarDeep Cut85points
Belarusian rubleDeep Cut85points
Belize dollarDeep Cut85points
Bhutanese ngultrumDeep Cut85points

Why these answers count

The reveal is enormous — 145 recorded answers — and it is dominated by a single tier: 107 answers landed at 85 points, with only one at 100 and 19 at 60. That shape tells you the crowd converged almost instantly. Any recognised national tender quoted well below the benchmark scored the standard 85, from the Afghan afghani and the Albanian lek through to the Malawian kwacha; naming one of those was enough to be safely inside the majority. Reaching 100 required the outlier: Zimbabwe Gold (ZiG), a very recent unit that few players thought to type, so it stood alone at the top. The 60-point band is where answers were real but less familiar or less cleanly named, still counted yet shared by far fewer players. Rarer picks earn more because scoring compares your answer with everyone else's, so the moment a currency is obvious to the whole room its value collapses to the floor of the top tier.

Open question & recorded answers

Name a city whose name ends in -ton

3,490 recorded answers

How to approach it

Treat the suffix as a filter rather than a search term. First, empty your memory of towns you already know, then deliberately shrink the scale: think of the smallest named places you have ever seen on a map, in a postal address or on a road sign, because that is where the density lies. Next, work the morphology: take a handful of common first elements and try attaching them to the ending, then do the reverse and test longer tails that merely contain it. Keep a running list and deduplicate hard, since variants differing by one letter are the difference between a fresh answer and a repeat. Finally, sweep beyond the familiar naming region into transliterated forms and multi-word official names, which is where the unclaimed entries concentrate.

Get a hint

Begin with the ending itself: it is one of the most productive settlement suffixes in a whole family of related naming traditions, so the pool runs to thousands of entries and the reward comes from depth rather than from spotting the pattern.

A little more

Move from endings to shapes: many qualifying names are compounds whose first element is a personal name, a tree, a stream or a direction word, and a large share hide the ending inside longer tails such as -ston, -nton or -lton, so scanning those patterns multiplies your list.

One step further

The richest seam is the tier most players skip: tiny hamlets, absorbed suburban districts, isolated parish centres and transliterated names from unrelated naming systems, where near-identical forms cluster and each fresh variant is still unclaimed.

Reveal answers 3,490

ThatonOne in a Krillion100points
20-solagii Istiqlolijati ToçikistonDeep Cut85points
AbbertonDeep Cut85points
Abbey HultonDeep Cut85points
Abbots BickingtonDeep Cut85points
Abbots MortonDeep Cut85points
Abbots RiptonDeep Cut85points
Abbotts BartonDeep Cut85points
AbenastonDeep Cut85points
AblingtonDeep Cut85points
AccringtonDeep Cut85points
AckletonDeep Cut85points

Why these answers count

A flat top tells the story: 3349 of the 3472 recorded answers sit on 85 points, so the scorer accepted almost any genuine settlement and then separated players by duplication rather than by obscurity alone. The solitary 100 went to Thaton, the rarest entry the scorer recognised, while entries such as Abberton and Accrington held 85 but shared their credit with a crowd. The 99 answers at 60 most plausibly represent the widely repeated choices, still correct but crowded enough for the overlap penalty to bite. Rarity therefore paid in one direction only: not exotic spelling for its own sake, but distance from whatever the average solver types first. A one-letter variant of a popular name earns less than an unfashionable hamlet, and the multi-word, hyphenated and transliterated forms in the list are the ones that stayed cheap to claim. Depth of recall beat cleverness.

Open question & recorded answers

Name something traditionally expressed as a percentage (like body fat)

2,212 recorded answers

How to approach it

Sweep disciplines one at a time instead of chasing synonyms for the clue in brackets, since breadth is what pays. The productive question is which standard figure in a given trade is habitually written with a percent sign and not as a fraction, a decimal or a count. Money, clinical research, sports analytics, farming, factory quality and social surveys each hold long tails of such measures, and the tail is where the points sit. Inside a chosen field, drill from the obvious headline number down to the specialist variants that practitioners quote and outsiders never mention. Jot candidates in bulk before judging them: the middle band is crowded, and only unusual entries lift a solid list into a great one.

Get a hint

Begin with the professional vocabularies, because money, clinical research, engineering and sports analytics each keep a stock of figures quoted with a percent sign rather than as a plain fraction.

A little more

Then turn to social and household statistics, where coverage, participation, uptake and completion are almost always given as a share of a clearly defined population.

One step further

Finally probe narrow technical corners, where one specialised ratio, loss or content figure is second nature inside a trade and practically unknown beyond it.

Reveal answers 2,212

AlbedoOne in a Krillion100points
€STRDeep Cut85points
10-year cardiovascular riskDeep Cut85points
12b-1 feeDeep Cut85points
30-day mortalityDeep Cut85points
401(k) participation rateDeep Cut85points
Abandonment rateDeep Cut85points
Abnormal returnDeep Cut85points
Abortion rate (livestock)Deep Cut85points
Above-the-break three-point percentageDeep Cut85points
Absenteeism rateDeep Cut85points
Absolute returnDeep Cut85points

Why these answers count

Points fall as more players choose the same entry, so the reveal reads as a map of consensus rather than a test of knowledge. Broad, instantly reachable measures sit at the bottom of the top band: 300 recorded answers earned 60 points, meaning plenty of people converged on the same handful of headline figures. A vast middle tier of 1836 answers earned 85, and that list shows what separates it from the floor: precision inside a field rather than celebrity. Entries such as a mutual fund distribution charge (12b-1 fee, 85), a short-term euro area lending benchmark (€STR, 85) or a post-procedure death rate (30-day mortality, 85) are professional terms rather than general knowledge, yet still familiar enough to be shared by a few players. Abandonment rate (85) lands in the same tier for the same reason. The lone 100-point entry, Albedo, was matched by nobody else, which is the lesson: the summit belongs to one narrow technical reading of the prompt that no rival tried.

Open question & recorded answers

Name something used to hit a ball in a sport (the same tool counts once across sports)

26 recorded answers

How to approach it

The productive method is a structured sweep, not free association. List sports by family — field games, court games, handball codes, equestrian ball games, table games and their adaptive equivalents — then ask what in each one actually makes contact with the ball. Record the contact object exactly as that sport names it; regional games often use one word for both game and tool, which is why an unfamiliar vocabulary pays. Deduplicate ruthlessly: a single implement appearing in four disciplines is still one entry, so extra sports add nothing unless they introduce new equipment. Finally rank the list by how many solvers would reach for it unprompted. Everyday objects and legal body contacts are cheap, safe picks; anything with a foreign or archaic name is where the survey's upper tier sits.

Get a hint

Start with the biggest sport families on the planet and work outward to regional and minority games, since a broad sweep of disciplines will surface names most players never consider.

A little more

Next, sort candidates by the kind of contact involved: something swung from a handle, something bound to the arm, or a limb the rules allow you to strike with in certain codes.

One step further

For the rarest tier, dig into historic folk sports, imported colonial-era pastimes and disability sport, where the equipment often carries a local name that no general solver would guess.

Reveal answers 26

TamburelloOne in a Krillion100points
BicycleDeep Cut85points
BraccialeDeep Cut85points
BroomDeep Cut85points
HurleyDeep Cut85points
PalaDeep Cut85points
PowerchairDeep Cut85points
Shinty stickDeep Cut85points
ChestRare60points
Cue ballRare60points
FistRare60points
ForearmRare60points

Why these answers count

Only sixteen of the twenty-six recorded answers cleared sixty points, which tells you the survey sorted by how many people landed on an answer independently. The reflex picks formed the base of the band: broom, chest, cue ball, fist, forearm, hip, hurley, knee, shoulder and thigh all paid sixty. Note that body contact was accepted and that even a ball used to strike other balls qualified, so the compiler was generous about what counted but strict about rarity. The middle tier, at eighty-five, went to bicycle, bracciale, pala, powerchair and shinty stick, names that followers of particular codes recognise instantly and everyone else misses. The lone hundred-pointer, tamburello, sits at the far end because the sport and its tool share one word, so reaching it takes either specialised knowledge or a lucky guess. Breadth of sporting vocabulary is what pays here: the odd, local and adapted corners of the sporting world outscore the obvious by a wide margin.

Open question & recorded answers

Name a Latin American dish

4,584 recorded answers

How to approach it

A structured sweep beats free recall here. Divide the region into national kitchens and, for each one, walk the same order: soups and stews, grain-based mains, grilled or fried plates, street snacks, festive breads and pastries, sweets, drinks. Note whatever surfaces in each slot even when the name is only half remembered, since scoring rewards volume and precision far more than elegance. Then run a second pass by technique and cooking vessel, and a third by qualifying word, because many entries are a base preparation narrowed by a region, a sauce or a filling. Keep every candidate as a separate entry instead of merging close relatives; the reveal counts them apart.

Get a hint

Start with the everyday repertoire — slow-cooked stews, rice and corn mains, grilled or fried plates and griddle breads — then widen outward from there.

A little more

Move next to street and celebration level: fried snacks, stuffed pastries, leaf-wrapped parcels, hearty soups and sweets that are sold under their own names in markets.

One step further

At the narrow end sit entries whose names are compound, a base preparation qualified by a locality, a sauce, a specific cut of meat or the cooking vessel involved.

Reveal answers 4,584

Hormigas culonasOne in a Krillion100points
Abacaxi assado com canelaDeep Cut85points
AbaráDeep Cut85points
AberémDeep Cut85points
AborrajadoDeep Cut85points
Aborrajados de pescadoDeep Cut85points
AcaçáDeep Cut85points
AcachulDeep Cut85points
Açaí com peixe fritoDeep Cut85points
Acamayas al mojo de ajoDeep Cut85points
Acarahuazú en hojasDeep Cut85points
AccrasDeep Cut85points

Why these answers count

Points here track rarity inside the recorded set, not correctness. Almost every accepted entry landed at 85, a broad middle band of regional specialities that a well-travelled eater recognises but that hardly anyone types first. Only a single entry in the whole reveal reached 100, Hormigas culonas, a dish built on insects that most players would never think to name. The 491 entries worth 60 are the familiar, heavily repeated plates that nearly everyone offers: accepted, but paid the least. Concreteness is what lifts a guess. A bare, generic name stays cheap, while a qualified variant counts as its own recorded answer and collects the higher band — Aborrajados de pescado rather than the plain fritter, Ajiaco de cuy rather than the everyday stew. That is why the 85 tier is so crowded: it rewards anyone who pushes past the obvious national staples into named local versions and punishes stopping at the first thing that comes to mind. Stacking several qualified variants beats hunting for one perfect rarity.

Open question & recorded answers

Name a fruit or vegetable with a one-syllable name

54 recorded answers

How to approach it

Generation and filtering are separate jobs, and doing them in that order keeps you from stalling. Sweep subcategories one at a time — tree and vine fruit, cane and bush fruit, roots and tubers, leaf crops, stem vegetables, sea vegetables, culinary herbs, and borrowed or dialect market words — writing down every candidate however odd it looks. Then apply the ear test: say each one aloud and count beats, throwing out anything that needs a second beat, a plural ending or a companion word to make sense. Ignore spelling, since written length says little about spoken rhythm. Finally, order the survivors from everyday to obscure and submit the strangest one you are confident about, because the pay-out rises the fewer players land on the same word.

Get a hint

Begin with the shortest produce words you might hear shouted across a market, then widen the search into rural and foraging speech where names are clipped, old and often borrowed.

A little more

Test candidates by ear rather than by eye: a long spelling can collapse into a single beat, and a short one may carry a vowel that turns it into two.

One step further

The deepest seam is regional and coastal vocabulary — hedgerow fruit, shoreline edibles, farm and garden terms that never make it onto supermarket signage — plus a few loanwords kept almost unchanged.

Reveal answers 54

SloeOne in a Krillion100points
BaelDeep Cut85points
BerDeep Cut85points
CepDeep Cut85points
CheDeep Cut85points
ChouDeep Cut85points
CosDeep Cut85points
CressDeep Cut85points
CrosneDeep Cut85points
DockDeep Cut85points
DulseDeep Cut85points
GacDeep Cut85points

Why these answers count

Because the pay-out tracks scarcity, the results read backwards from a shopping list. All eight of the plainest kitchen words — Chive, Cress, Cuke, Gourd, Kelp, Quince, Spud, Swede — sat on the 60 floor, since a word that comes to mind instantly comes to everyone else's too. The crowded middle is the interesting part: Bael, Ber, Cep, Cos, Crosne, Dock, Dulse, Gac, Gage, Gean, Gim, Guar, Haw, Hip, Jack, Mâche, Nance, Poke, Ramp, Scape, Sorb, Whort, Wrack and Yamp share 85 points, twenty-four answers stacked on one tier, which is what a band looks like when plenty of players reach it but nobody rushes there. Above them sits exactly one answer, Sloe, alone at 100. The pattern is consistent: a pick recognisable enough to be accepted yet unusual enough that few rivals produce it captures nearly all the value, and any hint of everydayness costs the top quarter of the scale. Thirty-three of the fifty recorded answers cleared 60; the other seventeen fell short.

Open question & recorded answers

Name a phone setting you can switch on and off

2,035 recorded answers

How to approach it

Work through the settings tree in your head rather than reaching for the first obvious switch. Take each top-level page in turn, covering sound, display, connection, calls, battery, privacy and accessibility, and ask what the device lets you turn off there. Then push one level deeper: sub-pages usually hold several separate switches, and the labels are often narrow and slightly awkward, which is exactly what makes them good answers. Write the label as it appears on screen instead of paraphrasing, and keep a long list before judging any of them. Volume matters more than polish here, because the pool of accepted entries is enormous and the scoring barely separates a plain toggle from an exotic one.

Get a hint

Start from the settings app itself and walk the top-level list: nearly every row you can enter hides at least one control that changes how the device behaves from that moment on.

A little more

Move into the sub-menus that govern senses and signals, meaning how the phone sounds, vibrates, lights up, connects, or reacts to touch, because those pages are dense with individual on and off controls.

One step further

Think of the narrow, oddly named switches buried two or three levels deep, the ones that govern a single behaviour such as a call-handling quirk, a photo-taking habit, or an accessibility aid, rather than the headline features.

Reveal answers 2,035

Chop for FlashlightOne in a Krillion100points
360 Audio RecordingDeep Cut85points
360 Reality AudioDeep Cut85points
3D TouchDeep Cut85points
4D Game VibrationDeep Cut85points
5G StandaloneDeep Cut85points
Access iCloud Data on the WebDeep Cut85points
Access Notes from Lock ScreenDeep Cut85points
Access RequestsDeep Cut85points
Access Within AppsDeep Cut85points
Accessibility ButtonDeep Cut85points
Accessibility MenuDeep Cut85points

Why these answers count

Out of 2030 recorded answers, the shape of the distribution is the story: 1719 sat in the 85-point band, 261 dropped to 60, and just one reached 100. That tells you the graders accepted almost anything that is genuinely a toggle on a modern handset, so the game was not about guessing a secret, it was about how precisely you described the switch. Entries such as Adaptive Audio (85), Bounce Keys (85), Call Barring (85) and Auto-Redial (85) share a pattern: each names one narrow, real behaviour rather than a whole feature area, and each could be read straight off a settings screen. The single 100, Chop for Flashlight (100), shows the payoff for a distinctive, oddly phrased control that few other players would think to write down. The 60-point tail is where vaguer or broader phrasings landed. Rarity still drives the ceiling: two thousand people can name a common toggle, but only one thought of that gesture.

Open question & recorded answers

Recorded from the game’s published reveal · Source · Checked 26 Oct, 05:16 UTC

Names and scores reflect the linked dated reveal. The original game makes the final decision on live acceptance. Editorial policy

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