Krillion Recorded answers
50 recorded answers
How to approach it
Write the pool out as a tally first: one rare consonant, two vowels, two liquids and a nasal. Work by length rather than meaning — three-letter strings first, because they are the most numerous, then four, then the few five-letter assemblies the pool can support. For every candidate run the same mechanical check: does it spend a letter more times than the tally allows? Most fall there. Whatever survives goes to a large dictionary, including archaic and dialect labels that a spellchecker ignores. Group the keeps by opening letter so you can see which corners you have exhausted, then repeat with the doubled letters shifted to new positions.
Get a hint
Start by taking inventory of the pool: eight tiles, but only six distinct letters, with a doubled vowel and a doubled liquid consonant. Those pairs are what let longer shapes appear.
A little more
Once the inventory is fixed, sweep by word class instead of theme: short nouns and verbs that survive only in specialist glossaries, regional dialect records and older layers of the dictionary.
One step further
Narrow the search to shapes that use the rare consonant: it almost never stands alone, so scan the clusters where it meets a nasal or a liquid, and the short endings that old words use to name a thing or an action.
Reveal answers 50
- inroOne in a Krillion100points
- ikonDeep Cut85points
- kinoDeep Cut85points
- kirDeep Cut85points
- kiriDeep Cut85points
- kirnDeep Cut85points
- konDeep Cut85points
- korDeep Cut85points
- likinDeep Cut85points
- liloDeep Cut85points
- linoDeep Cut85points
- liriDeep Cut85points
- lirkDeep Cut85points
- loirDeep Cut85points
- lorDeep Cut85points
- lornDeep Cut85points
- nillDeep Cut85points
- nirlDeep Cut85points
- noilDeep Cut85points
- nollDeep Cut85points
- norkDeep Cut85points
- oikDeep Cut85points
- rillDeep Cut85points
- rinDeep Cut85points
- roinDeep Cut85points
- ilkRare60points
- irkRare60points
- kilnRare60points
- knollRare60points
- koiRare60points
- nilRare60points
- noriRare60points
- roilRare60points
- inkSchooler30points
- ionSchooler30points
- kiloSchooler30points
- kinSchooler30points
- loinSchooler30points
- noirSchooler30points
- norSchooler30points
- oinkSchooler30points
- rinkSchooler30points
- illPlankton10points
- ironPlankton10points
- killPlankton10points
- krillPlankton10points
- linkPlankton10points
- lionPlankton10points
- oilPlankton10points
- rollPlankton10points
Why these answers count
The bands track obscurity rather than length. The 60-point group is where the accessible vocabulary sits: nil (60), irk (60) and roil (60) come quickly to almost anyone who tries the pool, and even the slightly less obvious kiln (60), koi (60) and nori (60) were recorded by enough players to stay at the floor. Every point above that was bought with unfamiliarity. The 85-point block is dictionary-digging territory — loir (85), oik (85) and lirk (85) are words most solvers have never met, so far fewer of them were entered. And the lone 100-point answer, inro (100), is a craft loanword that almost nobody extracts from eight letters. Length barely matters: rill (85) and rin (85) earn as much as any long entry, while the short and familiar nil (60) stays at the bottom. Rarity, not size, sets the price.