Krillion Answers for July 22, 2026

The rarest possible answer — almost no player finds it.

• Maritsa— Forms three Balkan borders, between Bulgaria, Greece, and Turkey. A diplomatic river doing a lot of work.

Genuinely obscure. Most players never think of it.

• Aare
• Adige
• Axios
• Boyne
• Bug
• Cam
• Clyde
• Daugava
• Dee
• Dordogne
• Douro
• Drava
• Drina
• Forth
• Glomma
• Guadiana
• Isar
• Kama
• Maas
• Marne
• Mersey
• Mino
• Morava
• Moskva
• Neckar
• Neman
• Neretva
• Northern Dvina
• Oise
• Oka
• Olt
• Ouse
• Pechora
• Pripyat— Flows quietly past Chernobyl. Best admired from a distance.
• Prut
• Ruhr
• Saone
• Sava
• Somme
• Spey
• Tay
• Tisza
• Trent
• Tweed
• Tyne
• Vardar
• Warta
• Wye

Uncommon — only a minority of players land here.

• Arno
• Avon
• Dnieper
• Dniester
• Don
• Garonne
• Guadalquivir
• Inn
• Liffey
• Main
• Meuse
• Moselle
• Neva
• Scheldt
• Severn
• Shannon
• Spree
• Ural
• Vltava
• Weser

A solid, middling pick shared with plenty of other players.

• Ebro
• Elbe
• Loire
• Oder
• Po
• Rhone
• Tagus
• Tiber
• Vistula
• Volga

An overthought pick that scores below the middle of the board.

• Rubicon— Everyone crosses it eventually. Caesar just got there first.

The most common answer on the board.

• Danube
• Rhine
• Seine
• Thames

The rarest possible answer — almost no player finds it.

• White-flippered penguin— Found only around Banks Peninsula, New Zealand. Taxonomists still argue whether it's a full species or a very opinionated little penguin. The final scroll of the penguin list either way.

Genuinely obscure. Most players never think of it.

• Erect-crested penguin
• Fiordland penguin
• Snares penguin
• Yellow-eyed penguin

Uncommon — only a minority of players land here.

• Northern rockhopper penguin
• Royal penguin
• Southern rockhopper penguin

A solid, middling pick shared with plenty of other players.

• Adélie penguin
• African penguin
• Chinstrap penguin
• Galapagos penguin
• Gentoo penguin
• Humboldt penguin
• Magellanic penguin
• Rockhopper penguin

An overthought pick that scores below the middle of the board.

• Macaroni penguin— The giggle-name pick. Yes, named after the Yankee Doodle 'macaroni.' The school stuck a feather in its cap.

The most common answer on the board.

• Emperor penguin
• King penguin
• Little penguin

The rarest possible answer — almost no player finds it.

• Kaboom— A General Mills cereal from 1969 featuring a circus clown. Discontinued. The cereal archaeologist's trophy.

Genuinely obscure. Most players never think of it.

• Boo Berry
• Cracklin' Oat Bran
• Crunchy Nut
• Ezekiel 4:9
• Franken Berry
• French Toast Crunch
• Fruit Brute
• King Vitaman
• Magic Spoon
• Malt-O-Meal
• Nesquik cereal
• Nutri-Grain
• Oreo O's
• Post Grape-Nuts Flakes
• Product 19
• Quaker Oat Squares
• Quaker Oats
• Quisp
• Shreddies

Uncommon — only a minority of players land here.

• All-Bran
• Alpha-Bits
• Apple Jacks
• Bran Flakes
• Chex
• Cocoa Krispies
• Cocoa Pebbles
• Cookie Crisp
• Corn Pops
• Count Chocula
• Cream of Wheat
• Crispix
• Fiber One
• Frosted Mini-Wheats
• Fruity Pebbles
• Golden Crisp
• Golden Grahams
• Granola
• Honey Comb
• Kashi
• Kix
• Muesli
• Puffins
• Reese's Puffs
• Shredded Wheat
• Total
• Trix

A solid, middling pick shared with plenty of other players.

• Cap'n Crunch
• Cinnamon Toast Crunch
• Cocoa Puffs
• Froot Loops
• Grape Nuts
• Honey Bunches of Oats
• Honey Nut Cheerios
• Honey Smacks
• Life
• Raisin Bran
• Special K
• Wheaties

An overthought pick that scores below the middle of the board.

• Weetabix— The British import that every transatlantic trivia player flags. Weetabix nation knows.

The most common answer on the board.

• Cheerios
• Corn Flakes
• Frosted Flakes
• Lucky Charms
• Rice Krispies

The rarest possible answer — almost no player finds it.

• Casino Royale 1967— The 1967 spoof with six different 007s. Barely a Bond film. Absolutely a Bond film.

Uncommon — only a minority of players land here.

• Diamonds Are Forever
• Die Another Day
• Quantum of Solace
• The World Is Not Enough
• Tomorrow Never Dies

A solid, middling pick shared with plenty of other players.

• A View to a Kill
• For Your Eyes Only
• From Russia with Love
• Licence to Kill
• Live and Let Die
• Moonraker
• No Time to Die
• Octopussy
• On Her Majesty's Secret Service
• Spectre
• The Living Daylights
• The Man with the Golden Gun
• The Spy Who Loved Me
• Thunderball
• You Only Live Twice

An overthought pick that scores below the middle of the board.

• Never Say Never Again— The rogue Connery comeback. Not an official Eon film, but Bond trivia gold, and the school's sleeper pick.

The most common answer on the board.

• Casino Royale
• Dr. No
• Goldeneye
• Goldfinger
• Skyfall

The rarest possible answer — almost no player finds it.

• Benitoite— California's state gem. Blue as sapphire, rarer than diamond, found in only one commercially viable location on Earth.

Genuinely obscure. Most players never think of it.

• Amazonite
• Ammolite
• Apatite
• Aventurine
• Azurite
• Chalcedony
• Charoite
• Chrysoberyl
• Fluorite
• Grandidierite
• Iolite
• Kunzite
• Kyanite
• Labradorite
• Larimar
• Musgravite
• Padparadscha
• Painite
• Pyrite
• Rhodochrosite
• Rhodonite
• Sodalite
• Sunstone
• Taaffeite
• Tsavorite

Uncommon — only a minority of players land here.

• Agate
• Alexandrite
• Amber
• Beryl
• Bloodstone
• Carnelian
• Coral
• Cubic zirconia— The honest imposter. Sparkles hard, costs lunch money, counts on a technicality.
• Hematite
• Jasper
• Jet
• Lapis lazuli
• Malachite
• Morganite
• Peridot
• Spinel
• Tanzanite
• Tiger's eye
• Tourmaline
• Zircon

A solid, middling pick shared with plenty of other players.

• Amethyst
• Aquamarine
• Citrine
• Garnet
• Jade
• Moonstone
• Onyx
• Opal
• Pearl
• Quartz
• Topaz
• Turquoise

An overthought pick that scores below the middle of the board.

• Moldavite— The meteorite-impact glass TikTok swears will ruin your life. The school braced for this one.
• Obsidian— Volcanic glass that every Minecraft player has mined. Not technically a gemstone, but close enough to be valid.

The most common answer on the board.

• Diamond
• Emerald
• Ruby
• Sapphire

The rarest possible answer — almost no player finds it.

• Senet— Ancient Egyptian game, 3100 BC. The oldest board game ever found. Your ancestors played it. They also had no idea what the rules were.

Genuinely obscure. Most players never think of it.

• Ark Nova
• Betrayal at House on the Hill
• Brass: Birmingham
• Carrom
• Cascadia
• Concordia
• Cribbage
• Crokinole
• Dungeon Petz
• Everdell
• Food Chain Magnate
• HeroQuest
• Hive
• Hnefatafl— Viking chess, with an unpronounceable name and an escape-the-king twist.
• Le Havre
• Mage Knight
• Nine Men's Morris
• Pax Pamir
• Puerto Rico
• Qwirkle
• Root
• Royal Game of Ur
• Santorini
• Shogi
• Small World
• Spirit Island
• Terra Mystica
• Through the Ages
• Twilight Imperium
• Xiangqi

Uncommon — only a minority of players land here.

• 7 Wonders
• Agricola
• Arkham Horror
• Axis and Allies
• Azul
• Chinese checkers
• Codenames
• Cranium
• Diplomacy
• Dominion
• Gloomhaven
• Go
• Hungry Hungry Hippos
• King of Tokyo
• Mahjong
• Mancala
• Mastermind
• Mousetrap
• Mysterium
• Operation
• Othello
• Parcheesi
• Pictionary
• Power Grid
• Rummikub
• Scotland Yard
• Scythe
• Sequence
• Splendor
• Stratego
• Terraforming Mars
• Trouble
• Twister
• Wingspan

A solid, middling pick shared with plenty of other players.

• Backgammon
• Battleship
• Boggle
• Candyland
• Checkers
• Chutes and Ladders
• Connect Four
• Dominoes
• Guess Who?
• Jenga
• Life
• Pandemic
• Settlers of Catan
• Sorry!
• Ticket to Ride
• Trivial Pursuit
• Uno— Technically cards. Spiritually a board game. The shelf agrees.
• Yahtzee

An overthought pick that scores below the middle of the board.

• Carcassonne— The gateway euro-game. The boardgame community's ambassador. Everyone eventually names it.

The most common answer on the board.

• Chess
• Clue
• Monopoly
• Risk
• Scrabble

The rarest possible answer — almost no player finds it.

• Ladino— Judeo-Spanish, written in Hebrew script, spoken by Sephardic Jews across Europe. A language that survived the Inquisition but nearly didn't survive the 20th century.

Genuinely obscure. Most players never think of it.

• Alsatian
• Aragonese
• Aromanian
• Asturian
• Azerbaijani
• Breton
• Chuvash
• Cornish
• Corsican
• Crimean Tatar
• Elfdalian— Spoken in one Swedish valley. Wrote in runes into the 20th century.
• Faroese
• Frisian
• Friulian
• Kalmyk— Europe's only natively Mongolic-speaking, Buddhist region, on the Caspian steppe.
• Kashubian
• Ladin— Not Ladino. A Rhaeto-Romance language of the Dolomites. Yes, the matcher knows the difference.
• Low German
• Manx
• Neapolitan
• Occitan
• Romani
• Romansh
• Sámi
• Sardinian
• Scots
• Sicilian
• Sorbian
• Tatar
• Venetian
• Walloon

Uncommon — only a minority of players land here.

• Albanian
• Arabic— Millions of speakers from Marseille to Malmo. Spoken in Europe? Absolutely.
• Armenian
• Belarusian
• Bosnian
• Bulgarian
• Croatian
• Esperanto— Invented in Warsaw in 1887. Still spoken, mostly at very enthusiastic conferences.
• Estonian
• Galician
• Georgian
• Icelandic
• Irish
• Latvian
• Lithuanian
• Luxembourgish
• Macedonian
• Maltese
• Montenegrin
• Scottish Gaelic
• Serbian
• Slovenian
• Welsh
• Yiddish

A solid, middling pick shared with plenty of other players.

• Catalan
• Czech
• Danish
• Dutch
• Finnish
• Greek
• Hungarian
• Norwegian
• Polish
• Portuguese
• Romanian
• Russian
• Slovak
• Swedish
• Turkish
• Ukrainian

An overthought pick that scores below the middle of the board.

• Basque— The language with no known relatives. Every linguistics nerd jumps straight here.
• Latin— Dead, you say? It's still the Vatican's official language. The school genuflects and moves on.

The most common answer on the board.

• English
• French
• German
• Italian
• Spanish