Krillion Answers for July 30, 2026

The rarest possible answer — almost no player finds it.

• Nepal— The only non-rectangular national flag on Earth. Two pennants, three colors, zero compromise.

Genuinely obscure. Most players never think of it.

• Cambodia
• North Korea
• Samoa
• Serbia— Its everyday civil flag is a plain red, blue, and white tricolor. The state version adds a crest with a golden crown, so wave the plain one.

Uncommon — only a minority of players land here.

• Czechia
• Luxembourg
• Slovakia

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

• Australia
• Chile
• Costa Rica
• Cuba
• Iceland
• Laos
• New Zealand
• Norway
• Panama
• Taiwan
• Thailand

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

• Liberia— The 'it looks just like the US flag' pick. One star, many smug grins.

The most common answer on the board.

• France
• Netherlands
• Russia
• United Kingdom
• United States

The rarest possible answer — almost no player finds it.

• Laotian rock rat— Rediscovered alive in 2006 after scientists thought it was extinct for 11 million years. Found at a Laotian food market. Went from fossil to dinner plate.

Genuinely obscure. Most players never think of it.

• Agouti
• Degu
• Gundi
• Hutia
• Paca
• Patagonian mara
• Tuco-tuco
• Viscacha

Uncommon — only a minority of players land here.

• Chinchilla
• Deer mouse
• Dormouse
• Field mouse
• Flying squirrel
• Harvest mouse
• Jerboa
• Kangaroo rat
• Nutria
• Pack rat
• Springhare
• Wood mouse

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

• Beaver
• Chipmunk
• Gerbil
• Gopher
• Groundhog
• Guinea pig
• Lemming
• Marmot
• Mole rat
• Muskrat
• Porcupine
• Prairie dog
• Vole

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

• Capybara— The internet's spirit animal. Every single person at this tier typed it first and felt clever. You're in good company, but crowded company.

The most common answer on the board.

• Hamster
• Mouse
• Rat
• Squirrel

The rarest possible answer — almost no player finds it.

• Kabusecha— A Japanese tea shaded for only about a week. Shorter than gyokuro, longer than tencha. The uncommitted shade. There are maybe three people in the room who've heard of it.

Genuinely obscure. Most players never think of it.

• Aged white tea
• Bancha
• Da Hong Pao
• Dandelion tea
• Fennel tea
• Genmaicha
• Honeybush
• Keemun
• Kukicha
• Longjing
• Nettle tea
• Pu-erh
• Silver Needle
• Tencha
• Tie Guan Yin
• Tulsi

Uncommon — only a minority of players land here.

• Assam tea
• Barley tea
• Butterfly pea flower tea
• Ceylon
• Chrysanthemum tea
• Echinacea tea
• Ginseng tea
• Gunpowder tea
• Gyokuro
• Hibiscus tea
• Hojicha
• Irish breakfast
• Kombucha
• Lemongrass tea
• Orange pekoe
• Rosehip tea
• Sencha
• Thai tea
• Turmeric tea
• Valerian tea
• Yellow tea
• Yerba mate

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

• Bubble tea
• Chai
• Darjeeling
• English Breakfast
• Ginger tea
• Herbal tea
• Iced tea
• Jasmine tea
• Lavender tea
• Lemon tea
• Matcha
• Oolong tea
• Rooibos
• Sweet tea
• White tea

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

• Lapsang Souchong— The smoky-tea flex everyone name-drops to prove they know a distinctive brew. The school smells the pine tar coming.

The most common answer on the board.

• Black tea
• Chamomile
• Earl Grey
• Green tea
• Peppermint tea

The rarest possible answer — almost no player finds it.

• Allegro— Rodgers and Hammerstein's forgotten third musical. Opened in 1947, ran fewer shows than Oklahoma!, has never had a Broadway revival. The ghost in the machine.

Genuinely obscure. Most players never think of it.

• & Juliet
• A Little Night Music
• A Strange Loop
• American Idiot
• Anyone Can Whistle
• Assassins
• Charlie and the Chocolate Factory
• Chess
• Do I Hear a Waltz?
• Follies
• Kimberly Akimbo
• Kiss of the Spider Woman
• Lolita, My Love
• Mame
• Maybe Happy Ending
• Merrily We Roll Along
• MJ
• On the Town
• Pacific Overtures
• Parade
• Passion
• Peter Pan
• Road Show
• She Loves Me
• Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark— Bono wrote it, actors were hospitalized, and it lost more money than any show in Broadway history. Legendary for all the wrong reasons.
• Starlight Express
• Sunday in the Park with George
• Sweet Charity
• The Drowsy Chaperone
• The Frogs
• The Outsiders
• The SpongeBob Musical
• Thoroughly Modern Millie
• Tina
• Titanic
• Urinetown

Uncommon — only a minority of players land here.

• 42nd Street
• A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum
• Anastasia
• Annie Get Your Gun
• Be More Chill
• Beautiful
• Brigadoon
• Bye Bye Birdie
• Camelot
• Come From Away
• Company
• Damn Yankees
• Dear Evan Hansen
• Falsettos
• Fun Home
• Godspell
• Hadestown
• Hair
• How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying
• Kiss Me, Kate
• La Cage aux Folles
• Man of La Mancha
• Mean Girls
• Next to Normal
• Once
• Pippin
• Porgy and Bess
• Ragtime
• Rock of Ages
• School of Rock
• Show Boat
• Shrek the Musical
• Six
• Spring Awakening
• Sunset Boulevard
• The Color Purple
• The Pajama Game
• Young Frankenstein

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

• A Chorus Line
• Aladdin
• Annie
• Anything Goes
• Avenue Q
• Beauty and the Beast
• Beetlejuice
• Book of Mormon
• Cabaret
• Carousel
• Chicago
• Dreamgirls
• Evita
• Fiddler on the Roof
• Frozen
• Funny Girl
• Grease
• Guys and Dolls
• Gypsy
• Hairspray
• Hello, Dolly!
• In the Heights
• Into the Woods
• Jersey Boys
• Jesus Christ Superstar
• Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat
• Kinky Boots
• Legally Blonde
• Little Shop of Horrors
• Mamma Mia!
• Mary Poppins
• Matilda
• Miss Saigon
• Moulin Rouge!
• My Fair Lady
• Newsies
• Oklahoma!
• Phantom of the Opera
• Rent
• South Pacific
• Spamalot
• Sweeney Todd
• The King and I
• The Music Man
• The Producers
• The Sound of Music
• The Wiz
• Waitress
• West Side Story

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

• Natasha, Pierre & The Great Comet of 1812— The longest title on Broadway and the fastest way to signal you went to see it twice. The school has the cast album.

The most common answer on the board.

• Cats
• Hamilton
• Les Misérables
• The Lion King
• Wicked

The rarest possible answer — almost no player finds it.

• Quecto— 10^-30. Added in 2022. The smallest named SI prefix. Below yocto, below ronto. Absolute basement of the system.

Genuinely obscure. Most players never think of it.

• Quetta— 10^30. The largest SI prefix as of 2022. Named to avoid confusion with existing words. Extremely obscure.
• Ronto— Added in 2022. Most people who know SI prefixes still don't know this one.
• Yocto
• Yotta
• Zepto
• Zetta

Uncommon — only a minority of players land here.

• Atto
• Exa
• Femto
• Peta

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

• Deci
• Deka
• Hecto
• Micro
• Nano
• Pico
• Tera

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

• Ronna— The 2022 addition everyone name-drops to sound current. 10^27. You have seen the press release.

The most common answer on the board.

• Centi
• Giga
• Kilo
• Mega
• Milli

The rarest possible answer — almost no player finds it.

• Grief knot— A rare knot that is the topological opposite of a granny knot. Deliberately untrustworthy, used only to illustrate what not to do. Named for what happens when you trust it.

Genuinely obscure. Most players never think of it.

• Anchor bend
• Ashley's bend
• Bowline on a bight
• Buntline hitch
• Constrictor knot
• Diamond knot
• French knot
• Handcuff knot
• Highwayman's hitch
• Improved clinch knot
• Marlinspike hitch
• Matthew Walker knot
• Monkey's fist
• Munter hitch
• Palomar knot
• Pile hitch
• Pratt knot
• Shamrock knot
• True lover's knot
• Uni knot
• Water knot

Uncommon — only a minority of players land here.

• Blood knot
• Butterfly knot
• Carrick bend
• Celtic knot
• Four-in-hand
• Half Windsor
• Prusik knot
• Rolling hitch
• Sheepshank
• Stevedore knot
• Surgeon's knot
• Taut-line hitch
• Timber hitch
• Trucker's hitch
• Turk's head
• Zeppelin bend

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

• Bow knot
• Cleat hitch
• Clove hitch
• Double sheet bend
• Figure eight knot
• Fisherman's knot
• Half hitch
• Lark's head
• Noose
• Overhand knot
• Sheet bend
• Windsor knot

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

• Gordian knot— Alexander the Great 'untied' it with a sword, and you just untied this prompt with the only knot you know from mythology. Bold. Predictable. Effective.

The most common answer on the board.

• Bowline
• Granny knot
• Slip knot
• Square knot

The rarest possible answer — almost no player finds it.

• Catalhoyuk— One of the world's first true cities, buried in Turkey for 9,000 years. No streets, no hierarchy. Residents entered their homes through holes in the roof. The past is weird.

Genuinely obscure. Most players never think of it.

• Aksumite Empire
• Ancestral Puebloans
• Benin Empire
• Cahokia
• Canaanites
• Caral
• Chavin
• Chimu
• Cucuteni-Trypillia
• Dilmun
• Elamite civilization
• Garamantes
• Gobekli Tepe
• Great Zimbabwe
• Gupta Empire
• Jiroft civilization
• Jomon
• Kushan Empire
• Land of Punt
• Lydia
• Medes
• Mitanni
• Mixtec
• Moche
• Muisca
• Nabataean Kingdom
• Nok
• Parthia
• Phrygia
• Ptolemaic Kingdom
• Rapa Nui
• Saba
• Seleucid Empire
• Silla
• Teotihuacan
• Thracians
• Tiwanaku
• Urartian Kingdom
• Vandals
• Wari
• Zapotec

Uncommon — only a minority of players land here.

• Akkadian Empire
• Ancient Israel
• Celts
• Etruscan
• Ghana Empire
• Goths
• Hittite
• Huns
• Khmer Empire
• Macedon
• Mali Empire
• Maurya Empire
• Minoan
• Mycenaean
• Nazca
• Nubia
• Olmec
• Sassanid Empire— The last Persian empire before the Arab conquest, and Rome's great rival in the east.
• Scythian
• Songhai Empire
• Toltec
• Troy

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

• Assyrian Empire
• Byzantine Empire
• Carthage
• Chinese civilization
• Indus Valley
• Mongol Empire
• Persian Empire
• Phoenician
• Viking

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

• Atlantis— Not real. Plato made it up as a philosophical device. The school has watched all three History Channel specials.

The most common answer on the board.

• Ancient Egypt
• Ancient Greece
• Ancient Rome
• Aztec
• Inca
• Maya
• Mesopotamia