Krillion Answers for July 31, 2026

The rarest possible answer — almost no player finds it.

• Golden Gate— The strait came first: the mile-wide gap where San Francisco Bay meets the Pacific, named in 1846 before a single cable was spun. The bridge is just wearing its name.
• Strait of Tartary— Between Sakhalin Island and mainland Russia. For decades, cartographers weren't sure if it was a strait or if Sakhalin was a peninsula. Ships had to find out the hard way.

Genuinely obscure. Most players never think of it.

• Cabot Strait
• Davis Strait
• Denmark Strait
• Fram Strait
• Great Belt
• Hecate Strait
• Karimata Strait
• Kattegat
• La Perouse Strait
• Lombok Strait
• Makassar Strait
• Menai Strait
• Mona Passage
• Nares Strait
• Northumberland Strait
• Singapore Strait
• Skagerrak
• Solent
• Strait of Belle Isle
• Strait of Georgia
• Strait of Tiran
• Sunda Strait
• Surigao Strait
• The Narrows
• Vella Gulf
• Windward Passage
• Yucatan Channel

Uncommon — only a minority of players land here.

• Bab-el-Mandeb
• Beagle Channel
• Dardanelles
• Hudson Strait
• Juan de Fuca Strait
• Korea Strait
• Luzon Strait
• Mozambique Channel
• Oresund
• Palk Strait
• Strait of Bonifacio
• Strait of Kerch
• Strait of Messina
• Strait of Otranto
• Strait of Sicily
• Taiwan Strait
• Tsugaru Strait

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

• Bass Strait
• Cook Strait
• Drake Passage
• English Channel
• Strait of Florida
• Strait of Hormuz
• Strait of Magellan
• Strait of Malacca
• Torres Strait

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

• Bosphorus— Where Europe meets Asia. The geography flex everyone reaches for to sound worldly. The school has crossed it in its mind.

The most common answer on the board.

• Bering Strait
• Strait of Gibraltar

The rarest possible answer — almost no player finds it.

• Abyssal sea pig— Technically a sea cucumber (Scotoplanes), it waddles on leg-like appendages across the abyssal plain in herds of thousands. The deep sea's most surprising livestock.
• Bristlemouth— A finger-sized fish so numerous it outnumbers every other vertebrate on Earth, with population estimates in the quadrillions. The most common backboned animal in existence, and almost nobody knows its name.

Genuinely obscure. Most players never think of it.

• Bigfin squid
• Black swallower
• Chilean sea bass
• Chimaera
• Cookiecutter shark
• Firefly squid
• Footballfish
• Lancetfish
• Megamouth shark
• Orange roughy
• Sea spider
• Siphonophore
• Sixgill shark
• Snailfish
• Spookfish
• Stoplight loosejaw
• Tripod fish
• Whalefish
• Yeti crab
• Zombie worm

Uncommon — only a minority of players land here.

• Brittle star
• Coelacanth
• Colossal squid
• Frilled shark
• Goblin shark
• Greenland shark
• Hagfish
• Hatchetfish
• Humboldt squid
• Hydrothermal vent worm
• Isopod
• Krill— Our namesake. We see you. Tiny, numerous, and absolutely essential. Which is to say, just like the right answer.
• Lanternfish
• Monkfish
• Nautilus
• Oarfish
• Rattail fish
• Sea cucumber
• Snipe eel

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

• Barreleye fish
• Bioluminescent jellyfish
• Blobfish
• Dragonfish
• Dumbo octopus
• Fangtooth fish
• Gulper eel
• Sperm whale
• Vampire squid
• Viperfish

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

• Angler fish— The photogenic nightmare of every deep-sea documentary. Famous-for-being-scary. The school has seen the meme.

The most common answer on the board.

• Giant squid

The rarest possible answer — almost no player finds it.

• Aji Cito— Tiny Peruvian pepper. Sometimes called the world's hottest per gram of flesh. Barely documented outside specialist catalogs. Krillion-tier obscurity per unit of heat.

Genuinely obscure. Most players never think of it.

• 7 Pot Douglah
• Aji Amarillo
• Aji Charapita
• Aleppo pepper
• Calabrian chili
• Chiltepin
• Datil
• Dragon's Breath
• Espelette
• Fatalii
• Gochu
• Kashmiri chili
• Malagueta
• Naga Viper
• Peperoncino
• Pepper X
• Peruvian aji limo
• Piquillo pepper
• Red Savina
• Rocoto pepper

Uncommon — only a minority of players land here.

• Arbol chili
• Cascabel pepper
• Cubanelle pepper
• Guajillo pepper
• Hungarian wax pepper
• Mulato pepper
• New Mexico pepper
• Padrón pepper
• Pasilla pepper
• Pimento
• Piri piri
• Shishito pepper
• Tabasco pepper
• Trinidad Moruga Scorpion

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

• Anaheim pepper
• Ancho chili
• Banana pepper
• Cayenne
• Chipotle
• Fresno pepper
• Poblano
• Scotch bonnet
• Serrano
• Thai chili

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

• Carolina Reaper— The world's hottest pepper. As of a few years ago, anyway. Every spice bro's go-to. The school has the T-shirt and the regret.
• Ghost pepper— Bhut jolokia. The challenge video tier. You are not the first person here and you are not wrong.

The most common answer on the board.

• Bell pepper
• Habanero
• Jalapeño

The rarest possible answer — almost no player finds it.

• Porygon— The only fully digital Pokémon in Gen 1. A virtual creature made of code, with a Pokédex entry, given the same legal status as a living animal. Game Freak invented digital consciousness in 1996 and barely made a fuss about it.

Genuinely obscure. Most players never think of it.

• Arbok
• Dewgong
• Exeggcute
• Farfetch'd
• Fearow
• Goldeen
• Machoke
• Nidorina
• Nidorino
• Paras
• Parasect
• Seaking
• Seel
• Tangela
• Venonat

Uncommon — only a minority of players land here.

• Aerodactyl
• Arcanine
• Bellsprout
• Blastoise
• Chansey
• Charmeleon
• Clefable
• Cloyster
• Dodrio
• Doduo
• Dragonair
• Dratini
• Drowzee
• Dugtrio
• Ekans
• Electabuzz
• Electrode
• Exeggutor
• Flareon
• Gloom
• Golbat
• Golduck
• Golem
• Graveler
• Grimer
• Hitmonchan
• Hitmonlee
• Horsea
• Hypno
• Ivysaur
• Jolteon
• Jynx
• Kabuto
• Kabutops
• Kadabra
• Kangaskhan
• Kingler
• Koffing
• Krabby
• Lickitung
• Machamp
• Machop
• Magmar
• Magnemite
• Magneton
• Mankey
• Marowak
• Muk
• Nidoking
• Nidoqueen
• Nidoran-F
• Nidoran-M
• Ninetales
• Omanyte
• Omastar
• Persian
• Pidgeot
• Pidgeotto
• Pinsir
• Poliwag
• Poliwhirl
• Poliwrath
• Ponyta
• Primeape
• Rapidash
• Raticate
• Rhydon
• Rhyhorn
• Sandshrew
• Sandslash
• Scyther
• Seadra
• Shellder
• Slowbro
• Starmie
• Staryu
• Tauros
• Tentacool
• Tentacruel
• Vaporeon
• Venomoth
• Venusaur
• Victreebel
• Vileplume
• Voltorb
• Wartortle
• Weepinbell
• Weezing
• Wigglytuff

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

• Abra
• Alakazam
• Articuno
• Beedrill
• Butterfree
• Caterpie
• Clefairy
• Cubone
• Diglett
• Ditto
• Dragonite
• Gastly
• Gengar
• Geodude
• Growlithe
• Gyarados
• Haunter
• Kakuna
• Lapras
• Magikarp
• Meowth
• Metapod
• Mew— The legendary truck myth. Everybody tried.
• Moltres
• Mr. Mime
• Oddish
• Onix
• Pidgey
• Psyduck
• Raichu
• Rattata
• Slowpoke
• Spearow
• Vulpix
• Weedle
• Zapdos
• Zubat

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

• Mewtwo— The 'I played the original games' flex. Everybody did. The school caught Mewtwo on Route 15.

The most common answer on the board.

• Bulbasaur
• Charizard
• Charmander
• Eevee
• Jigglypuff
• Pikachu
• Snorlax
• Squirtle

The rarest possible answer — almost no player finds it.

• Venustraphobia— The fear of beautiful women. Named after Venus. One of those phobias that's real, documented, and almost never mentioned outside clinical literature.

Genuinely obscure. Most players never think of it.

• Ablutophobia
• Aichmophobia
• Alektorophobia
• Amaxophobia
• Arithmophobia
• Athazagoraphobia
• Automatonophobia
• Chionophobia
• Chiroptophobia
• Deipnophobia
• Ergophobia
• Frigophobia
• Gelotophobia
• Globophobia
• Gymnophobia
• Heliophobia
• Herpetophobia
• Hexakosioihexekontahexaphobia
• Katsaridaphobia
• Koumpounophobia
• Melissophobia
• Monophobia
• Musophobia
• Nomophobia
• Ochlophobia
• Paraskevidekatriaphobia
• Pediophobia
• Phonophobia
• Pogonophobia
• Somniphobia
• Submechanophobia
• Taphophobia
• Telephonophobia
• Tokophobia
• Vestiphobia

Uncommon — only a minority of players land here.

• Anthropophobia
• Astraphobia
• Atychiphobia
• Aviophobia
• Dentophobia
• Emetophobia
• Entomophobia
• Galeophobia
• Glossophobia
• Hemophobia
• Megalophobia
• Necrophobia
• Phasmophobia
• Philophobia
• Photophobia
• Thalassophobia
• Thanatophobia
• Xenophobia

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

• Ailurophobia
• Aquaphobia
• Coulrophobia
• Cynophobia
• Mysophobia
• Nyctophobia
• Ophidiophobia
• Ornithophobia
• Pyrophobia
• Trypanophobia
• Trypophobia

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

• Hippopotomonstrosesquippedaliophobia— The fear of long words. Named sarcastically. You already knew that. Everyone does.
• Triskaidekaphobia— Fear of the number 13. The gateway phobia: everyone learns this word at age nine and deploys it forever.

The most common answer on the board.

• Acrophobia
• Agoraphobia
• Arachnophobia
• Claustrophobia

The rarest possible answer — almost no player finds it.

• Nona Gaprindashvili— The first woman to be awarded the Grandmaster title. Not Women's Grandmaster, but Grandmaster outright. World Women's Chess Champion for 16 years. One of the greatest players of any era.

Genuinely obscure. Most players never think of it.

• Alexander Khalifman
• Hou Yifan
• Maia Chiburdanidze
• Ruslan Ponomariov
• Rustam Kasimdzhanov
• Susan Polgar
• Vera Menchik— The first Women's World Champion. Men who scoffed at her entry into open events and then lost to her were inducted into the 'Vera Menchik Club.' It grew embarrassingly large.
• Veselin Topalov
• Xie Jun

Uncommon — only a minority of players land here.

• Alexander Alekhine
• Ding Liren
• Emanuel Lasker
• Gukesh Dommaraju
• Jose Raul Capablanca
• Max Euwe
• Mikhail Botvinnik
• Mikhail Tal
• Tigran Petrosian
• Vasily Smyslov
• Wilhelm Steinitz

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

• Anatoly Karpov
• Bobby Fischer
• Boris Spassky
• Garry Kasparov
• Viswanathan Anand
• Vladimir Kramnik

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

• Paul Morphy— The 'greatest player never to be champion' argument. Unofficial king of chess in the 1850s, before the title formally existed. A popular answer from those who've read one chess book.

The most common answer on the board.

• Magnus Carlsen

The rarest possible answer — almost no player finds it.

• Caleuche— A ghost ship from Chilean Chilote mythology. A glowing vessel that sails by night, collecting the souls of those who drowned, crewed by the dead. More beautiful and more haunting than the Flying Dutchman, and almost nobody outside Chile knows it.

Genuinely obscure. Most players never think of it.

• African Queen
• Andrea Doria
• Ark Royal
• Aurora
• Batavia
• Bonhomme Richard
• Carpathia
• Costa Concordia
• Endurance
• Erebus
• Essex
• Event Horizon
• Fram
• Going Merry
• Graf Spee
• Hispaniola
• HMS Challenger
• HMS Dreadnought
• HMS Hood
• HMS Resolution
• HMS Surprise
• Merrimack
• Monitor
• Olympic
• Pacific Princess
• Poseidon
• QE2
• Rainbow Warrior
• Red October
• Rocinante
• Scorpion
• SS United States
• Temeraire
• Terra Nova
• Terror
• Thousand Sunny
• USS Maine
• Victoria
• Yellow Submarine

Uncommon — only a minority of players land here.

• Battlestar Galactica
• Bismarck
• Bounty
• Britannic
• Calypso
• Cutty Sark
• Discovery
• Edmund Fitzgerald
• Endeavour
• Exxon Valdez
• Golden Hind
• HMS Beagle
• Jolly Roger
• Kon-Tiki
• Lusitania
• Mary Celeste
• Mary Rose
• Niña
• Orca
• Pinta
• Potemkin
• Queen Anne's Revenge
• Queen Mary
• Serenity
• SS Minnow
• USS Arizona
• USS Constitution
• USS Indianapolis
• USS Missouri
• Vasa
• Yamato

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

• Argo
• Black Pearl
• Flying Dutchman
• Heart of Gold
• HMS Victory
• Mayflower
• Millennium Falcon— Technically a spaceship. We counted it. HAn Solo would want it this way.
• Nautilus
• Noah's Ark
• Nostromo
• Pequod
• Santa Maria
• USS Enterprise

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

• Ever Given— For six days in 2021 the planet's entire supply chain was held hostage by one very stuck boat, and we all watched a tiny excavator dig. Peak internet.
• Theseus's ship— A philosophical thought experiment about identity, not a seaworthy vessel. Extra points for philosophy, zero for seamanship.

The most common answer on the board.

• Titanic