Krillion Answers for August 5, 2026

The rarest possible answer — almost no player finds it.

• Sao Tome and Principe— Two volcanic islands off West Africa that half the room forgets is a country at all. The trench floor of S.

Genuinely obscure. Most players never think of it.

• Saint Kitts and Nevis
• Saint Lucia
• Saint Vincent and the Grenadines
• Seychelles
• Solomon Islands
• Suriname

Uncommon — only a minority of players land here.

• Samoa
• San Marino
• Senegal
• Sierra Leone
• Slovakia
• Slovenia
• South Sudan
• Sri Lanka

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

• Saudi Arabia
• Serbia
• Singapore
• Somalia
• South Africa
• South Korea
• Sudan
• Syria

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

• Scotland— Part of the UK, not a sovereign state, but you typed it with a grin anyway.
• Swaziland— It's been Eswatini since 2018 — the king renamed it for the 50th anniversary. Your atlas called; it wants royalties.

The most common answer on the board.

• Spain
• Sweden
• Switzerland

The rarest possible answer — almost no player finds it.

• Tadpole shrimp— A living fossil that has barely changed in 200 million years and hatches from eggs that survive a decade in dry desert dust. Older than the dinosaurs.

Genuinely obscure. Most players never think of it.

• Amphipod
• Brine shrimp
• Chinese mitten crab
• Cleaner shrimp
• Green crab
• Isopod
• Langoustine
• Mole crab
• Mud crab
• Mysid shrimp
• Pea crab
• Pill bug
• Pistol shrimp
• Porcelain crab
• Slipper lobster
• Spiny lobster
• Velvet crab
• Water flea
• Yeti crab

Uncommon — only a minority of players land here.

• Copepod
• Dungeness crab
• Fiddler crab
• Ghost crab
• Mantis shrimp— Sees more colors than you and punches at bullet speed. A legend among the tide pools.
• Spider crab
• Stone crab

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

• Barnacle
• Blue crab
• Crawfish
• Hermit crab
• King crab
• Krill— You know where you are.
• Prawn
• Snow crab

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

• Coconut crab— The giant island crab from the viral videos. The internet loves it, so it isn't your secret.
• Horseshoe crab— Not actually a crab, and you knew that, and you said it anyway. Blue blood, big smug.

The most common answer on the board.

• Crab
• Lobster
• Shrimp

The rarest possible answer — almost no player finds it.

• Nixtamalization— The ancient Mesoamerican method of soaking corn in lime to make masa. Without it there is no tortilla, and almost nobody can pronounce it.

Genuinely obscure. Most players never think of it.

• Bain-marie
• Brining
• Charbroiling
• Dehydrating
• En papillote
• Flambeing
• Griddling
• Parboiling
• Reducing
• Rendering
• Sweating
• Tempering

Uncommon — only a minority of players land here.

• Barbecuing
• Basting
• Blanching
• Caramelizing
• Curing
• Deglazing
• Fermenting
• Marinating
• Pickling
• Pressure cooking
• Rotisserie
• Slow cooking
• Stewing

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

• Air frying
• Braising
• Broiling
• Microwaving
• Poaching
• Roasting
• Sauteing
• Searing
• Simmering
• Smoking
• Steaming
• Stir-frying
• Toasting

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

• Confit— Slow-cooked in fat, and the foodies never miss a chance to say it with a French accent.
• Sous vide— The immersion-circulator flex every home cook discovered in 2016. We know you have the gadget.

The most common answer on the board.

• Baking
• Boiling
• Frying
• Grilling

The rarest possible answer — almost no player finds it.

• Gabbo— The ventriloquist dummy who nearly dethroned Krusty in one 1993 episode and then vanished forever. A one-hit wonder buried deep in the vault.

Genuinely obscure. Most players never think of it.

• Agnes Skinner
• Artie Ziff
• Baby Gerald
• Blinky
• Bobo
• Bumblebee Man
• Cecil
• Cletus
• Cookie Kwan
• Database
• Disco Stu
• Dolph
• Dr. Marvin Monroe
• Eddie
• Fallout Boy
• Gil
• Hans Moleman
• Helen Lovejoy
• Herb Powell
• Jasper
• Jessica Lovejoy
• Jub-Jub
• Kearney
• Kirk Van Houten
• Lindsey Naegle
• Ling
• Lou
• Luann Van Houten
• Luigi
• Lurleen Lumpkin
• Manjula
• Miss Hoover
• Mona Simpson
• Mr. Teeny
• Princess Kashmir
• Radioactive Man
• Rich Texan
• Rod Flanders
• Sanjay
• Sherri and Terri
• Sideshow Mel
• Snake
• Squeaky-Voiced Teen
• Stampy
• Todd Flanders
• Uter
• Wendell

Uncommon — only a minority of players land here.

• Bleeding Gums Murphy
• Carl
• Comic Book Guy
• Crazy Cat Lady
• Dr. Hibbert
• Dr. Nick
• Duffman
• Edna Krabappel
• Fat Tony
• Frank Grimes
• Hank Scorpio
• Itchy
• Jimbo
• Kang
• Kent Brockman
• Kodos
• Lenny
• Lionel Hutz
• Martin Prince
• Maude Flanders
• Mayor Quimby
• Otto
• Poochie
• Professor Frink
• Reverend Lovejoy
• Scratchy
• Sea Captain
• Sideshow Bob
• Snowball
• Spider-Pig
• Superintendent Chalmers
• Willie

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

• Apu
• Barney
• Chief Wiggum
• Grandpa
• Krusty the Clown
• Maggie
• Milhouse
• Moe
• Mr. Burns
• Ned Flanders
• Nelson
• Patty
• Principal Skinner
• Ralph Wiggum
• Santa's Little Helper
• Selma
• Smithers

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

• Troy McClure— You may remember him from such deep-cut answers as this one. The classic-era fan's flex.

The most common answer on the board.

• Bart
• Homer
• Lisa
• Marge

The rarest possible answer — almost no player finds it.

• Time crystal— A phase whose structure repeats in time instead of space, first coaxed into existence on a quantum computer in 2021. Physics grew a brand-new state of matter and almost nobody noticed.

Genuinely obscure. Most players never think of it.

• Bose-Einstein condensate
• Degenerate matter
• Fermionic condensate
• Quark-gluon plasma
• Superfluid
• Supersolid

Uncommon — only a minority of players land here.

• Liquid crystal

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

• Plasma— The 'well, actually, there's a fourth state' answer. Lightning, neon signs, and the smuggest grin in the science wing.

The most common answer on the board.

• Gas
• Liquid
• Solid

The rarest possible answer — almost no player finds it.

• Wingback— A backfield spot from the old single-wing offenses of a century ago, all but extinct in the modern game. Leather-helmet deep.

Genuinely obscure. Most players never think of it.

• Dimeback
• Flanker
• Gunner
• H-back
• Holder
• Return specialist
• Split end

Uncommon — only a minority of players land here.

• Edge rusher
• Guard
• Nose tackle
• Offensive tackle
• Slot receiver

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

• Center
• Cornerback
• Defensive back
• Defensive end
• Defensive lineman
• Defensive tackle
• Fullback
• Kicker
• Linebacker
• Offensive lineman
• Punter
• Safety
• Tight end

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

• Long snapper— The one position nobody notices until they shank the snap. You named it to prove you watch closely.
• Nickelback— Yes, it's a real defensive position and not just the band. The football-nerd giggle pick.

The most common answer on the board.

• Quarterback
• Running back
• Wide receiver

The rarest possible answer — almost no player finds it.

• Duel— His debut, a 1971 TV movie about a man terrorized by a faceless truck driver. The studios saw a genius and never looked back.

Genuinely obscure. Most players never think of it.

• Always
• Amistad
• Empire of the Sun
• Firelight
• The Sugarland Express
• Twilight Zone: The Movie

Uncommon — only a minority of players land here.

• A.I. Artificial Intelligence
• Bridge of Spies
• Hook
• Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull
• Lincoln
• Munich
• The Adventures of Tintin
• The BFG
• The Color Purple
• The Fabelmans
• The Post
• War Horse
• West Side Story

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

• Catch Me If You Can
• Close Encounters of the Third Kind
• Disclosure Day
• Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade
• Indiana Jones and the Raiders of the Lost Ark
• Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom
• Minority Report
• Ready Player One
• Saving Private Ryan
• Schindler's List
• The Terminal
• War of the Worlds

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

• 1941— His one famous flop, dragged out by film buffs to prove even Spielberg misses. We saw it coming.
• The Lost World: Jurassic Park— The sequel everyone forgets he directed. You did not. Well done, dino scholar.

The most common answer on the board.

• E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial
• Jaws
• Jurassic Park