Krillion Answers for August 8, 2026

The rarest possible answer — almost no player finds it.

• Neutral Moresnet— A tiny zinc-mining triangle in Europe that no country could agree on, run jointly for a century until 1920. Even had its own Esperanto movement.

Genuinely obscure. Most players never think of it.

• Abyssinia— Now Ethiopia. Same tea-box energy as Ceylon.
• Basutoland
• Bechuanaland
• Biafra— Broke away from Nigeria for three years in the late 1960s.
• Bohemia
• Dahomey
• East Pakistan— Became Bangladesh in 1971.
• Etruria
• Free City of Danzig
• Gold Coast— Became Ghana in 1957, the first sub-Saharan colony to gain independence.
• Gran Colombia
• Hejaz
• Katanga
• Kingdom of Hawaii
• Kingdom of Kongo
• Mali Empire
• Manchukuo
• New Granada
• Newfoundland— An independent dominion until it joined Canada in 1949.
• North Vietnam
• North Yemen
• Nyasaland
• Orange Free State
• Papal States
• Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth
• Republic of Texas
• Republic of Venice
• Sardinia
• Serbia and Montenegro
• Sikkim
• Songhai Empire
• South Yemen
• Tanganyika— Merged with Zanzibar to form Tanzania.
• Transvaal
• Two Sicilies
• United Arab Republic— Egypt and Syria's brief 1958 merger. It lasted three years.
• Upper Volta— Renamed Burkina Faso in 1984 — 'land of honest people.'
• Vermont Republic— An independent republic for fourteen years before becoming the fourteenth state.
• Weimar Republic
• Zanzibar— Independent for barely a month in 1964 before merging into Tanzania.

Uncommon — only a minority of players land here.

• Assyria
• Austria-Hungary
• Aztec Empire
• Babylonia
• Byzantine Empire
• Carthage
• Ceylon— Now Sri Lanka. Still on the tea box.
• Confederacy
• Gaul
• Holy Roman Empire
• Inca Empire
• Mesopotamia
• Mongol Empire
• Mughal Empire
• Phoenicia
• Rhodesia
• Siam— Thailand's former name.
• South Vietnam
• Sparta
• Tibet
• Tsarist Russia
• Zaire

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

• British Empire
• East Germany
• Ottoman Empire
• Persia
• Prussia
• West Germany

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

• Burma— Renamed Myanmar in 1989. The 'still calls it Burma' pick, right on cue.
• Roman Empire— 'I think about it every day.' Sure you do. So does everyone else.

The most common answer on the board.

• Czechoslovakia
• Soviet Union
• Yugoslavia

The rarest possible answer — almost no player finds it.

• Sorraia— A near-extinct Iberian breed thought to descend from the wild horses of prehistoric cave paintings. A living fossil.

Genuinely obscure. Most players never think of it.

• Akhal-Teke— The 'golden horse' of Turkmenistan, with a metallic sheen to its coat.
• Anglo-Arab
• Ardennes
• Barb
• Breton
• Camargue
• Caspian
• Cleveland Bay
• Connemara
• Criollo
• Curly horse
• Dales pony
• Dartmoor pony
• Exmoor pony
• Falabella— One of the smallest horse breeds in the world, barely taller than a large dog.
• Fjord
• Hackney
• Highland pony
• Holsteiner
• Irish Sport Horse
• Kathiawari
• Knabstrupper
• Lusitano
• Marwari— An Indian breed with ears that curve inward and touch at the tips.
• Missouri Fox Trotter
• Mongolian horse
• New Forest pony
• Nokota
• Oldenburg
• Paso Fino
• Peruvian Paso
• Pony of the Americas
• Przewalski's horse— Technically a never-domesticated wild horse, but every horse book lists it, so we do too.
• Rocky Mountain Horse
• Saddlebred
• Selle Francais
• Suffolk Punch
• Trakehner

Uncommon — only a minority of players land here.

• Andalusian
• Belgian
• Dutch Warmblood
• Gypsy Vanner
• Haflinger
• Hanoverian
• Icelandic horse
• Miniature horse
• Morgan
• Paint horse
• Percheron
• Standardbred
• Tennessee Walker
• Welsh pony

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

• Appaloosa
• Palomino
• Pinto
• Quarter horse
• Shire

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

• Friesian— The dramatic all-black one from every fantasy movie. The horse-girl flex, right on schedule.
• Lipizzaner— The dancing Vienna horses. Wheeled out to prove refinement, every time.

The most common answer on the board.

• Arabian
• Clydesdale— The Budweiser horse. Everyone's first draft pick.
• Mustang
• Shetland pony
• Thoroughbred

The rarest possible answer — almost no player finds it.

• Fugu— Pufferfish so poisonous that chefs train for years to serve it, one bad slice and it is your last meal. The trench floor of the menu.

Genuinely obscure. Most players never think of it.

• Agedashi tofu
• Anpan
• Basashi
• Chahan
• Champon
• Chawanmushi— A savory steamed egg custard served in a cup.
• Chirashi
• Dango
• Dorayaki
• Hayashi rice
• Hitsumabushi
• Hiyayakko
• Hoto
• Inarizushi
• Kaiseki— The elaborate multi-course haute cuisine of Kyoto.
• Kare pan
• Melonpan
• Monjayaki
• Motsunabe
• Nabe
• Nattō— Fermented sticky soybeans. An acquired texture, at best.
• Ochazuke— Tea or dashi poured over rice. The dish that ends a Kyoto night out.
• Oden
• Omurice
• Onsen tamago
• Shiokara
• Shirako— Cod milt. Look it up after you have finished eating.
• Taiyaki
• Tamagoyaki
• Tsukemen
• Umeboshi
• Wagyu beef
• Zaru soba

Uncommon — only a minority of players land here.

• Bento
• California roll
• Curry rice
• Donburi
• Karaage
• Maki
• Nigiri
• Shabu-shabu
• Somen
• Sukiyaki
• Takoyaki
• Teppanyaki
• Tonkotsu
• Unagi
• Yakiniku
• Yakisoba

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

• Edamame
• Gyoza
• Katsu
• Miso soup
• Mochi
• Sashimi
• Soba
• Udon
• Yakitori

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

• Okonomiyaki— The 'Japanese pancake' foodie flex. Delicious, and the school expected it.
• Onigiri— The anime rice ball. Every fan reaches for it to prove they know real Japanese food.

The most common answer on the board.

• Ramen
• Sushi
• Tempura
• Teriyaki

The rarest possible answer — almost no player finds it.

• Death— The whistling bounty hunter stalking Puss in The Last Wish is Death itself, drawn as a wolf, and widely called the best villain the franchise ever made.

Genuinely obscure. Most players never think of it.

• Brogan
• Captain Hook
• Cookie
• Doris— The gravel-voiced Ugly Stepsister who tends the Poison Apple bar, voiced by Larry King.
• Fifi— Rumpelstiltskin's giant goose.
• Lancelot
• Mabel— Doris's sister, the other Ugly Stepsister, voiced by Regis Philbin.
• Mama Luna— The cat lady who takes Puss in after he loses his eighth life.
• Merlin
• Mongo— The giant gingerbread man who storms the castle in Shrek 2. 'Be good.'
• Monsieur Hood— The prancing French Robin Hood who lasts one musical number before Fiona flattens him.
• Pied Piper
• The Dronkeys
• The Ogre Triplets
• The Three Bears
• Thelonious— Lord Farquaad's hooded executioner with the black leather cap.

Uncommon — only a minority of players land here.

• Arthur
• Big Bad Wolf
• Cinderella
• Fairy Godmother
• Goldilocks
• Humpty Dumpty
• Jack Horner
• King Harold
• Kitty Softpaws
• Magic Mirror
• Perrito
• Prince Charming
• Queen Lillian
• Rapunzel
• Rumpelstiltskin
• Sleeping Beauty
• The Muffin Man
• The Three Little Pigs
• Three Blind Mice

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

• Dragon
• Gingerbread Man
• Pinocchio
• Puss in Boots
• Snow White

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

• Lord Farquaad— The tiny tyrant of Duloc. Naming the villain is everyone's favorite way to prove they remember more than Shrek and Donkey. The whole class did too.

The most common answer on the board.

• Donkey
• Fiona
• Shrek

The rarest possible answer — almost no player finds it.

• Zond— A near-forgotten Soviet program that flew tortoises around the Moon in 1968, the first animals to circle another world and return alive.

Genuinely obscure. Most players never think of it.

• Apollo-Soyuz
• BepiColombo
• Blue Ghost
• Buran— The Soviet shuttle. Flew once, uncrewed, perfectly — then never again.
• Chandra
• Chandrayaan— India's lunar program, first to land near the Moon's south pole.
• Chang'e— China's lunar program, the first to land on the Moon's far side.
• Constellation— NASA's canceled return-to-the-Moon program of the 2000s.
• Crew Dragon
• DART— Deliberately crashed into an asteroid to nudge its orbit.
• Dawn
• Deep Impact
• Europa Clipper
• ExoMars
• Explorer 1
• Gaia
• Genesis
• Hayabusa
• Ingenuity
• InSight
• Inspiration4
• JUICE
• Lucy
• Luna
• Lunar Gateway
• Magellan
• Mangalyaan— India reached Mars orbit on the first try, on a budget smaller than the movie Gravity's.
• Mariner
• Mars Express
• MAVEN
• Messenger
• New Shepard
• Odysseus— The first commercial Moon landing, 2024. Tipped over and kept transmitting anyway.
• Orion
• OSIRIS-REx
• Parker Solar Probe
• Pathfinder
• Psyche
• Ranger
• Rosetta— Landed a probe on a comet in 2014.
• Salyut
• Shenzhou
• SOHO
• Spirit
• Spitzer
• Stardust
• Starliner
• Surveyor
• TESS
• Tiangong
• Tianwen
• Ulysses
• Vanguard
• Vega
• Venera— The Soviet Venus program, the only craft to survive on that hellish surface.
• Voskhod

Uncommon — only a minority of players land here.

• Cassini
• Challenger
• Columbia
• Curiosity
• Galileo
• Gemini
• Juno
• Kepler
• Mercury
• Mir
• New Horizons— Flew past Pluto in 2015.
• Opportunity
• Perseverance
• Pioneer
• Skylab
• Soyuz
• Starlink
• Starship
• Viking

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

• Apollo 13— Houston, we have a plankton-adjacent answer.
• Hubble
• International Space Station
• James Webb
• Mars Rover
• Space Shuttle
• Sputnik
• Voyager

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

• Vostok— Gagarin's ride. The 'first human in space, actually' flex, deployed on schedule.

The most common answer on the board.

• Apollo
• Apollo 11
• Artemis

The rarest possible answer — almost no player finds it.

• Babe Zaharias— Won Olympic gold in hurdles and javelin, then switched sports and won ten golf majors. The most versatile champion who ever lived.
• Old Tom Morris— Won four Open Championships in the 1860s and designed St Andrews. Golf's founding father, from before anyone had a driver made of metal.

Genuinely obscure. Most players never think of it.

• Al Geiberger— Mr. 59 — the first man to break 60 in a tour event.
• Amy Alcott
• Andy North— Won three times on tour. Two of them were US Opens.
• Angel Cabrera
• Anna Nordqvist
• Ariya Jutanugarn
• Art Wall
• Ashleigh Buhai
• Ben Curtis
• Betsy King
• Bill Rogers
• Bob Charles— The first left-hander to win a major, the 1963 Open.
• Bob Goalby
• Bob Rosburg
• Bob Tway
• Bobby Locke
• Bobby Nichols
• Cary Middlecoff
• Celine Boutier
• Chandler Harper
• Charl Schwartzel
• Charles Coody
• Chick Evans
• Claude Harmon— The last club pro to win a major, the 1948 Masters. Butch's dad.
• Corey Pavin
• Craig Stadler
• Craig Wood
• Cristie Kerr
• Curtis Strange
• Danielle Kang
• Danny Willett
• Darren Clarke
• Dave Marr
• Dave Stockton
• David Duval
• David Graham
• David Toms
• Davis Love III
• Denny Shute
• Dick Mayer
• Don January
• Doug Ford
• Dow Finsterwald
• Ed Furgol
• Francesco Molinari
• Francis Ouimet— The amateur caddie who stunned the world by winning the 1913 US Open.
• Fred Daly
• Fuzzy Zoeller
• Gary Woodland
• Gay Brewer
• Gene Littler
• Gene Sarazen— Invented the sand wedge and completed the first career Grand Slam.
• Geoff Ogilvy
• George Archer
• Georgia Hall
• Graeme McDowell
• Hal Sutton
• Hale Irwin
• Hannah Green
• Harry Vardon
• Henrik Stenson
• Henry Cotton
• Herman Keiser
• Horton Smith— Won the very first Masters in 1934.
• Hubert Green
• Ian Baker-Finch
• Ian Woosnam
• In Gee Chun
• Inbee Park
• Jack Fleck— The unknown club pro who beat Ben Hogan in a playoff at the 1955 US Open.
• Jackie Burke
• James Braid
• Jason Dufner
• Jay Hebert
• Jeff Sluman
• Jerry Barber
• Jerry Pate
• Jim Barnes
• Jim Ferrier
• Jim Turnesa
• Jimmy Demaret
• Jimmy Walker
• Jin Young Ko
• Jiyai Shin
• John Henry Taylor
• John Mahaffey
• Jose Maria Olazabal
• Juli Inkster
• Julius Boros
• Justin Leonard
• Karrie Webb
• Kathy Whitworth
• Keegan Bradley
• Kel Nagle
• Ken Venturi
• Lanny Wadkins
• Larry Mize— Holed a 140-foot chip to beat Greg Norman at the 1987 Masters. Augusta's own.
• Larry Nelson
• Laura Davies
• Lee Janzen
• Lew Worsham
• Lilia Vu
• Lionel Hebert
• Lloyd Mangrum
• Lorena Ochoa
• Lou Graham
• Louis Oosthuizen
• Lucas Glover
• Lydia Ko
• Mark Brooks
• Mark Calcavecchia
• Mark O'Meara
• Martin Kaymer
• Matt Fitzpatrick
• Max Faulkner
• Michael Campbell
• Mickey Wright— Thirteen majors and, per Ben Hogan, the best swing he ever saw. Full stop.
• Minjee Lee
• Morgan Pressel
• Nick Price
• Orville Moody
• Pat Bradley
• Patty Berg— Fifteen majors — still the record, for anyone.
• Paul Lawrie
• Paul Runyan
• Paula Creamer
• Peter Thomson— Five Open Championships for Australia.
• Ralph Guldahl
• Raymond Floyd
• Retief Goosen
• Rich Beem
• Roberto De Vicenzo
• Sandy Lyle
• Scott Simpson
• Se Ri Pak
• Shaun Micheel
• So Yeon Ryu
• Stacy Lewis
• Steve Elkington
• Steve Jones
• Stewart Cink
• Sung Hyun Park
• Suzann Pettersen
• Ted Ray
• Todd Hamilton
• Tom Kite
• Tom Lehman
• Tom Weiskopf
• Tommy Aaron
• Tommy Armour— The Silver Scot. Yes, the name on the clubs won three majors.
• Tommy Bolt— Won the 1958 US Open between club throws. 'Thunder' Bolt, of course.
• Tony Jacklin
• Tony Lema— 'Champagne Tony' bought the press bubbly after winning the 1964 Open. Gone two years later in a plane crash.
• Trevor Immelman
• Walter Burkemo
• Walter Hagen
• Wayne Grady
• Webb Simpson
• Willie Park— Won the first Open Championship ever played, 1860.
• Y.E. Yang— The only man to run down Tiger in a final-round major duel, 2009 PGA.
• Yani Tseng
• Young Tom Morris— Old Tom's son, who won four Opens of his own before dying at 24.
• Yuka Saso
• Zach Johnson

Uncommon — only a minority of players land here.

• Aaron Rai— The 2026 PGA Championship, his first major, by three shots.
• Adam Scott
• Annika Sorenstam
• Ben Crenshaw
• Bernhard Langer
• Billy Casper
• Brian Harman
• Brooke Henderson
• Bubba Watson
• Byron Nelson
• Cameron Smith
• Collin Morikawa
• Ernie Els
• Fred Couples
• Haeran Ryu— Back-to-back 2026 majors, the Women's PGA and the Evian, for her first two.
• Hideki Matsuyama
• J.J. Spaun— Rain-soaked Oakmont, 2025 — closed with a 64-foot birdie putt.
• Jason Day
• Jim Furyk
• John Daly
• Johnny Miller
• Justin Rose
• Lee Trevino
• Lexi Thompson
• Michelle Wie
• Mike Weir— Canada's Masters champion, 2003.
• Nancy Lopez
• Nelly Korda
• Nick Faldo
• Padraig Harrington
• Patrick Reed
• Paul Azinger
• Payne Stewart
• Ryan Fox— Took his maiden major at Royal Birkdale in the 2026 Open.
• Sam Snead
• Sergio Garcia
• Seve Ballesteros
• Shane Lowry
• Vijay Singh
• Wyndham Clark
• Xander Schauffele

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

• Ben Hogan
• Brooks Koepka
• Bryson DeChambeau
• Dustin Johnson
• Gary Player
• Jon Rahm
• Jordan Spieth
• Justin Thomas
• Scottie Scheffler
• Tom Watson

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

• Bobby Jones— The amateur legend and Masters founder. The golf-history flex, right on cue.
• Greg Norman— The Shark. Famous mostly for the majors he lost, but yes, he won two Opens.

The most common answer on the board.

• Arnold Palmer
• Jack Nicklaus
• Phil Mickelson
• Rory McIlroy
• Tiger Woods

The rarest possible answer — almost no player finds it.

• My Uncle Oswald— A ribald adult novel about a con man selling the sperm of famous men. Yes, Roald Dahl wrote that.

Genuinely obscure. Most players never think of it.

• Ah, Sweet Mystery of Life
• Dirty Beasts
• Going Solo— The sequel to Boy, covering his RAF years.
• Kiss Kiss— A collection of dark short stories for adults.
• Over to You
• Rhyme Stew
• Skin and Other Stories
• Someone Like You— His adult short-story collection, including Lamb to the Slaughter.
• Sometime Never— Dahl's first novel, from 1948 — gremlins, nuclear war, and no children's book in sight.
• Switch Bitch
• Tales of the Unexpected
• The Gremlins— His 1943 debut, written for a Disney film that never got made.
• The Mildenhall Treasure
• The Minpins— His very last children's book, published after his death.
• The Vicar of Nibbleswicke

Uncommon — only a minority of players land here.

• Charlie and the Great Glass Elevator
• Danny, the Champion of the World
• Esio Trot— Tortoise spelled backwards, and it counts.
• Revolting Rhymes
• The Enormous Crocodile
• The Giraffe and the Pelly and Me
• The Magic Finger
• The Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar

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

• Fantastic Mr Fox
• George's Marvellous Medicine
• The Twits
• The Witches

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

• Boy— His autobiography. The 'I read the memoir' flex, right on schedule.

The most common answer on the board.

• Charlie and the Chocolate Factory
• James and the Giant Peach
• Matilda
• The BFG