Krillion Answers for August 12, 2026

The rarest possible answer — almost no player finds it.

• Nigerian Pidgin— Over 100 million speakers and almost no one lists it as a language. West Africa's lingua franca.

Genuinely obscure. Most players never think of it.

• Bhojpuri
• Egyptian Arabic
• Hausa
• Kannada
• Marathi
• Pashto
• Telugu
• Wu Chinese

Uncommon — only a minority of players land here.

• Amharic
• Bengali
• Gujarati
• Indonesian
• Malay
• Persian
• Punjabi
• Swahili
• Tamil
• Thai
• Urdu
• Vietnamese

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

• German
• Hindi
• Italian
• Japanese
• Korean
• Portuguese
• Russian
• Tagalog
• Turkish

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

• Cantonese— The 'well actually it's separate from Mandarin' pick. It is, and it clears 50 million. We know.
• Javanese— The 'bet you didn't know Java is a language' flex. 80 million strong.

The most common answer on the board.

• Arabic
• English
• French
• Mandarin
• Spanish

The rarest possible answer — almost no player finds it.

• Aye-aye— A nocturnal lemur that taps trees and fishes out grubs with one elongated finger. Nightmare fuel, endangered gem.
• Oilbird— A South American bird that leaves its cave only after dark and navigates by echolocation — clicking its way through the black like a bat that took a different job.

Genuinely obscure. Most players never think of it.

• Bandicoot
• Bilby
• Binturong
• Colugo
• Dormouse
• Douroucouli
• Earwig
• Echidna
• Fossa
• Ghost crab
• Glow-worm
• Hermit crab
• Jerboa
• Kakapo
• Kinkajou
• Kiwi
• Margay
• Marten
• Mink
• Mouse lemur
• Night heron
• Olinguito
• Pangolin
• Potoo
• Potto
• Quoll
• Raccoon dog
• Ringtail
• Serval
• Shrew
• Slow loris
• Springhare
• Stoat

Uncommon — only a minority of players land here.

• Anteater
• Armadillo
• Bobcat
• Bushbaby
• Capybara
• Caracal
• Catfish
• Centipede
• Chinchilla
• Civet
• Cockroach
• Cougar
• Eel
• Fennec fox
• Ferret
• Gecko
• Genet
• Hare
• Honey badger
• Hyena
• Jaguar
• Leopard
• Lynx
• Nighthawk
• Nightingale
• Nightjar
• Ocelot
• Otter
• Platypus
• Porcupine
• Red panda
• Salamander
• Scorpion
• Sloth
• Slug
• Snail
• Tarantula
• Tasmanian devil
• Toad
• Wallaby
• Weasel
• Wild boar
• Wombat

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

• Badger
• Beaver
• Cat
• Coyote
• Cricket
• Firefly
• Flying squirrel
• Frog
• Hamster
• Hedgehog
• Hippopotamus
• Kangaroo
• Koala
• Lion
• Moth
• Mouse
• Possum
• Rabbit
• Rat
• Skunk
• Sugar glider
• Tiger
• Wolf

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

• Aardvark— The 'starts with double-A' trivia darling, deployed for the night shift.
• Tarsier— Big eyes, viral photos. The 'quirky nocturnal primate' flex.

The most common answer on the board.

• Bat
• Fox
• Owl
• Raccoon

The rarest possible answer — almost no player finds it.

• Tamagoyaki— Japanese rolled omelette, layered egg by egg in a rectangular pan. Breakfast as origami.

Genuinely obscure. Most players never think of it.

• Arepa
• Bircher muesli
• Black pudding
• Blintz
• Breakfast tamales
• Century egg
• Chia pudding
• Chilaquiles
• Dutch baby
• Egg bites
• Ful medames
• Gallo pinto
• Jianbing
• Kaya toast
• Kedgeree
• Kippers
• Kolache
• Malt-O-Meal
• Medu vada
• Menemen
• Migas
• Miso soup
• Monkey bread
• Nasi lemak
• Natto
• Pandesal
• Pho
• Scrapple
• Soy milk
• Spam and eggs
• Tamago kake gohan
• Upma
• Youtiao

Uncommon — only a minority of players land here.

• Baked beans
• Beignet
• Biscuits and gravy
• Breakfast casserole
• Breakfast pizza
• Churros
• Coffee cake
• Corned beef hash
• Cottage cheese
• Cream of Wheat
• Crepes
• Crumpet
• Dim sum
• Dosa
• Frittata
• Full English breakfast
• Granola
• Granola bar
• Grits
• Hot chocolate
• Huevos rancheros
• Idli
• Lox
• Pain au chocolat
• Paratha
• Poha
• Protein shake
• Quiche
• Steak and eggs
• Toaster Strudel

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

• Açaí bowl
• Avocado toast
• Bagel
• Banana bread
• Biscuit
• Breakfast burrito
• Breakfast sandwich
• Breakfast tacos
• Cinnamon roll
• Croissant
• Danish
• Doughnut
• Eggs Benedict
• English muffin
• French toast
• Fruit
• Ham
• Hash browns
• Home fries
• Milk
• Muffin
• Oatmeal
• Omelette
• Overnight oats
• Parfait
• Pop-Tarts
• Sausage
• Scone
• Smoothie
• Tea
• Toast
• Yogurt

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

• Congee— The 'I've traveled' rice-porridge pick. Every brunch snob knows it now.
• Shakshuka— The Instagram brunch flex, eggs poached in tomato. The whole cafe menu agrees.

The most common answer on the board.

• Bacon
• Cereal
• Coffee
• Eggs
• Orange juice
• Pancakes
• Waffles

The rarest possible answer — almost no player finds it.

• Doorman— A Great Lakes Avenger who teleports by turning his own body into a doorway to the Darkforce Dimension. So deep a cut the MCU only just used him.

Genuinely obscure. Most players never think of it.

• Ares
• Black Knight
• Blue Marvel
• Cannonball
• Crystal
• D-Man— A former wrestler in a Daredevil-and-Wolverine mashup costume who became one of Captain America's most loyal auxiliary Avengers.
• Doctor Druid
• Firestar
• Ghost Rider
• Gilgamesh
• Hank Pym
• Hellcat
• Jocasta— A robot Ultron built from the Wasp's brainwaves to be his bride. She switched sides and joined the Avengers instead.
• Justice
• Living Lightning
• Machine Man
• Mantis
• Mockingbird
• Moondragon
• Quasar
• Rage
• Sersi
• Silverclaw
• Starfox
• Stingray
• Sunspot
• Swordsman
• Thunderstrike
• Tigra
• Triathlon
• Wonder Man

Uncommon — only a minority of players land here.

• America Chavez
• Beast
• Captain Britain
• Deadpool
• Echo
• Hercules
• Iron Fist
• Jessica Jones
• Kate Bishop
• Luke Cage
• Moon Knight
• Ms. Marvel
• Namor
• Nova
• Quicksilver
• Red Hulk
• Sentry
• She-Hulk
• Spectrum
• Spider-Woman
• Storm
• U.S. Agent
• War Machine
• Winter Soldier
• Wolverine

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

• Ant-Man
• Black Panther
• Black Widow
• Captain Marvel
• Daredevil
• Doctor Strange
• Falcon
• Hawkeye
• Scarlet Witch
• Shang-Chi
• Spider-Man— Yes, he counts. He joined the New Avengers in the comics in 2005, whatever the movies imply.
• Valkyrie
• Vision— The synthezoid Avenger. A solid mid-tier pull that a good chunk of the class also landed.
• Wasp— A founding Avenger who literally coined the team's name. The knowing mid-tier pick.

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

• Squirrel Girl— The Unbeatable Squirrel Girl. The internet's favorite way to feel clever about the Avengers. The whole class typed her too.

The most common answer on the board.

• Captain America
• Hulk
• Iron Man
• Thor

The rarest possible answer — almost no player finds it.

• Carcinology— The scientific study of crustaceans. Krill included. Our house specialty.

Genuinely obscure. Most players never think of it.

• Andrology
• Arachnology
• Audiology
• Bryology
• Cetology
• Conchology
• Cryobiology
• Dendrology
• Dialectology
• Electrophysiology
• Ethnology
• Geomorphology
• Helminthology
• Hepatology
• Ichthyology
• Lepidopterology
• Limnology
• Malacology
• Metrology
• Mycology
• Myrmecology
• Nematology
• Neonatology
• Oenology
• Oology
• Otolaryngology
• Palynology
• Philology
• Planetology
• Psychopathology
• Rheology
• Sedimentology
• Selenology
• Serology
• Speleology
• Tribology
• Volcanology

Uncommon — only a minority of players land here.

• Anesthesiology
• Astrobiology
• Bacteriology
• Climatology
• Cytology
• Embryology
• Endocrinology
• Entomology
• Epidemiology
• Ethology
• Etymology
• Gastroenterology
• Gerontology
• Glaciology
• Hematology
• Histology
• Hydrology
• Immunology
• Kinesiology
• Morphology
• Nephrology
• Oceanology
• Oncology
• Ophthalmology
• Ornithology— Bird science. The birdwatcher's badge.
• Parasitology
• Petrology
• Pharmacology
• Phonology
• Primatology
• Proctology
• Rheumatology
• Seismology
• Toxicology

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

• Anthropology
• Archaeology
• Cardiology
• Cosmology
• Criminology
• Dermatology
• Ecology
• Gynecology
• Meteorology
• Microbiology
• Neurology
• Paleontology
• Pathology
• Physiology
• Radiology
• Sociology
• Urology
• Virology

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

• Herpetology— The 'I know it means reptiles' flex. Congratulations, so does everyone.

The most common answer on the board.

• Biology
• Geology
• Psychology
• Zoology

The rarest possible answer — almost no player finds it.

• Cao Dai— Founded in Vietnam in 1926 with its own Holy See in Tây Ninh — and Victor Hugo canonized as a saint. Millions of followers, one great answer.
• Tenrikyo— A Japanese faith so established that its headquarters town is literally named Tenri. Its own city, millions of adherents, almost zero Western name recognition.

Genuinely obscure. Most players never think of it.

• African traditional religion
• Ahmadiyya
• Alawites
• Alevism
• Cheondoism
• Chinese folk religion
• Confucianism
• Coptic Christianity
• Druze
• Ethiopian Orthodox Tewahedo
• Falun Gong
• Hoa Hao
• Ibadi Islam
• Ismailism
• Jainism
• Mahayana Buddhism
• Mennonites
• Nichiren Buddhism
• Pure Land Buddhism
• Shaivism
• Shaktism
• Soka Gakkai
• Spiritism
• Sufism
• Swaminarayan
• Theravada Buddhism
• Tibetan Buddhism
• Vaishnavism
• Vodou
• Wicca
• Zen Buddhism

Uncommon — only a minority of players land here.

• Anglicanism
• Baptist
• Calvinism
• Evangelicalism
• Jehovah's Witnesses
• Lutheranism
• Methodism
• Pentecostalism
• Presbyterianism
• Seventh-day Adventism
• Shinto
• Taoism

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

• Catholicism
• Mormonism
• Orthodox Christianity
• Protestantism
• Shia Islam
• Sikhism
• Sunni Islam

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

• Bahá'í Faith— The 'name a world religion nobody's heard of' reach. Several million Bahá'ís — and apparently every trivia night — have heard of it.

The most common answer on the board.

• Buddhism
• Christianity
• Hinduism
• Islam
• Judaism

The rarest possible answer — almost no player finds it.

• Dominica— Not the Dominican Republic. A separate sovereign island of volcanoes and rainforest that most players have never once thought about. That's the gem.

Genuinely obscure. Most players never think of it.

• Antigua and Barbuda
• Bosnia and Herzegovina
• Botswana
• Czechia— The official short name since 2016. 'Czech Republic' doesn't end in A — Czechia does.
• Equatorial Guinea
• Eritrea
• Gambia
• Grenada
• Guinea
• Liberia
• Mauritania
• Micronesia
• Namibia
• North Macedonia
• Papua New Guinea
• Saint Lucia
• Samoa
• Tonga

Uncommon — only a minority of players land here.

• Albania
• Algeria
• Angola
• Armenia
• Bolivia
• Bulgaria
• Cambodia
• Croatia
• Estonia
• Ethiopia
• Georgia
• Ghana
• Guatemala
• Guyana
• Latvia
• Libya
• Lithuania
• Malta
• Moldova
• Mongolia
• Nicaragua
• Romania
• Rwanda
• Serbia
• Slovakia
• Slovenia
• Somalia
• Sri Lanka
• Syria
• Tanzania
• Tunisia
• Uganda
• Venezuela
• Zambia

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

• Argentina
• Austria
• Colombia
• Costa Rica
• Cuba
• Indonesia
• Jamaica
• Kenya
• Malaysia
• Nigeria
• North Korea
• Panama
• Saudi Arabia
• South Africa
• South Korea

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

• Andorra— The microstate flex — tiny, Pyrenean, and somehow the first 'clever' pick in every letter game. The whole ski lift typed it too.

The most common answer on the board.

• Australia
• Canada
• China
• India
• Russia