Krillion Answers for August 14, 2026

Genuinely obscure. Most players never think of it.

• Mali
• Niue— Home to 1,700 people, every one a New Zealand citizen.
• Oman
• Togo

Uncommon — only a minority of players land here.

• Chad
• Fiji
• Laos

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

• Iraq
• Peru

The most common answer on the board.

• Cuba
• Iran

The rarest possible answer — almost no player finds it.

• Pancake tortoise— Too flat to hide inside itself, so it wedges into rock cracks.

Genuinely obscure. Most players never think of it.

• African helmeted turtle
• Arrau turtle
• Big-headed turtle
• Blanding's turtle
• Bog turtle
• Burmese star tortoise
• Caspian turtle
• Chaco tortoise
• Chicken turtle
• Egyptian tortoise
• Elongated tortoise
• European pond turtle
• Flat-tailed tortoise
• Flatback
• Fly River turtle
• Gopher tortoise
• Hingeback tortoise
• Impressed tortoise
• Indian roofed turtle
• Marginated tortoise
• Mary River turtle
• Matamata
• Olive ridley
• Pig-nosed turtle
• Pinta Island tortoise
• Ploughshare tortoise
• Radiated tortoise
• Razorback musk turtle
• Reeves' turtle
• Spider tortoise
• Texas tortoise
• Wood turtle
• Yangtze giant softshell turtle
• Yellow-footed tortoise

Uncommon — only a minority of players land here.

• African sideneck turtle
• Aldabra tortoise
• Cooter
• Giant tortoise
• Greek tortoise
• Hermann's tortoise
• Indian star tortoise
• Leopard tortoise
• Map turtle
• Mud turtle
• Musk turtle
• Red-footed tortoise
• Russian tortoise
• Side-necked turtle
• Snake-necked turtle
• Softshell turtle
• Spiny softshell
• Spotted turtle
• Sulcata tortoise

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

• Common snapping turtle
• Desert tortoise
• Galapagos tortoise
• Green sea turtle
• Hawksbill
• Leatherback
• Loggerhead
• Painted turtle
• Red-eared slider
• Terrapin

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

• Alligator snapping turtle— Fishes by wiggling a built-in worm lure on its tongue.
• Kemp's ridley— Nearly every one alive hatched on the same Mexican beach.

The most common answer on the board.

• Box turtle
• Sea turtle
• Snapping turtle

The rarest possible answer — almost no player finds it.

• Beverly— Coke's bitter Italian aperitivo, kept alive mainly to ambush Atlanta tourists.

Genuinely obscure. Most players never think of it.

• Ale-8-One
• Almdudler
• Appletiser
• Cactus Cooler
• Cheerwine
• Club-Mate
• Cockta
• Cott
• Dad's Root Beer
• Diet Rite
• Double Cola
• Dr Thunder
• Faygo
• Fentimans
• Guaraná Antarctica
• Hires
• IBC
• Inca Kola
• Irn-Bru
• Jolt
• Kirks
• Kofola
• Kola Real
• L&P
• Lilt
• Limca
• Lucozade
• Manzanita Sol
• Mirinda
• Moxie
• Nehi
• Old Jamaica
• Peñafiel
• Postobon
• Q Mixers
• Ramune
• Reed's
• Rubicon
• Sam's Cola
• Sidral Mundet
• Solo
• Sprecher
• Tango
• Thums Up
• Ting
• Tizer
• Vernors
• Vess
• Vimto
• Welch's

Uncommon — only a minority of players land here.

• Barq's
• Big K
• Big Red
• Boylan
• Bundaberg
• Fever-Tree
• Fresca
• Mug
• Polar
• RC Cola
• Seagram's
• Shasta
• Sierra Mist
• Slice
• Squirt
• Stewart's
• Sun Drop
• Tab
• Virgil's
• Zevia

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

• 7 Up
• A&W
• Baja Blast
• Bubly
• Canada Dry
• Crush
• Jones Soda
• LaCroix
• Mello Yello
• Mountain Dew
• Olipop
• Orangina
• Perrier
• Pibb Xtra
• Poppi
• Schweppes
• Spindrift
• Sunkist
• Surge
• Topo Chico

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

• Jarritos— Mexico's taqueria staple, and the glass bottle is doing half the work.
• San Pellegrino— Bottled since 1899, owned by Nestlé since 1997.

The most common answer on the board.

• Coca-Cola
• Dr Pepper
• Fanta
• Pepsi
• Sprite

The rarest possible answer — almost no player finds it.

• Gifford's— Five generations of one Maine family, still churning in Skowhegan.

Genuinely obscure. Most players never think of it.

• Abbott's Frozen Custard
• Alden's
• Amul— Founded by dairy farmers in 1946, now India's biggest ice cream brand.
• Amy's Ice Creams
• Andy's Frozen Custard
• Arctic Zero
• Bassetts
• Bi-Rite
• Big Gay Ice Cream
• Blue Ribbon
• Braum's
• Bubbies
• Bulla
• Carte d'Or
• Ciao Bella
• Connoisseur
• Coolhaus
• COWS
• Creambell
• Emack & Bolio's
• Feast
• Freddy's
• Gelato Messina
• Golden Gaytime
• Graeter's
• Great Value
• Havmor
• HB
• Hudsonville
• Humphry Slocombe
• It's-It— Oatmeal cookies, vanilla ice cream, chocolate dip — San Francisco's since 1928.
• Kawartha Dairy
• Kelly's of Cornwall
• Kibon
• Kirkland Signature
• Kopp's
• Kwality Wall's
• La Michoacana— Mexico's paleta shops share the name by tradition, not by franchise.
• Leopold's
• Lotte
• Mackie's
• Mado
• Magnolia
• Mayfield
• McConnell's
• Meiji
• Molly Moon's
• Morgenstern's
• Mother Dairy
• Movenpick
• Mr Whippy
• My/Mochi
• NadaMoo
• Oberweis
• Peters
• Prairie Farms
• Purity
• Schwan's
• Screwball
• Selecta
• Solero
• Straus
• Streets
• Three Twins
• Tip Top
• Toft's
• Twister
• Umpqua
• Vadilal
• Velvet
• Wall's Cornetto
• Wells
• Whitey's
• Yuengling's

Uncommon — only a minority of players land here.

• Ample Hills
• Blue Bell— Texas will fight you over this one.
• Blue Bunny
• Bomb Pop
• Brigham's
• Bruster's
• Chapman's
• Creamsicle
• Culver's
• Enlightened
• Eskimo Pie
• Friendly's
• Fudgsicle
• Good Humor
• Handel's
• Hood
• Kemps
• Kilwins
• Marble Slab Creamery
• Naturals
• Nick's
• Oatly
• Perry's
• Rita's
• Sara Lee
• Skinny Cow
• So Delicious
• Thrifty
• Tillamook
• Tofutti
• Turkey Hill
• Viennetta
• Wall's
• Yasso

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

• Carvel
• Cold Stone Creamery
• Dairy Queen
• Dippin' Dots
• Drumstick
• Edy's
• Halo Top
• Hershey's Ice Cream
• Klondike
• Magnum
• Mister Softee
• Nestlé
• Popsicle
• Salt & Straw
• Talenti

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

• Jeni's— Columbus-born, and the $12 pint is part of the point.
• Van Leeuwen— One Brooklyn truck in 2008, a Kraft mac-and-cheese flavor by 2021.

The most common answer on the board.

• Baskin-Robbins
• Ben & Jerry's
• Breyers
• Häagen-Dazs

The rarest possible answer — almost no player finds it.

• Ediacaran— Ratified only in 2004, the first new geological period in 120 years.

Genuinely obscure. Most players never think of it.

• Calymmian
• Cisuralian
• Cryogenian
• Ectasian
• Eoarchean
• Furongian
• Guadalupian
• Llandovery
• Lopingian
• Ludlow
• Mesoarchean
• Mesoproterozoic
• Mississippian
• Neoarchean
• Neoproterozoic
• Orosirian
• Paleoarchean
• Paleoproterozoic
• Pennsylvanian
• Pridoli
• Rhyacian
• Siderian
• Statherian
• Stenian
• Terreneuvian
• Tonian
• Wenlock

Uncommon — only a minority of players land here.

• Archean
• Eocene
• Hadean
• Miocene
• Neogene
• Oligocene
• Ordovician
• Paleocene
• Paleogene
• Phanerozoic
• Pliocene
• Proterozoic
• Quaternary
• Silurian
• Tertiary

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

• Cambrian
• Cenozoic
• Devonian
• Holocene
• Mesozoic
• Paleozoic
• Permian
• Pleistocene
• Precambrian

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

• Anthropocene— Sounds current, but stratigraphers formally voted it down in 2024.
• Carboniferous— Oxygen ran so high that dragonflies grew to seagull size.

The most common answer on the board.

• Cretaceous
• Jurassic
• Triassic

The rarest possible answer — almost no player finds it.

• Knucklebones— Jacks' ancestor, played with real sheep ankle bones in ancient Greece.

Genuinely obscure. Most players never think of it.

• Cat's cradle
• Champ
• Conkers
• Crack the whip
• Down by the banks
• Down down baby
• Downball
• Egg and spoon race
• Elastics
• Five hundred
• Forty forty in
• Gilli danda
• Grandmother's footsteps
• Kabaddi
• Kerby
• Kho kho
• Kiss chase
• Lagori
• Langdi
• Miss Mary Mack
• Octopus
• Oranges and lemons
• Pickle
• Poison ball
• Red hands
• Skully
• Statues
• Steal the bacon
• Stuck in the mud

Uncommon — only a minority of players land here.

• Blind man's bluff
• Butts up
• Cooties
• Four corners
• Freeze dance
• Gaga ball
• Ghost in the graveyard
• Grounders
• Hacky sack
• Hot potato
• Jacks
• Lava monster
• Leapfrog
• London Bridge
• Manhunt
• Relay race
• Ring around the rosie
• Sack race
• Sardines
• Spud
• Stickball
• Tetherball
• Three-legged race
• Thumb war
• What Time Is It, Mr. Wolf?

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

• Capture the flag
• Cops and robbers
• Dodgeball
• Duck duck goose
• Freeze tag
• Handball
• Heads up, seven up
• HORSE
• Jump rope
• Keep away
• Kickball
• King of the hill
• Knockout
• Marbles
• Marco Polo
• Mother May I?
• Musical chairs
• Patty-cake
• Red light green light
• Red rover
• Rock paper scissors
• Sharks and minnows
• Simon says
• Telephone
• The floor is lava
• Tug of war
• Wall ball

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

• British Bulldog— Repeatedly banned by British schools, which is half its legend.
• Kick the can— Hide-and-seek where kicking the can jailbreaks everyone caught.

The most common answer on the board.

• Four square
• Hide and seek
• Hopscotch
• Tag

The rarest possible answer — almost no player finds it.

• Vatu— Vanuatu's money has no cents; one vatu is the smallest unit.

Genuinely obscure. Most players never think of it.

• Ariary
• Caribbean guilder
• Cedi
• Convertible mark
• Dalasi
• Dobra
• Gourde
• Kip
• Kwacha
• Lek
• Leone
• Lilangeni
• Loti
• Metical
• Naira
• Nakfa
• Ngultrum
• Ouguiya
• Paʻanga
• Pataca
• Rufiyaa
• Somoni
• Taka
• Tala
• Tugrik
• Zimbabwe Gold

Uncommon — only a minority of players land here.

• Afghani
• Baht
• Balboa
• Birr
• Bolívar
• Boliviano
• Colón
• Denar
• Dinar
• Dirham
• Dram
• Escudo
• Florin
• Guaraní
• Hryvnia
• Koruna
• Krona
• Kwanza
• Kyat
• Lari
• Lempira
• Leu
• Lira
• Manat
• Nicaraguan córdoba
• Papua New Guinean kina
• Pula
• Quetzal
• Riel
• Ringgit
• Shekel
• Som
• Tenge

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

• Đồng
• Franc
• Peso
• Rand
• Real
• Rial
• Ruble
• Rupee
• Rupiah
• Shilling
• Sol
• Won
• Yuan

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

• Forint— Named for Florence, whose gold florin all of Europe once copied.
• Zloty— Literally 'golden' in Polish, and it shed four zeros in 1995.

The most common answer on the board.

• Dollar
• Euro
• Pound
• Yen