Krillion Answers for August 16, 2026

Genuinely obscure. Most players never think of it.

• Lesotho
• Republic of the Congo
• San Marino

Uncommon — only a minority of players land here.

• Burkina Faso
• Kosovo
• Montenegro
• Togo
• Trinidad and Tobago

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

• Democratic Republic of the Congo
• Monaco
• Morocco

The most common answer on the board.

• Mexico

The rarest possible answer — almost no player finds it.

• Sea of Crises— Mare Crisium, where Soviet probe Luna 24 drilled samples in 1976.

Genuinely obscure. Most players never think of it.

• Alboran Sea
• Amundsen Sea
• Andaman Sea
• Arafura Sea
• Banda Sea
• Barents Sea
• Beaufort Sea
• Bellingshausen Sea
• Bismarck Sea
• Celebes Sea
• Celtic Sea
• Chukchi Sea
• East Siberian Sea
• Flores Sea
• Greenland Sea
• Java Sea
• Kara Sea
• Labrador Sea
• Laptev Sea
• Ligurian Sea
• Molucca Sea
• Norwegian Sea
• Ross Sea
• Savu Sea
• Scotia Sea
• Sea of Marmara
• Sea of Okhotsk
• Sea of Serenity
• Solomon Sea
• Sulu Sea
• Timor Sea
• Wadden Sea
• Weddell Sea
• White Sea

Uncommon — only a minority of players land here.

• Adriatic Sea
• Aegean Sea
• Aral Sea
• Bering Sea
• Coral Sea
• East China Sea
• Ionian Sea
• Irish Sea
• Philippine Sea
• Salton Sea
• Sea of Azov
• Sea of Cortez
• Sea of Galilee
• Sea of Japan
• Tasman Sea
• Tyrrhenian Sea
• Yellow Sea

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

• Arabian Sea
• Baltic Sea
• Black Sea
• Caspian Sea
• Dead Sea
• North Sea
• South China Sea

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

• Sargasso Sea— No coastline anywhere: it's bounded by four currents, not land.
• Sea of Tranquility— Apollo 11 parked here in 1969, no water required.

The most common answer on the board.

• Caribbean Sea
• Mediterranean Sea
• Red Sea

The rarest possible answer — almost no player finds it.

• Lyrebird— Mimics chainsaws, car alarms, and camera shutters note-perfect.

Genuinely obscure. Most players never think of it.

• Bobolink
• Bowerbird
• Dickcissel
• Dipper
• Dunnock
• Fieldfare
• Goldcrest
• Junco
• Kinglet
• Linnet
• Nuthatch
• Pipit
• Redwing
• Siskin
• Towhee
• Veery
• Vireo
• Waxwing
• Weaver
• Whinchat
• Yellowhammer

Uncommon — only a minority of players land here.

• Bunting
• Catbird
• Chaffinch
• Chickadee
• Cowbird
• Flycatcher
• Goldfinch
• Grackle
• Grosbeak
• Lark
• Martin
• Meadowlark
• Myna
• Oriole
• Shrike
• Tanager
• Thrush
• Tit
• Titmouse
• Warbler

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

• Blackbird
• Blue jay
• Bluebird
• Cardinal
• Crow
• Finch
• Magpie
• Mockingbird
• Nightingale
• Raven
• Starling
• Swallow
• Wren

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

• Bird-of-paradise— New Guinea's flashiest dancers are true passerines, songbirds by blood.
• Bulbul— Over 160 species sing across Africa and Asia.
• Wagtail— Named for a tail that never stops bobbing.

The most common answer on the board.

• Canary
• Robin
• Sparrow

The rarest possible answer — almost no player finds it.

• Buddha jumps over the wall— Legend says the aroma lured a monk over his monastery wall.

Genuinely obscure. Most players never think of it.

• Almond chicken
• Almond cookies
• Ants climbing a tree
• Biang biang noodles
• Century egg
• Cheung fun
• Chongqing chicken
• Clay pot rice
• Crossing the bridge noodles— A scholar's wife kept the broth hot under a layer of oil, crossing a bridge daily to deliver it.
• Cumin lamb
• Dongpo pork
• Drunken chicken
• Dry-fried green beans
• Egg tart
• Gai lan
• Hainanese chicken rice
• Happy family
• Har gow
• Hot dry noodles
• Jianbing
• Lamb skewers
• Liangpi
• Lion's head meatballs
• Lo mai gai
• Luosifen
• Ma la xiang guo
• Malatang
• Mantou
• Moo goo gai pan
• Pineapple bun
• Red braised pork
• Roujiamo
• Sesame balls
• Siu mai
• Siu yuk
• Sizzling rice soup
• Smashed cucumber salad
• Soy sauce chicken
• Spicy wontons
• Stinky tofu
• Stir-fried bok choy
• String bean chicken
• Tanghulu
• Tea eggs
• Three cup chicken
• Tomato and egg stir-fry
• Turnip cake
• Twice-cooked pork
• Water-boiled fish
• White cut chicken
• Youtiao
• Zhajiangmian
• Zongzi

Uncommon — only a minority of players land here.

• Baozi
• Beef noodle soup
• Beijing beef
• Black pepper chicken
• Cashew chicken
• Char siu
• Chicken feet
• Chicken with garlic sauce
• Chop suey
• Chow fun
• Congee
• Crab rangoon
• Egg drop soup
• Egg foo young
• Eggplant with garlic sauce
• Fortune cookie— Invented in California, but it counts.
• Honey walnut shrimp
• Hot pot
• Hunan chicken
• Lemon chicken
• Mapo tofu
• Mei fun
• Mongolian beef
• Moo shu pork
• Mooncake
• Pepper steak
• Salt and pepper shrimp
• Scallion pancakes
• Sesame noodles
• Shrimp toast
• Singapore noodles
• Szechuan chicken

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

• Beef and broccoli
• Chinese spare ribs
• Chow mein
• Dim sum
• Dumplings
• General Tso's chicken
• Hot and sour soup
• Lo mein
• Orange chicken
• Peking duck
• Sesame chicken
• Spring rolls
• Sweet and sour pork
• Wonton noodles
• Wonton soup

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

• Dan dan noodles— Street vendors once hawked it from a bamboo shoulder pole.
• Xiaolongbao— Shanghai steams the broth right inside the wrapper.

The most common answer on the board.

• Fried rice
• Kung pao chicken

The rarest possible answer — almost no player finds it.

• Boothby— Starfleet Academy's groundskeeper, played by Ray Walston, mentored Picard himself.

Genuinely obscure. Most players never think of it.

• Agnes Jurati
• Amanda Grayson
• Barclay
• Boimler
• Captain Shaw
• Christine Chapel
• Cleveland Booker
• Cristobal Rios
• Damar
• Dukat
• Elnor
• Ezri Dax
• Gabriel Lorca
• Gowron
• Guinan
• Harry Kim
• Harry Mudd
• Hemmer
• Hoshi Sato
• Hugh
• Jack Crusher
• Jake Sisko
• Janice Rand
• Jonathan Archer
• Kahless
• Kai Winn
• Keiko O'Brien
• Kes
• Kira Nerys
• La'an
• Locutus
• Lore
• Lwaxana Troi
• M'Benga
• Malcolm Reed
• Mariner
• Martok
• Michael Burnham
• Miles O'Brien
• Morn
• Neelix
• Nero
• Nog
• Noonien Soong
• Ortegas
• Philippa Georgiou
• Phlox
• Pulaski
• Raffi
• Ro Laren
• Rom
• Rutherford
• Saavik
• Sarek
• Saru
• Shran
• Soji
• Spot
• Stamets
• Sybok
• T'Pol
• Tasha Yar
• Tendi
• Tilly
• Trip Tucker
• Una
• Vic Fontaine
• Weyoun

Uncommon — only a minority of players land here.

• B'Elanna Torres
• Benjamin Sisko
• Borg Queen
• Chakotay
• Chekov
• Christopher Pike
• Deanna Troi
• Garak
• Jadzia Dax
• Julian Bashir
• Odo
• Quark
• The Doctor
• Tom Paris
• Tuvok
• Wesley Crusher

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

• Beverly Crusher
• Captain Janeway
• Data
• Geordi La Forge
• Leonard McCoy
• Riker
• Scotty
• Seven of Nine
• Sulu
• Uhura
• Worf

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

• Khan— That chest was really Ricardo Montalbán's, no prosthetics involved.
• Q— Bookended Next Generation, from Farpoint to All Good Things.

The most common answer on the board.

• Captain Kirk
• Captain Picard
• Spock

The rarest possible answer — almost no player finds it.

• Forensic pathology— Determines cause of death for courts, one autopsy at a time.

Genuinely obscure. Most players never think of it.

• Addiction medicine
• Dermatopathology
• Hepatology
• Interventional radiology
• Medical genetics
• Neonatology
• Nuclear medicine
• Oral and maxillofacial surgery
• Pediatric cardiology
• Phlebology
• Physical medicine and rehabilitation
• Proctology

Uncommon — only a minority of players land here.

• Allergy medicine
• Cardiothoracic surgery
• Critical care
• Emergency medicine
• Endocrinology
• Gastroenterology
• Hematology
• Immunology
• Nephrology
• Occupational medicine
• Pain management
• Palliative care
• Pathology
• Preventive medicine
• Pulmonology
• Rheumatology
• Sleep medicine
• Trauma surgery
• Urology
• Vascular surgery

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

• Anesthesiology
• General practice
• Gynecology
• Infectious disease
• Internal medicine
• Neurology
• Neurosurgery
• Oncology
• Ophthalmology
• Orthopedics
• Plastic surgery
• Psychiatry
• Radiology
• Sports medicine
• Surgery

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

• Geriatrics— Medicine for the fastest-growing age bracket on Earth.
• Otolaryngology— Covers ears, nose, throat, plus most of the head and neck.

The most common answer on the board.

• Cardiology
• Dermatology
• Family medicine
• Pediatrics

The rarest possible answer — almost no player finds it.

• Cooper Black— Garfield's logo and the Pet Sounds cover share this 1922 face.

Genuinely obscure. Most players never think of it.

• Akzidenz-Grotesk
• Algerian
• American Typewriter
• Avant Garde
• Bebas Neue
• Bodoni
• Bradley Hand
• Broadway
• Caslon
• Chalkboard
• Clarendon
• Curlz
• Didot
• Fira Code
• Frutiger
• Hobo
• Inter
• JetBrains Mono
• Marker Felt
• Menlo
• Minion
• Mistral
• Myriad
• Optima
• Oswald
• Palatino
• Proxima Nova
• Raleway
• Sabon
• Source Sans
• Univers
• Zapf Dingbats

Uncommon — only a minority of players land here.

• Avenir
• Baskerville
• Bookman
• Brush Script
• Cambria
• Century Gothic
• Century Schoolbook
• Consolas
• Copperplate
• Franklin Gothic
• Futura
• Gill Sans
• Gotham
• Impact— Top text and bottom text since the earliest image macros.
• Jokerman
• Lucida
• Monaco
• Rockwell
• San Francisco
• Segoe UI
• Tahoma
• Webdings

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

• Aptos
• Calibri
• Courier New
• Garamond
• Georgia
• Lato
• Montserrat
• Open Sans
• Poppins
• Roboto
• Trebuchet MS
• Verdana

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

• Comic Sans— Vincent Connare designed it in 1994 for Microsoft Bob.
• Papyrus— Avatar's logo choice haunted Ryan Gosling in an SNL sketch.
• Wingdings— Bundled with Windows since 3.1, it renders letters as symbols.

The most common answer on the board.

• Arial
• Helvetica
• Times New Roman