Krillion Answers for August 21, 2026

The rarest possible answer — almost no player finds it.

• Gujeolpan— Nine-sectioned royal platter once served to Joseon kings.

Genuinely obscure. Most players never think of it.

• Baek kimchi
• Beondegi
• Bibim guksu
• Bindaetteok
• Bingsu
• Bungeoppang
• Corn cheese
• Dakbokkeumtang
• Dalgona
• Doenjang jjigae
• Dongchimi
• Donkatsu
• Dubu kimchi
• Eomuk
• Galbijjim
• Galbitang
• Gamjatang
• Ganjang gejang
• Gomtang
• Gopchang
• Gukbap
• Gyeranjjim
• Gyeranppang
• Haejangguk
• Haemultang
• Jeyuk bokkeum
• Jjapaguri— The Parasite noodle dish, steak optional.
• Jjimdak
• Jokbal
• Juk
• Kalguksu
• Kimchijeon
• Kkakdugi
• Kongguksu
• Maeuntang
• Miyeokguk
• Nakji bokkeum
• Nurungji
• Rabokki
• Seolleongtang
• Songpyeon
• Sundae— Blood sausage, not the ice cream.
• Tangsuyuk
• Tteok
• Yakgwa
• Yukgaejang
• Yukhoe

Uncommon — only a minority of players land here.

• Banchan
• Bossam
• Budae jjigae
• Buldak
• Dakgalbi
• Dakgangjeong
• Haemul pajeon
• Hotteok
• Jjajangmyeon
• Jjamppong
• Kimchi jjigae
• Mandu
• Mandu-guk
• Mul naengmyeon
• Naengmyeon
• Samgyeopsal
• Samgyetang
• Sundubu jjigae
• Tteokgalbi
• Tteokguk

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

• Galbi
• Gochujang— Technically a paste, allowed in on a squint.
• Japchae
• Kimbap
• Kimchi fried rice
• Korean corn dog
• Korean fried chicken
• Ramyeon
• Tteokbokki

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

• Sannakji— Served still wriggling, suction cups and all.

The most common answer on the board.

• Bibimbap
• Bulgogi
• Kimchi
• Korean barbecue

The rarest possible answer — almost no player finds it.

• Boiling Lake— A flooded volcanic fumarole in Dominica that visibly boils.

Genuinely obscure. Most players never think of it.

• Aral Sea
• Bear Lake
• Caddo Lake
• Cayuga Lake
• Chautauqua Lake
• Chiemsee
• Crystal Lake— A real Michigan lake, whatever Jason did to the fictional one.
• Devils Lake
• Dongting Lake
• Flathead Lake
• Great Bear Lake
• Great Slave Lake
• Inle Lake
• Issyk-Kul
• Jackson Lake
• Kentucky Lake
• Lago Argentino
• Lake Albert
• Lake Annecy
• Lake Assal
• Lake Athabasca
• Lake Atitlan
• Lake Balaton
• Lake Balkhash
• Lake Biwa
• Lake Burley Griffin
• Lake Chapala
• Lake Chelan
• Lake Coeur d'Alene
• Lake Constance
• Lake Cumberland
• Lake Edward
• Lake Eyre
• Lake General Carrera
• Lake Guatavita
• Lake Guntersville
• Lake Hartwell
• Lake Hillier— Bubblegum pink, permanently, and science is still arguing about why.
• Lake Iliamna
• Lake Kariba
• Lake Kawaguchi
• Lake Kivu
• Lake Ladoga
• Lake Lanier
• Lake Lucerne
• Lake Lugano
• Lake Maggiore
• Lake Managua
• Lake Manitoba
• Lake Maracaibo
• Lake Minnetonka
• Lake Murray
• Lake Muskoka
• Lake Mweru
• Lake Nakuru
• Lake Nasser
• Lake Natron
• Lake Nicaragua
• Lake Nipissing
• Lake Norman
• Lake Nyos
• Lake Oahe
• Lake of the Woods
• Lake Ohrid
• Lake Okeechobee
• Lake Okoboji
• Lake Onega
• Lake Patzcuaro
• Lake Peipus
• Lake Retba
• Lake Rotorua
• Lake Saimaa
• Lake Sakakawea
• Lake Sammamish
• Lake Sevan
• Lake Simcoe
• Lake St. Clair
• Lake Tai
• Lake Taupo
• Lake Te Anau
• Lake Tekapo
• Lake Texoma
• Lake Toba
• Lake Travis
• Lake Turkana
• Lake Urmia
• Lake Van
• Lake Vanern
• Lake Vattern
• Lake Volta
• Lake Vostok— Buried under two miles of Antarctic ice for millions of years.
• Lake Wakatipu
• Lake Wanaka
• Lake Washington
• Lake Winnebago
• Lake Winnipesaukee
• Lake Zurich
• Loch Lomond
• Lough Neagh
• Mille Lacs
• Mono Lake
• Moosehead Lake
• Moraine Lake
• Nahuel Huapi
• Okanagan Lake
• Oneida Lake
• Pangong Tso
• Poyang Lake
• Pyramid Lake
• Qinghai Lake
• Reindeer Lake
• Salton Sea— Born from a 1905 canal accident and slowly evaporating ever since.
• Sebago Lake
• Seneca Lake
• Shasta Lake
• Taal Lake
• Table Rock Lake
• Tonle Sap
• Torch Lake
• Ullswater
• Utah Lake
• West Lake
• Yellowstone Lake

Uncommon — only a minority of players land here.

• Crater Lake
• Dead Sea— Nine times saltier than the ocean, and still a lake.
• Lake Bled
• Lake Chad
• Lake Champlain
• Lake Como
• Lake Garda
• Lake Geneva
• Lake George
• Lake Havasu
• Lake Louise
• Lake Malawi
• Lake Mead
• Lake of the Ozarks
• Lake Placid
• Lake Pontchartrain
• Lake Powell
• Lake Tanganyika
• Lake Windermere
• Lake Winnipeg
• Sea of Galilee— Freshwater all along, whatever the map calls it.

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

• Great Salt Lake
• Lake Erie
• Lake Huron
• Lake Ontario
• Lake Tahoe
• Lake Titicaca
• Loch Ness— A loch is just a lake with a Scottish accent.

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

• Caspian Sea— Salty, endorheic, and still filed as the world's largest lake.
• Lake Baikal— Deepest lake on Earth, holding a fifth of its fresh water.

The most common answer on the board.

• Lake Michigan
• Lake Superior
• Lake Victoria

The rarest possible answer — almost no player finds it.

• Happy Feet Two— He voices Bill the Krill, one crustacean among billions.

Genuinely obscure. Most players never think of it.

• All the Pretty Horses
• Behind the Candelabra
• Che: Part Two
• Confessions of a Dangerous Mind
• Courage Under Fire
• Deadpool 2
• Drive-Away Dolls
• Finding Forrester
• Geronimo: An American Legend
• Gerry
• Glory Daze
• Green Zone
• Hereafter
• IF
• Influenced
• Jay and Silent Bob Reboot
• Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back
• Margaret
• Mystic Pizza— Screen debut, 1988: a single line about lobster.
• No Sudden Move
• Ponyo
• Promised Land
• School Ties
• Spirit: Stallion of the Cimarron
• Stuck on You
• Suburbicon
• Syriana
• The Brothers Grimm
• The Good Shepherd
• The Informant!
• The Majestic
• The Monuments Men
• The Rainmaker
• The Third Wheel
• The Zero Theorem
• Thor: Love and Thunder
• Titan A.E.
• Unsane
• Youth Without Youth

Uncommon — only a minority of players land here.

• Chasing Amy
• Contagion
• Dogma
• Downsizing
• Elysium
• EuroTrip— One scene and one unreasonably catchy fake punk song.
• Invictus
• Jason Bourne
• Jersey Girl
• Ocean's Thirteen
• Ocean's Twelve
• Rounders
• Stillwater
• The Adjustment Bureau
• The Great Wall
• The Instigators
• The Last Duel
• The Legend of Bagger Vance
• The Rip
• The Talented Mr. Ripley
• Thor: Ragnarok
• True Grit
• We Bought a Zoo

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

• Air
• Ford v Ferrari
• Ocean's Eleven
• Oppenheimer
• Saving Private Ryan
• The Bourne Identity
• The Bourne Supremacy
• The Bourne Ultimatum
• The Departed

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

• Interstellar— His casting was kept secret so Dr. Mann's betrayal would land.

The most common answer on the board.

• Good Will Hunting
• The Martian
• The Odyssey

The rarest possible answer — almost no player finds it.

• Ghân-buri-Ghân— His secret forest road gets Rohan to the battle on time.

Genuinely obscure. Most players never think of it.

• Adar
• Alfrid
• Anárion
• Arathorn
• Arondir
• Barliman Butterbur
• Beregond
• Beren
• Bifur
• Bofur
• Bolg
• Bombur
• Brego
• Celeborn
• Celebrimbor
• Círdan
• Dain Ironfoot
• Déagol
• Disa
• Dori
• Durin
• Dwalin
• Eärendil
• Elbereth
• Elendil
• Elladan
• Elrohir
• Farmer Maggot
• Fatty Bolger
• Fatty Lumpkin
• Gamling
• Gil-galad
• Gildor
• Gloin
• Goldberry
• Gorbag
• Gothmog
• Great Goblin
• Grishnakh
• Gwaihir
• Halbarad
• Halbrand
• Haldir
• Háma
• Hamfast Gamgee
• Helm Hammerhand
• Héra
• Imrahil
• Ioreth
• Lobelia Sackville-Baggins
• Lotho Sackville-Baggins
• Lúthien
• Master of Lake-town
• Morgoth
• Mouth of Sauron
• Nori
• Oin
• Old Man Willow
• Ori
• Quickbeam
• Shagrat
• Talion
• Théodred
• Thrain
• Thror
• Ugluk
• Ungoliant
• Watcher in the Water

Uncommon — only a minority of players land here.

• Azog
• Balin
• Bard
• Beorn
• Denethor
• Éomer
• Éowyn
• Faramir
• Fíli
• Isildur
• Kíli
• Lurtz
• Radagast
• Rosie Cotton
• Shadowfax
• Shelob
• Tauriel
• Théoden
• Thranduil
• Treebeard
• Wormtongue

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

• Arwen
• Balrog
• Bilbo
• Boromir
• Elrond
• Galadriel
• Gimli
• Merry
• Nazgûl
• Pippin
• Sam
• Saruman
• Sauron
• Smaug
• Thorin Oakenshield
• Witch-king of Angmar

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

• Bill the Pony— Turned loose at Moria and walked all the way back to Bree.
• Glorfindel— Frodo's rescuer at the ford before the film recast Arwen.
• Tom Bombadil— Cut from all three films, and the Ring cannot tempt him.

The most common answer on the board.

• Aragorn
• Frodo
• Gandalf
• Gollum
• Legolas

The rarest possible answer — almost no player finds it.

• Archangel Michael— His name is Hebrew for 'who is like God?'

Genuinely obscure. Most players never think of it.

• Michael Afton
• Michael Andretti
• Michael Ball
• Michael Ballack
• Michael Bisping
• Michael Bluth
• Michael Buffer— Trademarked 'Let's get ready to rumble' and earned millions licensing it.
• Michael Burry
• Michael C. Hall
• Michael Carrick
• Michael Chandler
• Michael Chang— Youngest men's Grand Slam singles champion, French Open 1989.
• Michael Chiklis
• Michael Cimino
• Michael Clarke
• Michael Cohen
• Michael Collins— One name, two legends: the Apollo pilot and the Irish revolutionary.
• Michael Connelly
• Michael Crawford
• Michael D. Higgins
• Michael De Santa
• Michael Dorn
• Michael Dukakis
• Michael Ealy
• Michael Eisner
• Michael Emerson
• Michael Essien
• Michael Flynn
• Michael Foot
• Michael Gove
• Michael Heseltine
• Michael Holding
• Michael Hutchence
• Michael Imperioli
• Michael Ironside
• Michael Jai White
• Michael Knight
• Michael Laudrup
• Michael Learned— Three Emmys as Olivia Walton, first name genuinely Michael.
• Michael Lewis
• Michael Madsen
• Michael Mann
• Michael McIntyre
• Michael Morpurgo
• Michael Nesmith
• Michael Oher
• Michael Olise
• Michael Palin
• Michael Parkinson
• Michael Peña
• Michael Penix Jr.
• Michael Pollan
• Michael Porter Jr.
• Michael Portillo
• Michael Rapaport
• Michael Richards
• Michael Rooker
• Michael Rosen
• Michael Scofield
• Michael Shannon
• Michael Spinks
• Michael Stipe
• Michael Thomas
• Michael van Gerwen
• Michael Vaughan
• Michael W. Smith
• Michael Waltrip
• Michael Weatherly
• Michael York
• Mike Ditka
• Mike Ehrmantraut
• Mike Epps
• Mike Huckabee
• Mike Judge
• Mike Krzyzewski
• Mike Love
• Mike Piazza
• Mike Pompeo
• Mike Rowe
• Mike Shinoda
• Mikhail Baryshnikov— Same Mikhail ruling as Gorbachev, applied to ballet.
• Mikhail Gorbachev— Russian form of Michael; last leader of the Soviet Union.

Uncommon — only a minority of players land here.

• Michael Cera
• Michael Che
• Michael Clarke Duncan
• Michael Corleone
• Michael Crichton
• Michael Dell
• Michael Faraday
• Michael Fassbender
• Michael Flatley
• Michael Gambon— Played Dumbledore in six Harry Potter films starting in 2004.
• Michael Irvin
• Michael Johnson
• Michael Kors
• Michael Landon
• Michael McDonald
• Michael Owen— Won the 2001 Ballon d'Or while playing for Liverpool.
• Michael Schumacher
• Michael Sheen
• Michael Strahan
• Mick Jagger— Legally Michael Philip Jagger since 1943.
• Mike Pence
• Mike Trout
• Mike Wazowski

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

• George Michael— Surname ruling; he was born Georgios Panayiotou.
• Michael B. Jordan
• Michael Bay
• Michael Bloomberg
• Michael Bolton
• Michael Bublé
• Michael Caine
• Michael Douglas
• Michael J. Fox
• Michael Keaton— Born Michael Douglas; the actors' guild already had one.
• Michael Moore
• Michael Vick
• Mike Myers

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

• Michael Myers— Halloween's masked slasher, stalking Haddonfield on-screen since 1978.
• Michael Scott— Fictional regional manager of Dunder Mifflin on The Office.
• Michelangelo— Full name translates, literally, to Michael Angel.

The most common answer on the board.

• Michael Jackson
• Michael Jordan
• Michael Phelps
• Mike Tyson— Michael Gerard Tyson on the birth certificate.

The rarest possible answer — almost no player finds it.

• Banca francesa— A three-dice relic surviving mostly in Portuguese casinos.

Genuinely obscure. Most players never think of it.

• Andar bahar
• Aviator
• Baccarat banque
• Blackjack switch
• Boule
• Casino hold'em
• Chemin de fer— Bond's baccarat of choice until Casino Royale switched to poker.
• Chuck-a-luck
• Crash
• Crazy 4 poker
• Crazy Time
• Crown and Anchor
• Dragon tiger
• Fan-tan
• Faro— Wyatt Earp dealt it for a living in Tombstone.
• Five card draw
• Four card poker
• High card flush
• Let it ride
• Mississippi stud
• Plinko
• Pontoon
• Punto banco
• Razz
• Red dog
• Spanish 21
• Teen patti
• Trente et quarante
• Two-up— Australia's coin-tossing game, legal in casinos and, once a year, everywhere.
• War

Uncommon — only a minority of players land here.

• Bingo
• Caribbean stud
• Keno
• Mahjong
• Omaha
• Pai gow poker
• Seven card stud
• Sic bo
• Three card poker
• Ultimate Texas hold'em
• Video poker
• Wheel of Fortune

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

• Baccarat
• Craps
• Texas hold'em

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

• Pachinko— Japan's parlor game, legally not gambling thanks to a prize loophole.

The most common answer on the board.

• Blackjack
• Poker
• Roulette
• Slots

The rarest possible answer — almost no player finds it.

• Skeltonic verse— Invented by Henry VIII's tutor; critics called it doggerel to his face.

Genuinely obscure. Most players never think of it.

• Abecedarian
• Ars poetica
• Aubade— A dawn poem, the morning-after answer to the serenade.
• Ballade
• Cento
• Chant royal
• Clerihew
• Decima
• Diamante
• Dirge
• Doha
• Eclogue
• Ekphrastic
• Epistolary poem
• Epithalamium
• Etheree
• Fib
• Found poem
• Golden shovel
• Haibun
• Idyll
• Kenning poem
• Kyrielle
• List poem
• Mock epic
• Monorhyme
• Nonet
• Nonsense verse
• Ottava rima
• Palindrome poem
• Pantoum
• Persona poem
• Psalm
• Renga
• Rhyme royal
• Riddle poem
• Rondeau
• Rondel
• Rubaiyat
• Sapphic
• Senryu
• Sijo
• Spenserian stanza
• Terza rima
• Triolet

Uncommon — only a minority of players land here.

• Blackout poetry
• Blank verse
• Cinquain
• Concrete poem
• Couplet
• Doggerel
• Dramatic monologue
• Epigram
• Epitaph
• Ghazal
• Hymn
• Light verse
• Pastoral poem
• Prose poem
• Quatrain
• Tanka

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

• Acrostic
• Ballad
• Elegy
• Epic
• Free verse
• Lyric poem
• Narrative poem
• Nursery rhyme
• Ode
• Slam poetry
• Spoken word

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

• Sestina— Thirty-nine lines cycling the same six end-words.
• Villanelle— Nineteen lines, two refrains, and 'Do not go gentle' forever.

The most common answer on the board.

• Haiku
• Limerick
• Sonnet