Krillion Geography, a places trivia dive

Krillion Geography is the places pack of the daily trivia dive. Seven prompts drawn from countries, cities, water, terrain, and the names maps use — the same shared list for everyone on the run. You type one answer per prompt, and the game grades how deep it went.

The scoring logic is the whole game in miniature: the place name printed on a classroom poster scores almost nothing, while the true, defensible place fewer players name sinks you toward the trench. Geography is the friendliest category for this, because the map has more names than any of us will ever type — depth is always one Zoom level away.

Each prompt arrives with a preview, then a 25-second window. Decide the kind of place it wants — a country, a city, a river, a desert, a border — and generate one candidate that fits exactly. Type the ordinary English name; if the bank does not recognize it, try a common alternative while the clock runs. Only the answer standing when time expires is scored.

Accepted answers reveal their tier and points: Plankton 10, Too Clever 15, Schooler 30, Rare 60, Deep Cut 85, One in a Krillion 100. The dive report at the end shows the rarity chart for your seven answers.

Capitals, megacities, and famous landmarks are the most-rehearsed names on the map, so the game prices them accordingly. A prompt that asks for a city in a country is not waiting for the capital unless the capital is genuinely the only thing that fits — it is waiting for the second city, the port, the university town, the place you changed trains once.

The descent is mechanical. From a country, drop to a region; from a region, to a city; from the famous city, to the one next to it that shares its airport. From a mountain, drop to its range; from the famous river, to its longest tributary. Every step down is a step fewer players take, and the map guarantees the answer exists.

The richest ground is one administrative level below the famous name: states and provinces nobody quizzes, islands that belong to better-known countries, lakes with four spellings and one airport. Landmarks work the same way — the ruin next to the famous ruin, the viewpoint locals actually climb.

Two cautions keep the depth honest. First, the Too Clever tier: the second-most-famous place in a country is often the most-typed clever answer in the game, and it scores like plankton. Second, fit: a rarer place still has to satisfy the exact prompt — a lake is not a river, and a district is not a city. The bank rewards true and specific, never approximate.

Type the ordinary English name, spelled the way an atlas prints it. Local-language names, long official forms, and diacritics are not required — the ordinary form is what the game reads. If a place is known by two names, a rejection is your signal: keep the clock, try the other common name.

The same rule protects you from cleverness. Transliterations you invented, nicknames from travel forums, and joke spellings are not how the bank reads an answer. The game pays for real places, named the way most atlases would print them — just places fewer players thought of.

The mixed daily dive takes seven prompts from every category; the geography pack stays on the map and goes deep. Same 25-second clock, same tiers, same shared list — the specialist version of the game you already play.

For more volume, Krillion Unlimited runs have no daily cap: up to 50 prompts per run with three lives, drawn from the same growing bank. And when you want a different theme, the sports, movies, and lexicon packs are one click away.