Krillion Sports, a sports trivia dive

Krillion Sports is the sports pack of the daily trivia dive. You get seven prompts drawn from athletes, teams, competitions, rules, and the smaller corners of sport — and everyone playing the pack on that run works from the same list. Type one answer that fits each prompt, and the game grades how deep it went.

The scoring idea is the one the whole game runs on. The name a stadium would shout scores a little; the true answer fewer players share sinks you a lot. A prompt that asks for a tennis player is not really asking for the one on the cereal box. It is asking whether you can reach for someone the crowd forgot — and still be right.

Each prompt gives you a short preview and a 25-second answer window. There is no multiple choice and no list to tap: you type, the game checks its bank, and accepted answers sink you toward the trench.

Every round follows the same loop. Read the preview, decide what kind of answer the prompt wants — a person, a team, a venue, a term — and then beat the clock. Rejected guesses cost nothing while the 25 seconds run, so you can throw the famous name out first and refine toward something rarer. Only the answer standing when time expires gets scored.

Once an answer is accepted, you see its rarity tier and points: Plankton 10, Too Clever 15, Schooler 30, Rare 60, Deep Cut 85, and One in a Krillion 100. In the pack, seven prompts make a dive, and the daily mixed game uses the same timer and tiers if you want to compare the two.

Sport is a memory sport: the same handful of names gets rehearsed until they are the only ones a room can reach. That is exactly why they pay worst. A prompt about basketball is not waiting for the greatest-of-all-time debate; it is waiting for a role player from a specific era, a coach from a smaller league, or a rule that changed the game.

The reliable descent is to get more specific, not more obscure for its own sake. From "a footballer" drop to a position, then to a league, then to a season or a squad. From "an Olympic event" drop to a discipline, then to the person who won it once and never made a poster. Every level you descend, fewer players follow you down — and the answer still has to be true.

Beware the famous obscure pick. The second-most-famous player in a sport is often the most-typed "clever" answer in the game, and the Too Clever tier exists precisely for it. If your pick is a trivia-night chestnut, it scores like the obvious one.

The clock changes how you should think. With unlimited time you would wander; with 25 seconds you need a route. Spend the first moments deciding the kind of answer, the middle stretch generating a defensible candidate, and the final stretch typing it in ordinary spelling.

A rejected guess is information, not damage. If the star name bounces, you still have seconds to come back with the role player. Passing or timing out with nothing scores zero — so a modest, true answer that keeps the dive moving is worth more than a deep gamble you cannot land.

Prompts and answers live in a curated bank that grows between daily sets. Rarity reflects how commonly an answer is shared among players: the reflex answer is plankton, the defensible deep pick is the gem. Every tier answer still has to fit the exact prompt — a rarer wrong answer scores nothing.

The bank is finite, so prompts can return across runs and between the pack and the daily game. That is a feature: repetition is how you learn which corner of sport you always forget.

The mixed daily dive serves seven prompts from every category at once; the sports pack goes deep on one theme. If the daily game is the decathlon, this is the specialist meet — the same track, the same clock, and the same tiers, with every question pointed at the part of trivia you claim to know best.

Want more than one run? The daily dive is capped at one shared set, but Krillion Unlimited has no daily cap: endless runs of up to 50 prompts with three lives, drawn from the same bank. Many players warm up here and take their streak to the daily board.