A perfect Krillion dive is 700 points: seven answers at 100 each, 7,000 metres of ocean. Almost nobody gets there — the 100-point One in a Krillion answers are hand-picked gems, chosen not just for rarity but for how satisfying they are to land on. But the shape of a great answer is learnable, and the math behind the chase is simple enough to hold in your head.
What real 100-point answers look like
These are genuine One in a Krillion picks recorded from recent Daily Dives:
- A9.com — Amazon's 2004 search engine, which gave toolbar users a pi-over-two percent discount. (Oct 13, 2026)
- Amazon Auctions — launched in 1999 to fight eBay, folded into zShops within two years. (Oct 13, 2026)
- Bakeapple — Newfoundlanders' name for the cloudberry, picked on bogs each August. (Oct 13, 2026)
- Furious driving — still charged under an 1861 law written for horse-drawn carriages. (Oct 13, 2026)
- Running out of fuel on the Autobahn — German law treats an empty tank as an avoidable, finable stop. (Oct 13, 2026)
- Monaco — its highest ground is a slope of Mont Agel, a Maritime Alp. (Oct 13, 2026)
- Welsh wig — a knitted woollen cap, not a wig, worn by Victorian sailors. (Oct 12, 2026)
- America's Job Bank — the US Labor Department's free national job board, shut down in 2007. (Oct 12, 2026)
- Aristotle's lantern and Love dart — animal body parts humans don't have. (Oct 12, 2026)
- Ink and paint — the animation-studio department hiding inside "name a company department". (Oct 12, 2026)
The pattern: they're all correct, all specific, and most have a story attached. None of them is the second answer everyone thinks of — they're the tenth.
The tier math
| Tier | Points | × 7 prompts | Depth | | --- | --- | --- | --- | | One in a Krillion | 100 | 700 (perfect) | 7,000 m | | Deep Cut | 85 | 595 | 5,950 m | | Rare | 60 | 420 | 4,200 m | | Schooler | 30 | 210 | 2,100 m | | Too Clever | 15 | 105 | 1,050 m | | Plankton | 10 | 70 | 700 m |
Two consequences worth internalizing:
- Aim for 85, not 100. Seven Deep Cuts are 595 of 700 — a spectacular dive — and Deep Cuts are findable on purpose, unlike the hand-picked gems.
- Zeros are devastating. A prompt left blank scores 0, which costs more than two full tier upgrades. An unglamorous Plankton answer always beats a timeout.
Expected value, honestly
There's no published distribution of player scores, so nobody can tell you a verified "average" dive. What you can compute is your own break-even point. Reaching for a Deep Cut-tier answer scores 85 when it lands and 0 when it doesn't; a safe Schooler is a guaranteed 30. The risky play wins if your hit rate is above 30 ÷ 85 ≈ 35%. Your personal hit rate is a number only your own history can answer — which is exactly what practicing on past dives is for.
A high-score checklist
- Check the accepted-answer count first: short lists reward the forgotten member, long lists reward any specific one.
- Skip your first three ideas — that's where the crowd lives.
- Prefer the species over the animal, the dish over the ingredient, the full name over the surname.
- Beware the Too Clever trap: if the answer made you feel smart because you heard it as a fun fact, a few thousand other people heard the same fact.
- Try the ambitious answer first; keep a safe one typed and ready for the final seconds.
- Never leave a prompt empty. Ten points beats zero, every time.