How to Play Krillion Infinite

Krillion Infinite gives you seven prompts a day and 25 seconds on each one. Everyone playing that day gets the same seven. The scoring runs backwards from most quiz games: the answer that arrives first is worth almost nothing, and the further your answer sits from what everyone else typed, the deeper you sink.

You do not need an account, an app, or a payment to play Krillion. Open krillion.lol, press BEGIN DIVE, and the clock starts on the first prompt. A dive takes about four minutes.

The one rule that matters

A prompt reads name a cheese. You have a cheese in mind already — everyone does, and that is the problem. Cheddar is worth 10 points. Taleggio is worth 85. Both are correct, both take the same three seconds to type, and one of them is eight and a half times the dive. Every other rule on this page is detail hanging off that.

This is why a first dive so often feels like a failing grade. Seven correct answers can land you at 70 points when the board goes to 700. Nothing was wrong with the answers. They were just the answers everybody else gave.

A round, second by second

1. The prompt appears and the 25-second clock starts immediately. There is no ready check.
2. You type an answer and submit. There is no limit on attempts.
3. A hit ends the round, shows the tier you landed in, and sinks the diver by that much.
4. A miss costs you a slice of the clock and nothing else. The round stays open.
5. If the clock runs out, the round scores zero. It is not scored as a penalty tier — it is simply not scored.

Because a miss costs time rather than the round, guessing is correct play. A word you are only half sure is a real cheese is worth typing; the downside is a second or two, and the upside is 85 points.

Giving up

You can concede a round, but not for the first 15 seconds. An instant concede would be a skip button, and a skip button turns a dive into a quiz you can rush through. You have to actually run out of ideas first.

What counts as a correct answer

Answers are matched loosely, on purpose. A missing accent, a doubled letter, a stray plural, British against American spelling — all of these still land. You are being scored on what you thought of, not on whether you can spell it under a clock.

What will not land is an answer nobody put in the bank. Each prompt carries a hand-built list, most of them well past 150 entries deep, and if your answer is genuinely valid but missing, the game logs the rejection so it can be added. That is the single most useful thing you can send to contact.

How a round is scored

Every answer in a prompt's bank is filed by how widely known it is, and that filing is what pays you. Using the real name a cheese bank, which holds 169 accepted answers:

Only four of those 169 cheeses are Plankton. Step off that handful and you are paid properly straight away — the shallow end is a cliff, not a slope. The scoring page has the full arithmetic, including how the bands are cut and why Too Clever pays less than an honest guess.

Depth, not a mark out of 700

Each point sinks you four metres, so the dive is reported in metres. Seven perfect answers would be 700 points and 2,800 m of water, which is the trench floor. Nobody reaches it. That is not what it is for — it is the ceiling that keeps a genuinely excellent dive from looking finished.

One dive a day

The set changes at 00:00 UTC and there is one dive per day per browser. Refreshing does not cost you the day; your progress is kept on your own device, so you can close the tab mid-round and pick it up. Clearing site data does erase it, permanently, because there is no server-side copy.

Sharing a dive

The result screen gives you an emoji strip — one square per round, coloured by the tier you hit — plus your depth. It contains no answers, so posting it spoils nothing for anyone who has not dived yet.