Krillion Practice Scoring: Six Tiers, Points & Dive Depth

What the six practice tiers mean

Krillion Unlimited uses six editorial familiarity tiers to turn an accepted answer into points and underwater depth. The labels are Plankton (10), Too Clever (15), Schooler (30), Rare (60), Deep Cut (85) and One in a Krillion (100). Each point represents 10 metres in this independent game, so a 30-point answer adds 300 metres and a 100-point answer adds 1,000 metres.

These are editorial judgments about the familiarity of answers in this bank. They are not measured player frequencies, a survey, or an official Krillion score. The tier tells you how the practice game has classified that accepted record; it does not claim that every person would rank the answer in exactly the same place.

One question, three possible results

Consider the bank question Name a character from Home Alone (1990). You can submit one accepted answer for that question. The table compares three possible choices.

The source records for this question include Wikipedia's film page, the AFI catalogue and the studio page.

Because a round advances after an accepted answer, one actual dive cannot submit all three alternatives for the same prompt. To illustrate accumulation across three different questions, a hypothetical 10-point answer plus a 30-point answer plus a 60-point answer equals 100 points, or 1,000 metres. The total reflects the points on accepted answers from separate questions, not a separate judgement about how well you remembered one film. The tier is attached to each answer record, not to the question as a whole.

Correctness comes before depth

Depth is earned only after the checker accepts an answer. A clever-looking response that does not fit the qualifier earns zero, even if it would be a high-value answer in another category. In the Home Alone example, a character from a sequel is related to the franchise but does not satisfy the original-film scope. Likewise, a typo or an unlisted nickname can fail before the tier is considered. Read the answer-checking guide for a closer look at qualifiers, aliases and the finite pool.

This order matters when you review a result. First ask, “Was my answer accepted?” Then ask, “What tier did the bank assign it?” A 10-point accepted answer is a successful match with a modest editorial score. A rejected answer has no tier to interpret, even when your reasoning was understandable. That separation keeps the score from pretending to measure knowledge more precisely than the game can.

Official and independent scores are different contexts

The practice tiers belong to this site's independent question bank and player. Official Krillion questions, answer sets and scoring decisions belong to krillion.io and can use different data, review and terminology. A 60-point Rare answer here is not evidence that the same answer would receive 60 points officially. The reverse is also true: an official result should not be copied into an Unlimited result card.

For official daily material, use the answer archive and its source links. For the independent rules and session controls, see how to play. The distinction is practical when you share a result: name the version and the tier system so readers know what the number describes.

How to interpret your result

Use the total as a snapshot of accepted answers and editorial depth in one prepared dive. A high total can mean you found several uncommon entries; it does not prove broad expertise. A lower total can still include accurate answers, especially when a category's available records cluster in the lower tiers. Review individual rounds rather than treating the total as a ranking of your intelligence.

Look for a useful pattern: are you accepting the first familiar answer, losing points to qualifiers, or finding specialist answers after a retry? Compare the accepted answer, tier label and source. Then start another dive from the homepage if you want to practise retrieval. The result is most useful when it points to a next question to explore, rather than when it is treated as a universal measure of rarity.