How Unlimited Krillion Scoring Works

The two modes

Daily dive — the same eight questions in the same order for everyone that day. Scores go on today's board, which resets at midnight in your own local time.

Unlimited practice — a random eight questions from the pool, as many dives as you want. Scores go on the all-time board. Practice and daily dives draw from the same question set.

During a dive

You get one answer per question. Type it and press Enter, or tap Lock in. The clock gives you 25 seconds and it does not pause, so a dive takes about three and a half minutes from start to report.

Your answer is matched to the question's accepted answer list. Small spelling slips are forgiven: capitals, punctuation, a leading "the" and one letter out of place all still count. An answer that is not on the list scores nothing.

How many points an answer is worth

Each question is worth up to 100 points, for a 800 point maximum over eight questions.

An answer's points are 100 minus the percentage of players who gave the same answer. If 80% of accepted answers on a question are "Venice", Venice is worth 20. If 6% are "Bologna", Bologna is worth 94. The rarer the answer, the deeper the score, and no single answer can ever be worth the full 100 because some players will always agree with you.

The counts come from every dive on that question, all-time, not just today's. Until a question has five accepted answers in total there is not enough data to grade it from players, so the rarity written into our question set is used instead. The dive report always tells you which of the two was used.

Reading the dive report

After the eighth question you get your total out of 800, your best dive so far, your rank on that board and how many players are on it, plus question by question what you answered and what it earned. Your best score is kept in your browser and shown on the start screen before your next dive.

Fair play

Dives are scored by hand on one keyboard, one answer per question, one entry per player per board. Automated play and scripted answers are not welcome, and scores submitted that way are removed. Please do not post answer tables in the Divers' log: the game only works while answers stay personal.