Krillion Answers for July 23, 2026

The rarest possible answer — almost no player finds it.

• Bosnia and Herzegovina— One town, Neum, gives Bosnia about 20 km of Adriatic coast. The sea nobody remembers it has.

Genuinely obscure. Most players never think of it.

• Montenegro
• Palestine
• Slovenia— Forty-seven kilometres of Adriatic that everyone forgets exists.
• Syria

Uncommon — only a minority of players land here.

• Albania
• Algeria
• Cyprus
• Lebanon
• Libya
• Malta
• Tunisia

A solid, middling pick shared with plenty of other players.

• Croatia
• Egypt
• Israel
• Morocco
• Turkey

An overthought pick that scores below the middle of the board.

• Monaco— The yacht-and-casino flex. Two kilometres of coast, one predictable pick.

The most common answer on the board.

• France
• Greece
• Italy
• Spain

The rarest possible answer — almost no player finds it.

• Spade-toothed whale— The rarest whale on Earth. Its first near-complete specimen was only dissected in 2024.

Genuinely obscure. Most players never think of it.

• Andrews' beaked whale
• Arnoux's beaked whale
• Baird's beaked whale
• Blainville's beaked whale
• Dwarf sperm whale
• False killer whale
• Gervais' beaked whale
• Gray's beaked whale
• Hector's beaked whale
• Longman's beaked whale
• Melon-headed whale
• Omura's whale
• Pygmy killer whale
• Pygmy right whale
• Shepherd's beaked whale
• Southern bottlenose whale
• Sowerby's beaked whale
• Stejneger's beaked whale
• Strap-toothed whale
• True's beaked whale

Uncommon — only a minority of players land here.

• Antarctic minke whale
• Bryde's whale
• Cuvier's beaked whale— Holds the record for the deepest, longest dive of any mammal.
• Northern bottlenose whale
• Pygmy sperm whale
• Sei whale

A solid, middling pick shared with plenty of other players.

• Beluga
• Bowhead whale
• Fin whale
• Gray whale
• Minke whale
• Pilot whale
• Right whale

An overthought pick that scores below the middle of the board.

• Narwhal— The unicorn of the sea. The whole school reached for it too.

The most common answer on the board.

• Blue whale— The biggest animal ever. The first thing everyone blurts.
• Humpback whale
• Orca— Technically the ocean's largest dolphin. Emotionally, always a whale.
• Sperm whale

The rarest possible answer — almost no player finds it.

• Miracle fruit— One berry rewires your tongue so lemons taste like candy for an hour.

Genuinely obscure. Most players never think of it.

• Acerola
• Ackee
• Bilimbi
• Black sapote
• Cacao
• Calamansi
• Camu camu
• Canistel
• Chempedak
• Cupuacu
• Feijoa
• Jabuticaba— Grows straight out of the tree's trunk. Nature showing off.
• Kiwano
• Langsat
• Loquat
• Lulo
• Mamey sapote
• Mamoncillo
• Marang
• Noni
• Salak
• Santol
• Star apple
• Surinam cherry
• Tamarillo
• Ugli fruit
• Wax apple

Uncommon — only a minority of players land here.

• Acai
• Breadfruit
• Cherimoya
• Date
• Longan
• Mangosteen— Nicknamed the 'queen of fruits' across Southeast Asia.
• Pomelo
• Rambutan
• Sapodilla
• Soursop
• Sugar apple
• Tamarind

A solid, middling pick shared with plenty of other players.

• Avocado
• Dragon fruit
• Guava
• Jackfruit
• Kiwi— Technically subtropical. The fruit bowl does not care.
• Lychee
• Papaya
• Passion fruit
• Plantain
• Star fruit

An overthought pick that scores below the middle of the board.

• Durian— 'The world's smelliest fruit!' Yes. The whole class saw that documentary too.

The most common answer on the board.

• Banana
• Coconut
• Mango
• Pineapple

The rarest possible answer — almost no player finds it.

• Black Knight Ghost— The disguise of a museum caretaker running an art-forgery scheme, and the very first monster the gang ever unmasked, back in 1969.

Genuinely obscure. Most players never think of it.

• Angel Dynamite
• Bogel
• Deputy Dusty
• Flim-Flam
• Googie
• Hot Dog Water— Mystery Incorporated's rival sleuth, nicknamed for the smell of her tie-dye brew.
• Mr. E
• Professor Pericles
• Ricky Owens
• Scooby-Dee
• Scooby-Doo's mother
• Sheriff Bronson Stone
• Vincent Van Ghoul— The 13 Ghosts warlock voiced by Vincent Price himself.
• Weerd
• Yabba-Doo

Uncommon — only a minority of players land here.

• Red Herring— A Pup Named Scooby-Doo's running gag: Fred blamed him for everything.
• Scooby-Dum
• The Hex Girls

An overthought pick that scores below the middle of the board.

• Scrappy-Doo— Puppy Power! The one everyone name-drops to prove they know the deep lore. The whole gang typed it too.

The most common answer on the board.

• Daphne
• Fred
• Scooby-Doo
• Shaggy
• Velma

The rarest possible answer — almost no player finds it.

• Morning Glory cloud— A 1,000-km rolling tube that appears over Burketown, Australia. Glider pilots fly across the world to surf it.

Genuinely obscure. Most players never think of it.

• Asperitas
• Banner cloud
• Castellanus
• Cavum
• Cirrus uncinus
• Kelvin-Helmholtz
• Nacreous
• Noctilucent
• Pyrocumulus
• Undulatus
• Wall cloud

Uncommon — only a minority of players land here.

• Anvil cloud
• Contrail
• Cumulus congestus
• Fog— A cloud that couldn't be bothered to get off the ground. Valid.
• Fractus
• Funnel cloud
• Nimbus— The generic rain cloud your grade-school teacher accepted. So will we.
• Pileus
• Roll cloud
• Shelf cloud
• Virga

A solid, middling pick shared with plenty of other players.

• Altocumulus
• Altostratus
• Cirrocumulus
• Cirrostratus
• Cumulonimbus
• Nimbostratus
• Stratocumulus

An overthought pick that scores below the middle of the board.

• Lenticular— 'It looks like a flying saucer!' Every hiker's cleverest post.
• Mammatus— Those bubbly pouches. The whole class saved the same photo to feel like weather nerds.

The most common answer on the board.

• Cirrus
• Cumulus— The fluffy cartoon cloud. First one everybody draws.
• Stratus

The rarest possible answer — almost no player finds it.

• Tarantella— A frenzied folk dance once believed to sweat out the venom of a tarantula bite.

Genuinely obscure. Most players never think of it.

• Bharatanatyam
• Bolero
• Boogaloo
• Boogie-woogie
• Burlesque
• Butoh
• Contra dance
• Csardas
• Cueca
• Dabke
• Dancehall
• Fandango
• Forro
• Garba
• Haka
• Highland dance
• Hopak
• Hora
• House dance
• Kathak
• Kathakali
• Kizomba
• Kolo
• Kuchipudi
• Lambada
• Manipuri
• Mazurka
• Mexican hat dance
• Milonga
• Mohiniyattam
• Morris dance
• Odissi
• Polonaise
• Robot
• Sardana
• Shag
• Shuffle
• Sirtaki
• Sufi whirling
• Tinikling— Dancers hop between clashing bamboo poles. The Philippine national dance.
• Tutting
• Waacking
• West Coast Swing
• Zouk

Uncommon — only a minority of players land here.

• Bachata
• Bhangra
• Bollywood
• Can-can
• Charleston
• Clogging
• Cumbia
• Hula
• Hustle
• Irish step dance
• Jitterbug
• Jive
• Krumping
• Locking
• Mambo
• Merengue
• Paso doble
• Pole dance
• Polka
• Popping
• Quickstep
• Reggaeton
• Twerking
• Two-step
• Zumba— Technically cardio. Spiritually a dance party. Legally admissible here.

A solid, middling pick shared with plenty of other players.

• Ballroom
• Belly dance
• Breakdancing
• Cha-cha
• Contemporary
• Disco
• Flamenco
• Foxtrot
• Jazz
• Line dancing
• Rumba
• Samba
• Square dance
• Swing
• Tango
• Waltz

An overthought pick that scores below the middle of the board.

• Lindy hop— The swing-revival deep cut everyone name-drops to sound like they've been to a social.
• Voguing— Strike a pose. The ballroom-scene flex the whole school has queued up.

The most common answer on the board.

• Ballet
• Hip hop
• Salsa
• Tap

The rarest possible answer — almost no player finds it.

• Silbannacus— A phantom emperor attested by just two coins. Historians still aren't sure when, or if, he ruled.

Genuinely obscure. Most players never think of it.

• Aemilianus
• Alexios I Komnenos
• Anastasius I
• Anthemius
• Arcadius
• Avitus
• Balbinus
• Basil II
• Carausius
• Carinus
• Carus
• Claudius Gothicus
• Constans
• Constantine II
• Constantine XI— The last Roman emperor, who died defending Constantinople's walls in 1453.
• Constantius Chlorus
• Constantius II
• Decius
• Didius Julianus— Bought the throne at auction. It did not go well.
• Domitian II— An emperor known almost entirely from two coins found centuries apart.
• Florianus
• Galba
• Galerius
• Gallienus
• Geta
• Glycerius
• Gordian I
• Gordian II
• Gordian III
• Gratian
• Heraclius
• Honorius
• Irene— Ruled as emperor, in her own name. Charlemagne's PR team seized the opening.
• Jovian
• Julius Nepos
• Justin I
• Justinian II— Deposed and his nose slit. Came back a decade later and ruled again with a golden replacement.
• Leo I
• Licinius
• Lucius Verus
• Macrinus
• Majorian
• Marcian
• Maurice
• Maxentius
• Maximinus Daza
• Numerian
• Olybrius
• Otho
• Pertinax
• Petronius Maximus
• Phocas
• Probus
• Pupienus
• Quintillus
• Severus Alexander
• Severus II
• Tacitus
• Theodosius II
• Trebonianus Gallus
• Valentinian I
• Valentinian II
• Valentinian III
• Vitellius
• Zeno

Uncommon — only a minority of players land here.

• Antoninus Pius
• Aurelian
• Caracalla
• Domitian
• Julian
• Justinian I
• Maximian
• Maximinus Thrax
• Nerva
• Philip the Arab
• Romulus Augustulus— A teenager who was the last emperor of the Western Roman Empire.
• Septimius Severus
• Theodosius I
• Valens
• Valerian

A solid, middling pick shared with plenty of other players.

• Claudius
• Diocletian
• Hadrian
• Marcus Aurelius
• Tiberius
• Titus
• Trajan
• Vespasian

An overthought pick that scores below the middle of the board.

• Commodus— 'The Gladiator guy.' The school knew you'd reach for the movie villain.
• Elagabalus— The internet's favorite scandalous emperor. Predictably popular.

The most common answer on the board.

• Augustus
• Caligula
• Constantine the Great
• Nero