Krillion Answers for August 9, 2026

The rarest possible answer — almost no player finds it.

• Adamstown— Capital of the Pitcairn Islands, home to descendants of the Bounty mutineers and one of the least populated capitals on Earth.

Genuinely obscure. Most players never think of it.

• Apia— Samoa's capital, deep in the South Pacific.
• Brazzaville
• Bujumbura
• Dili— East Timor's capital, just south of the line.
• Dodoma— Tanzania's official capital, roughly six degrees south.
• Funafuti
• Gitega
• Honiara
• Lilongwe
• Maseru
• Mbabane
• Moroni
• Nuku'alofa
• Port Louis
• Port Moresby
• Port Vila
• Sucre— Bolivia's constitutional capital, the one even quizmasters forget.
• Suva— Fiji's capital, out in the South Pacific.
• Victoria— Seychelles' capital, a shade south of the equator.

Uncommon — only a minority of players land here.

• Antananarivo
• Asuncion
• Bloemfontein
• Gaborone
• Harare
• Kigali— Rwanda's capital, about two degrees south of the line.
• Kinshasa
• La Paz— Bolivia's seat of government, high in the Andes and well south.
• Luanda
• Lusaka
• Maputo
• Montevideo
• Windhoek

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

• Brasilia
• Cape Town
• Lima
• Pretoria
• Santiago
• Wellington— New Zealand's capital, not Auckland.

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

• Jakarta— About six degrees south. The map-nerd flex, and yes it's south.
• Nairobi— Sits just over a degree south of the equator. The 'gotcha, it's actually south' pick.
• Quito— Named for the equator, sitting 13 arcminutes south of it. Technically counts and everyone knows it.

The most common answer on the board.

• Buenos Aires
• Canberra— Australia's capital, and firmly in the southern hemisphere.

The rarest possible answer — almost no player finds it.

• Pygmy blue-tongue— An Australian skink declared extinct for 33 years until one turned up in the stomach of a dead snake in 1992. Back from the grave.

Genuinely obscure. Most players never think of it.

• Armadillo lizard— Curls into a spiky ball by biting its own tail.
• Caiman lizard
• Day gecko
• Draco— It glides between trees on wing-like flaps of skin.
• Glass lizard— A legless lizard often mistaken for a snake.
• Jackson's chameleon
• Lace monitor
• Mexican beaded lizard
• Nile monitor
• Perentie— Australia's largest lizard, a monitor over two meters long.
• Sand lizard
• Satanic leaf-tailed gecko
• Slow worm— A legless lizard, not a worm and not a snake.
• Sungazer
• Uromastyx
• Wall lizard

Uncommon — only a minority of players land here.

• Agama
• Alligator lizard
• Blue-tongued skink
• Chuckwalla
• Collared lizard
• Fence lizard
• Frilled lizard
• Horned lizard
• House gecko
• Jesus lizard— Another name for the basilisk that sprints across water.
• Marine iguana— The only lizard that forages in the sea, a Galapagos special.
• Panther chameleon
• Tegu
• Thorny devil
• Tokay gecko
• Veiled chameleon
• Water dragon
• Water monitor
• Whiptail

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

• Anole
• Bearded dragon
• Monitor lizard
• Skink

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

• Basilisk— The 'Jesus lizard' that runs on water. Every nature-doc fan deploys it.
• Gila monster— The venomous one from every desert survival show. The school knew you'd reach for it.

The most common answer on the board.

• Chameleon
• Gecko
• Iguana
• Komodo dragon

The rarest possible answer — almost no player finds it.

• Spudnut— A doughnut made from potato flour, once a nationwide American chain in the mid-1900s. Fluffier than the wheat kind, and nearly forgotten.

Genuinely obscure. Most players never think of it.

• Bombolone
• Canele
• Croquembouche— A towering cone of cream puffs bound in spun caramel.
• Financier
• Gulab jamun— An Indian fried milk-dough ball soaked in rose syrup, a doughnut by any fair reading.
• Kolache
• Kouign-amann— A butter-and-sugar-caramelized Breton pastry. The pastry-snob deep cut.
• Loukoumades
• Malasada
• Paczki
• Rugelach
• Sfogliatella
• Sopapilla
• Sufganiyah— The jelly doughnut eaten at Hanukkah.

Uncommon — only a minority of players land here.

• Beavertail
• Berliner— The German jam doughnut. Yes, Kennedy technically called himself one.
• Galette
• Long john
• Macaron
• Macaroon
• Maple bar
• Napoleon
• Pain au chocolat
• Palmier
• Pastel de nata
• Phyllo pastry
• Profiterole
• Shortcrust pastry
• Zeppole

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

• Apple pie
• Baklava
• Bear claw
• Boston cream
• Brioche
• Cake doughnut
• Cannoli
• Churro
• Cinnamon roll
• Cream puff
• Cruller
• Eclair
• Empanada
• Fritter
• Hot cross bun
• Old fashioned
• Puff pastry
• Scone
• Sticky bun
• Strudel
• Tart
• Turnover

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

• Beignet— The New Orleans flex. Powdered sugar and a knowing smile.
• Cronut— The croissant-doughnut hybrid that broke the internet in 2013. Predictably chosen.

The most common answer on the board.

• Croissant
• Danish
• Doughnut
• Glazed doughnut
• Jelly doughnut

The rarest possible answer — almost no player finds it.

• Christopher Cross— His 1981 self-titled debut swept Album, Record, Song, and Best New Artist all at once, the first act ever to take all four top Grammys in a single night.

Genuinely obscure. Most players never think of it.

• A Man and His Music
• Babel— Mumford and Sons, 2013.
• Back on the Block
• Blood, Sweat & Tears
• By the Time I Get to Phoenix
• Come Dance with Me!
• Fulfillingness' First Finale
• Genius Loves Company
• Getz/Gilberto— Stan Getz and Joao Gilberto, 1965. The bossa nova one.
• Judy at Carnegie Hall
• Morning Phase— Beck, 2015, the one Kanye stormed the stage over.
• Nick of Time
• River: The Joni Letters
• September of My Years
• Still Crazy After All These Years— Paul Simon, 1976.
• The Button-Down Mind of Bob Newhart
• The Concert for Bangladesh
• The First Family
• The Music from Peter Gunn— Henry Mancini, 1959. The very first Album of the Year.
• Two Against Nature

Uncommon — only a minority of players land here.

• 24K Magic— Bruno Mars, 2018.
• 52nd Street
• Bridge over Troubled Water— Simon and Garfunkel, 1971.
• Come Away with Me— Norah Jones, 2003.
• Double Fantasy
• Falling into You
• Fearless— Taylor Swift, 2010.
• Golden Hour— Kacey Musgraves, 2019.
• Graceland— Paul Simon, 1987.
• How to Dismantle an Atomic Bomb
• Innervisions
• Jagged Little Pill— Alanis Morissette, 1996.
• MTV Unplugged
• O Brother, Where Art Thou?— The soundtrack, 2002.
• Raising Sand
• Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band— The Beatles, 1968. The one that actually won.
• Songs in the Key of Life— Stevie Wonder, 1977.
• Speakerboxxx/The Love Below— OutKast, 2004.
• Supernatural— Santana, 2000.
• Taking the Long Way
• The Barbra Streisand Album
• The Bodyguard— Whitney Houston soundtrack, 1994.
• Time Out of Mind
• Toto IV
• Unforgettable... with Love
• We Are

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

• 1989— Taylor Swift, 2016.
• 25— Adele again, 2017.
• Can't Slow Down
• Cowboy Carter— Beyonce, 2025, finally.
• DeBÍ TiRAR MáS FOToS
• Faith
• Folklore— Taylor Swift, 2021.
• Harry's House
• Midnights— Taylor Swift, 2024, her record fourth.
• No Jacket Required
• Random Access Memories— Daft Punk, 2014.
• Rumours— Fleetwood Mac, 1978.
• Saturday Night Fever
• Tapestry
• The Joshua Tree— U2, 1988.
• The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill
• Unplugged
• When We All Fall Asleep, Where Do We Go?

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

• The Suburbs— The indie-kid Album of the Year answer. You remembered the Arcade Fire upset; the Grammys remember it too.

The most common answer on the board.

• 21— Adele, 2012.
• Thriller— Michael Jackson, 1984. The plankton pick with 66 million reasons.

The rarest possible answer — almost no player finds it.

• Relaxin— It loosens the pelvic ligaments before childbirth, and it is the reason your joints feel looser in pregnancy. The hormone almost nobody names.

Genuinely obscure. Most players never think of it.

• Adiponectin
• Adrenocorticotropic hormone
• Angiotensin II
• Atrial natriuretic peptide
• Calcitonin
• Cholecystokinin
• Corticotropin-releasing hormone
• DHEA
• DHT
• Erythropoietin— The one dopers inject to boost red blood cells.
• Follicle-stimulating hormone
• Gastrin
• GIP
• Gonadotropin-releasing hormone
• IGF-1
• Inhibin
• Luteinizing hormone
• Melanocyte-stimulating hormone
• Parathyroid hormone
• Renin
• Secretin— The first hormone ever discovered, in 1902.
• Somatostatin
• Thyroid-stimulating hormone
• Thyrotropin-releasing hormone
• Triiodothyronine

Uncommon — only a minority of players land here.

• Aldosterone
• Ghrelin— The hunger hormone.
• GLP-1— The gut hormone the Ozempic-era drugs imitate.
• Glucagon
• Histamine
• Human chorionic gonadotropin
• Leptin— The satiety hormone, ghrelin's rival.
• Norepinephrine
• Prolactin
• Thyroxine
• Vasopressin

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

• Cortisol— The stress hormone every wellness podcast blames.
• Endorphins
• Growth hormone
• Melatonin
• Progesterone
• Serotonin

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

• Dopamine— 'It's a dopamine hit.' The pop-neuroscience flex, right on schedule. It's a neurotransmitter too, but yes, a hormone.
• Oxytocin— The 'love hormone' from every TED talk. Predictably chosen.

The most common answer on the board.

• Adrenaline
• Estrogen
• Insulin
• Testosterone

The rarest possible answer — almost no player finds it.

• Ice stock sport— Bavarian curling with a stick, demonstrated in 1936 and again in 1964.
• Skijoring— A 1928 demonstration event in which skiers were towed across the snow by galloping horses. Gloriously discontinued.

Genuinely obscure. Most players never think of it.

• Bandy— Only ever a demonstration sport, in 1952.
• Combined
• Military patrol— The 1924 forerunner of the biathlon, contested only once for medals.
• Ski ballet— A demonstration sport in 1988 and 1992. Exactly as wonderful as it sounds.
• Sled dog racing— Demonstrated at Lake Placid 1932, with real mushers and real dog teams.
• Speed skiing— A 1992 demonstration event where a competitor died in training.
• Team figure skating
• Winter pentathlon— A one-off 1948 St. Moritz demo: cross-country, shooting, downhill, fencing, and horse riding.

Uncommon — only a minority of players land here.

• Big air
• Halfpipe
• Ice dance
• Mass start
• Nordic combined
• Pair skating
• Parallel giant slalom
• Ski cross
• Ski mountaineering
• Slalom
• Slopestyle
• Snowboard cross
• Super-G
• Team pursuit

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

• Bobsled
• Cross-country skiing
• Downhill— Alpine skiing's marquee event, and the fastest way down the mountain without a sled.
• Freestyle skiing
• Luge
• Ski jumping
• Speed skating

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

• Biathlon— Skiing plus rifle shooting. The 'weirdest combo in sports' flex, right on cue.
• Curling— 'The one with the brooms.' Everyone rediscovers it every four years.
• Skeleton— Headfirst down the ice at 80 miles an hour. The 'craziest Olympic sport' pick, deployed on schedule.

The most common answer on the board.

• Figure skating
• Ice hockey
• Skiing
• Snowboarding

The rarest possible answer — almost no player finds it.

• Dear You— A roughly $2 million Teochew-language family drama, built from three years of interviews with more than 120 elders and performed largely by nonprofessionals, reached $290 million on word of mouth.
• Scare Out— Zhang Yimou's mole-hunt thriller was the first Chinese movie publicly backed by the country's secretive state-security ministry — and it finished just $371,064 above the line.

Genuinely obscure. Most players never think of it.

• Blades of the Guardians— Yuen Woo-ping turned the Biao Ren manhua into a $215 million martial-arts epic.
• Dhurandhar: The Revenge— India’s biggest movie of 2026 blew past $200 million worldwide, with a record-breaking North American run.
• Kung Fu Soccer— Stephen Chow returned to directing after seven years and turned a Shaolin Soccer spin-off into a $279 million Chinese summer hit.

Uncommon — only a minority of players land here.

• Backrooms— An internet creepypasta became a $395 million theatrical hit. The fluorescent lights won.
• Disclosure Day— Steven Spielberg's original science-fiction return made the cutoff with $241 million.
• GOAT— Sony’s animated sports comedy cleared the $200 million bar with less than a million to spare.
• Obsession— $475 million worldwide put the thriller among a year otherwise ruled by sequels, adaptations and famous IP.
• Scary Movie— The franchise came back after thirteen years and laughed its way past $231 million.
• Scream 7— The seventh Scream became the franchise's first movie to cross $200 million worldwide.

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

• Hoppers— Pixar's animal-body-swap comedy hopped to just under $390 million.
• Minions & Monsters— The little yellow immortals found another $455 million lying around.
• Moana— The live-action remake crossed the line at $266 million, well short of the animated sequel but comfortably inside this set.
• Project Hail Mary— A lone astronaut, a very good alien and $684 million worldwide for a non-franchise science-fiction movie.
• Star Wars: The Mandalorian and Grogu— The first Star Wars theatrical release since 2019 cleared $345 million.
• The Devil Wears Prada 2— Miranda Priestly returned twenty years later and the sequel more than doubled the original's worldwide gross.
• Wuthering Heights— Emily Brontë's moors blew up into a $242 million theatrical romance.

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

• Pegasus 3— The worldwide-chart-reader's flex: a Chinese racing comedy with $656 million worldwide and barely $1 million of that from North America.

The most common answer on the board.

• Michael— The Michael Jackson biopic became the year's third billion-dollar release.
• Spider-Man: Brand New Day— The year's biggest movie by the cutoff: $1.26 billion worldwide after only eight days in theaters.
• The Odyssey— Nolan, Homer and nearly a billion dollars in three weeks. Not a bad voyage home.
• The Super Mario Galaxy Movie— Mario's second animated movie made the franchise a two-billion-dollar series.
• Toy Story 5— Woody and Buzz crossed a billion dollars again. The toys outlast every attempt at retirement.