Krillion Answers for August 20, 2026

The rarest possible answer — almost no player finds it.

• National speed limit applies— Britain's white circle with a slash never states its number.
• Runaway truck ramp— Deep gravel beds built for trucks whose brakes have failed.

Genuinely obscure. Most players never think of it.

• Added lane
• Blind driveway
• Chains required
• Crossbuck— That white X at every rail crossing has an official name.
• Crossroads
• Deaf child area
• Dip— One word on the sign, and it means the road.
• Do not block intersection
• Emergency vehicles ahead
• Gas food lodging
• Headlights on
• High water
• Hospital
• Hurricane evacuation route
• Left turn only
• Loose gravel
• Minimum speed
• Narrow bridge
• No honking
• No littering
• No passing zone— America's only pennant-shaped sign, and it hangs sideways.
• Pass with care
• Picnic area
• Priority road
• Red light camera
• Reduced speed ahead
• Right turn only
• Rough road
• Route shield
• Scenic overlook
• Share the road
• Slower traffic keep right
• Soft shoulder
• Speed limit enforced by aircraft— Planes really did clock speeders between painted highway lines.
• Stop ahead
• T-intersection
• Tractor crossing
• Truck route
• Tunnel ahead
• Watch for motorcycles
• Weigh station

Uncommon — only a minority of players land here.

• Bike lane
• Bridge may be icy
• Bus lane
• Divided highway
• Falling rocks
• Fire lane
• HOV lane
• Lane ends
• Loading zone
• Low clearance
• Mile marker
• No outlet
• No stopping
• No trucks
• No turn on red
• Rest area
• Road closed
• Roundabout
• Signal ahead
• Steep grade
• Street name sign
• Toll
• Tow away zone
• Two-way traffic
• Weight limit
• Winding road
• Zebra crossing— The British crosswalk, of Abbey Road fame. Pelican and puffin crossings ride along under this one.

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

• Children at play
• Dead end
• Deer crossing— Moose, elk, cattle, and ducks all shelter under this one.
• Detour
• Do not enter
• Exit
• Handicap parking
• Keep right
• Merge
• No left turn
• No parking
• No right turn
• No U-turn
• Pedestrian crossing
• Railroad crossing
• Road work ahead
• School zone
• Slippery when wet— Bon Jovi borrowed it; the sign came first.
• Slow
• Speed bump
• Wrong way

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

• Traffic light— A signal rather than a sign, but we hung it anyway.

The most common answer on the board.

• One way
• Speed limit
• Stop
• Yield

The rarest possible answer — almost no player finds it.

• Honey mushroom— An Oregon colony spanning three square miles may be Earth's largest organism.
• Huitlacoche— Corn smut to farmers, a delicacy priced above corn in Mexico.

Genuinely obscure. Most players never think of it.

• Beefsteak fungus
• Black trumpet
• Blewit
• Bolete
• Caesar's mushroom
• Cauliflower mushroom
• Chaga
• Destroying angel
• Dryad's saddle
• Fairy ring mushroom
• False morel
• Field mushroom
• Hedgehog mushroom
• Jack-o'-lantern mushroom
• Liberty cap
• Lobster mushroom
• Matsutake
• Milk cap
• Nameko
• Parasol mushroom
• Pioppino
• Russula
• Shaggy mane
• Shimeji
• Slippery jack
• Snow fungus
• St. George's mushroom
• Stinkhorn
• Straw mushroom
• Turkey tail
• Wine cap
• Wood ear

Uncommon — only a minority of players land here.

• Chanterelle
• Chicken of the woods
• Cordyceps— It turns ants into zombies that spread its spores.
• Death cap— Australia's beef wellington murder trial made it world news.
• Enoki
• King oyster
• Lion's mane
• Maitake
• Morel
• Porcini
• Puffball
• Reishi

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

• Cremini
• Oyster mushroom
• Psilocybin mushroom— It counts, and no, we do not know a guy.
• Shiitake
• Truffle— Technically a buried fungus, but the specialty aisle wins this ruling.

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

• Fly agaric— Mario's power-up and the mushroom emoji, in one red cap.

The most common answer on the board.

• Button mushroom
• Portobello

The rarest possible answer — almost no player finds it.

• Sauce nantua— Crayfish butter and cream, the classic test of a saucier.

Genuinely obscure. Most players never think of it.

• Adobo sauce
• Alabama white sauce
• Amatriciana
• Avgolemono
• Beurre blanc
• Big Mac sauce
• Bordelaise
• Butterscotch sauce
• Cane's sauce
• Chasseur
• Chermoula
• Comeback sauce
• Coney sauce
• Coulis
• Crème anglaise
• Cumberland sauce
• Diane sauce
• Donair sauce
• Eel sauce
• Espagnole
• Fry sauce
• Hard sauce
• Huancaina
• Kecap manis
• Marie Rose sauce
• Mignonette
• Mornay
• Mumbo sauce
• Nam prik
• Nuoc cham
• Okonomiyaki sauce
• Puttanesca
• Ravigote
• Red-eye gravy
• Romesco
• Rouille
• Sambal
• Sauce gribiche
• Sauce Robert
• Skhug
• Skordalia
• Tkemali
• Tonkatsu sauce
• XO sauce

Uncommon — only a minority of players land here.

• Aioli
• Arrabbiata
• Au jus
• Béarnaise
• Béchamel
• Black bean sauce
• Caramel sauce
• Carbonara
• Chick-fil-A sauce
• Chili crisp
• Chili sauce
• Chimichurri
• Chutney
• Curry sauce
• Demi-glace
• Duck sauce
• Enchilada sauce
• Fish sauce
• Garlic sauce
• Gochujang
• Harissa
• Hoisin
• Honey garlic sauce
• Horseradish sauce
• Hot fudge
• Jerk sauce
• Mole
• Mushroom sauce
• Oyster sauce
• Peanut sauce
• Peppercorn sauce
• Piri piri sauce
• Plum sauce
• Ponzu
• Remoulade
• Sweet chili sauce
• Tahini
• Tikka masala
• Tzatziki
• Velouté
• Vodka sauce
• Yum yum sauce

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

• Alfredo
• Applesauce— Sauce is in the name, and we are not arguing.
• Bolognese
• Buffalo sauce
• Cheese sauce
• Chocolate sauce
• Cocktail sauce
• Cranberry sauce
• Gravy
• Honey mustard
• Hot sauce
• Marinara
• Pesto
• Ranch
• Salsa
• Steak sauce
• Sweet and sour sauce
• Tabasco
• Tartar sauce
• Teriyaki
• Thousand island
• Worcestershire

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

• Hollandaise— Famous mostly as the thing eggs Benedict cannot survive without.
• Sriracha— Named for the Thai town of Si Racha, rooster optional.

The most common answer on the board.

• BBQ sauce
• Ketchup
• Mayonnaise
• Mustard
• Soy sauce

The rarest possible answer — almost no player finds it.

• Gulf of Khambhat— Its funnel shape drives some of Earth's fastest tidal bores.

Genuinely obscure. Most players never think of it.

• Acapulco Bay
• Algoa Bay
• All Saints Bay
• Banderas Bay
• Bantry Bay
• Barnegat Bay
• Bay of Campeche
• Bay of Gibraltar
• Bay of Islands
• Bay of Kotor
• Bay of Plenty
• Bay of Whales
• Bodega Bay
• Bohai Gulf
• Bristol Bay
• Buzzards Bay
• Cam Ranh Bay
• Cardigan Bay
• Casco Bay
• Colwyn Bay
• Coos Bay
• Corpus Christi Bay
• Davao Gulf
• Dingle Bay
• Discovery Bay
• Donegal Bay
• Dublin Bay
• English Bay
• False Bay
• Frobisher Bay
• Golden Bay
• Guanabara Bay
• Gulf of Aqaba
• Gulf of Bothnia
• Gulf of Cadiz
• Gulf of Carpentaria
• Gulf of Corinth
• Gulf of Fonseca
• Gulf of Gabes
• Gulf of Gdansk
• Gulf of Genoa
• Gulf of Guayaquil
• Gulf of Honduras
• Gulf of Izmir
• Gulf of Kutch
• Gulf of Lion
• Gulf of Mannar
• Gulf of Nicoya
• Gulf of Odesa
• Gulf of Panama
• Gulf of Papua
• Gulf of Paria
• Gulf of Riga
• Gulf of Salerno
• Gulf of Sidra
• Gulf of Taranto
• Gulf of Tehuantepec
• Gulf of Trieste
• Gulf of Tunis
• Gulf of Venezuela
• Gulf of Venice
• Gulf St Vincent
• Half Moon Bay
• Hanauma Bay
• Hangzhou Bay
• Hauraki Gulf
• Hawke's Bay
• Herne Bay
• Hervey Bay
• Humboldt Bay
• Jamaica Bay
• James Bay
• Jervis Bay
• Kealakekua Bay
• Lingayen Gulf
• Lyme Bay
• Matagorda Bay
• Maya Bay
• Morecambe Bay
• Moreton Bay
• Morro Bay
• Mount's Bay
• Osaka Bay
• Palk Bay
• Penobscot Bay
• Pensacola Bay
• Phang Nga Bay
• Port Phillip Bay
• Poverty Bay
• Prudhoe Bay
• Raritan Bay
• Resurrection Bay
• Robin Hood's Bay
• Saginaw Bay
• Samana Bay
• San Pablo Bay
• Sandusky Bay
• Santa Monica Bay
• Sarasota Bay
• Saronic Gulf
• Shark Bay
• Sligo Bay
• Spencer Gulf
• St Ives Bay
• Subic Bay
• Swansea Bay
• Table Bay
• Ungava Bay
• Waimea Bay
• Walvis Bay
• Whitley Bay
• Wineglass Bay

Uncommon — only a minority of players land here.

• Baffin Bay
• Bay of Biscay
• Bay of Naples
• Biscayne Bay
• Botany Bay
• Byron Bay
• Cape Cod Bay
• Delaware Bay
• Galveston Bay
• Galway Bay
• Georgian Bay
• Glacier Bay
• Gulf of Aden
• Gulf of Alaska
• Gulf of California
• Gulf of Finland
• Gulf of Guinea
• Gulf of Maine
• Gulf of Oman
• Gulf of Saint Lawrence
• Gulf of Suez
• Gulf of Thailand
• Gulf of Tonkin
• Ha Long Bay
• Leyte Gulf
• Manila Bay
• Massachusetts Bay
• Mobile Bay
• Montego Bay
• Monterey Bay
• Narragansett Bay
• San Diego Bay
• Thunder Bay
• Tokyo Bay

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

• Bay of Bengal
• Chesapeake Bay
• Green Bay— A genuine arm of Lake Michigan, Packers included.
• Guantanamo Bay
• Persian Gulf
• Tampa Bay

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

• Bay of Fundy— Tides swing more than fifty feet, the world's highest range.
• Bay of Pigs— JFK's Cuban invasion collapsed there in under three days.

The most common answer on the board.

• Gulf of Mexico
• Hudson Bay
• San Francisco Bay

The rarest possible answer — almost no player finds it.

• Osmotic energy— Norway's prototype plant ran on river water meeting salt water.

Genuinely obscure. Most players never think of it.

• Activation energy
• Gibbs free energy
• Internal energy
• Ionization energy
• Magnetic energy
• Nuclear binding energy
• Ocean thermal energy
• Piezoelectric energy
• Rest energy
• Rotational energy
• Solar thermal energy
• Steam energy
• Surface energy
• Vibrational energy

Uncommon — only a minority of players land here.

• Biomass energy
• Dark energy
• Elastic potential energy
• Electromagnetic energy
• Geothermal energy
• Gravitational potential energy
• Hydrogen energy
• Light energy
• Mechanical energy
• Nuclear fission
• Nuclear fusion
• Sound energy
• Tidal energy
• Wave energy

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

• Chemical energy
• Electrical energy
• Fossil fuels
• Hydroelectric energy
• Kinetic energy
• Nuclear energy
• Potential energy
• Renewable energy
• Thermal energy

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

• Zero-point energy— Infinite free power, available only in video games and pitch decks.

The most common answer on the board.

• Solar energy
• Wind energy

The rarest possible answer — almost no player finds it.

• Swindon Town— Conceded a hundred goals in 1993-94 and went straight back down.

Genuinely obscure. Most players never think of it.

• Barnsley
• Blackpool
• Bolton Wanderers
• Bradford City
• Cardiff City
• Charlton Athletic
• Derby County
• Huddersfield Town
• Oldham Athletic
• Portsmouth
• Queens Park Rangers
• Swansea City
• Wigan Athletic

Uncommon — only a minority of players land here.

• Birmingham City
• Bournemouth
• Brentford
• Burnley
• Coventry City— Back in the top flight in 2026 after 25 years away.
• Hull City
• Ipswich Town
• Luton Town
• Middlesbrough
• Norwich City
• Reading
• Sheffield United
• Sheffield Wednesday
• Stoke City
• Sunderland
• Watford

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

• Aston Villa
• Brighton & Hove Albion
• Crystal Palace
• Everton
• Fulham
• Leeds United
• Leicester City
• Newcastle United
• Nottingham Forest
• Southampton
• Tottenham Hotspur
• West Bromwich Albion
• West Ham United
• Wolverhampton Wanderers

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

• Blackburn Rovers— Their 1995 title was bankrolled by local steel money.
• Wimbledon— Beat Liverpool in the 1988 FA Cup final as the Crazy Gang.

The most common answer on the board.

• Arsenal
• Chelsea
• Liverpool
• Manchester City
• Manchester United

The rarest possible answer — almost no player finds it.

• Diplomatic pouch— Sealed under the Vienna Convention, it can legally be a shipping container.
• Reticule— Direct ancestor of every handbag, born when dresses went slim.

Genuinely obscure. Most players never think of it.

• Baguette bag
• Birkin bag
• Bota bag
• Bowling bag
• Bucket bag
• Bug-out bag
• Burn bag
• Camera bag
• Carpetbag— Cheap luggage that named a whole era of American politics.
• Chalk bag
• Colostomy bag
• Dilly bag
• Doctor's bag
• Dry bag
• Evidence bag
• Feed bag
• Gig bag
• Goon bag— Australia's boxed-wine bladder, hung proudly from clotheslines at parties.
• Hobo bag
• Hockey bag
• Hydration pack
• IV bag
• Kelly bag
• Mail bag
• Man bag
• Milk bag— Ontario sells most of its milk in floppy plastic bags.
• Minaudiere
• Money bag
• Piping bag
• Portmanteau— A hinged travel bag before it ever meant a blended word.
• Possibles bag
• Sabretache
• Sack
• Saddlebag
• Sporran— Kilts have no pockets, so Scots wear this pouch in front.
• String bag
• Tackle bag
• Tool bag
• Trick-or-treat bag
• Vacuum bag
• Weekender bag

Uncommon — only a minority of players land here.

• Airbag
• Barf bag
• Beach bag
• Bean bag
• Body bag
• Clutch
• Cooler bag
• Crossbody bag
• Diaper bag
• Doggy bag
• Drawstring bag
• Garment bag
• Gift bag
• Golf bag
• Laptop bag
• Laundry bag
• Lunch bag
• Makeup bag
• Messenger bag
• Punching bag
• Sandbag
• Satchel
• Shoulder bag
• Tea bag

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

• Briefcase
• Duffel bag
• Grocery bag
• Sleeping bag
• Suitcase
• Tote bag
• Trash bag
• Ziploc bag

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

• Bindle— Cartoon hobos kept it alive long after anyone carried one.
• Fanny pack— Ironic in 2015, sincere now, predictable throughout.

The most common answer on the board.

• Backpack
• Purse