How to play the Krillion we host
The Krillion on DleBox asks for one name that fits a prompt. A prompt might be a country in South America, a prime under 50, or a bone. Many names can be accepted. The points depend on how uncommon your name is on our list, not on how fast you typed it.
Press Start. The clock is 25 seconds. Type the name and press Send. If the name is on the list, the line under the box shows the canonical spelling, the rarity, and the points. If it is not on the list, the line says it was not accepted and the clock keeps going. You can send another name until the time runs out. At zero, that prompt scores nothing and you move on.
The daily run is seven prompts. Everyone who plays the daily on this date gets those same seven, in that order, until midnight in New York. Unlimited is a different page and a longer run. Practice is a third set and does not replace the daily. Theme packs, geography, NBA, Pokémon, and soccer, use their own lists.
Matching ignores case and accents. An ampersand is read as the word and. A leading the, a, or an is dropped. C++ and C# keep their symbols. An alias works only when we stored it, so Brasil counts for Brazil and a nickname we never wrote does not.
This is not the game on krillion.io. Their prompts, their accepted names, and their themed packs are theirs. The button on the directory page opens that site and is labeled as the official site. Nothing you score here is posted to their leaderboard, because we do not have one.
From here you can play the daily seven. The Krillion directory page is the longer guide to the original game and to ours.
When you want the round itself, open the play page and press Start. The answers page is for after you have tried, or for when you are checking a rarity rather than fishing for the first name. Hints are a separate ladder: a category, then a first letter, then one example. You do not have to open them.
A phone is enough. The box is one line, the buttons are in reach of a thumb, and nothing asks you to install a file or make an account. If the name you trust keeps failing, the rejection page explains samples versus closed lists. Stay on the play page when you still want to try. Leave for the answer table only when you want the names we actually store.
The first accepted name locks that prompt. If Earth scores, you cannot replace it with a rarer planet on the same line. An empty send says to type one name and does not start the clock. A miss clears the box, starts the clock if it was still idle, and leaves the typed string on the miss panel until the next keystroke. At zero the prompt is worth nothing. The bar stays full after a hit and empty after a timeout.
The share text is the site name, the New York date, the point total, and one letter per prompt: C, U, R, or O for the four bands, and a dot when the prompt scored nothing. Play another round deals a private mix. That mix is not the published answer key, and two people who press the button do not share it. Next game stays on DleBox.