What is the Krillion Geography pack?
It is a full Krillion dive with the prompt pool narrowed to one subject. The rules do not change: seven open prompts, one typed answer each, 25 seconds per prompt, and points awarded by the rarity of the answer you give. What changes is the kind of knowledge being tested. A shuffled dive might hand you films, chemistry and football in the same round. The geography pack stays in one register, so the difference between a good dive and a great one is entirely about how well you know places.
That focus is the point. Geography has an unusually long tail of correct answers: every country, capital, river, desert and range is a valid answer to something, and most of them are rarely typed. The pack is built to make that tail reachable.
What you'll be asked
The 9 prompts fall into a handful of shapes. Knowing the shape tells you where the deep answers usually hide:
- Lists with a constraint — landlocked countries, countries on a sea, US states starting with a vowel.
- Capitals and cities — European capitals, where the famous ones are crowded and the small ones are gold.
- Physical features — rivers, deserts and mountain ranges, where regional names beat continental ones.
- Coastlines and islands — island countries and Pacific-facing states, a category with dozens of valid small answers.
| Prompt | Easy answer | Deep answer |
|---|---|---|
| Name a landlocked country | Switzerland · 10 | Vatican City · 100 |
| Name a capital city in Europe | Paris · 10 | Podgorica · 100 |
| Name a desert | Sahara · 10 | Rub' al Khali · 100 |
How a geography dive runs
Seven prompts are dealt from the geography pool. Each one takes a single typed answer. The answer is normalised — case, accents and punctuation do not matter — and matched against the accepted list and its aliases. A match earns the points attached to that answer's tier; a miss earns nothing and the results screen marks it. After the seventh prompt, your points become depth at ten metres per point.
Because the pool is smaller than the full bank, the same prompt will come back in later dives. That is useful: a geography prompt you missed once becomes a prompt you can prepare for. The pack is a practice room disguised as a game.
Why the famous place scores least
A capital-city prompt is not really a memory test. Paris is not hard to remember; it is hard to avoid saying. The famous answer arrives before the prompt is finished, which is exactly why it scores 10. Every other player is having the same arrival at the same moment. The rarity tier is a measure of crowding, not of correctness.
This is also why the pack feels different from a pub quiz. A quiz asks whether you know the capital of Montenegro; the pack asks whether you can reach Podgorica before you reach Paris. The second question is harder, and it is the one that separates players.
One prompt, three places
| Prompt: “Name a landlocked country” | Tier | Points | Depth |
|---|---|---|---|
| Switzerland — correct, and first out of the gate | Plankton | 10 | 100 m |
| Lesotho — correct, and a real step sideways | Rare | 60 | 600 m |
| Vatican City — correct, and almost nobody says it | Deepest | 100 | 1,000 m |
All three are countries and all three are landlocked. The only difference is how far the answer sits from the crowd's first thought.
Finding the rarer place
- Go smaller, not more obscure. Microstates, island nations and small capitals are real places, not trivia curiosities.
- Think regionally. If the prompt allows any river or desert, a regional name beats a continental one every time.
- Use the constraint. “Starts with A” or “borders the Mediterranean” narrows the map. Work the constraint instead of free-associating.
- Keep a shortlist of ten. Most geography prompts reward the same handful of under-said places: Lesotho, Bhutan, Palau, Podgorica, Ljubljana, Vaduz.
Spelling and place names
Place names are where strict matching usually breaks. A player types “Czech Republic”, the bank says “Czechia”; a player types “Swaziland”, the bank says “Eswatini”. The matching layer strips case, accents and punctuation, and each answer carries aliases for the names people actually use. If a valid name still misses, the results screen tells you, and the contact page takes the suggestion.
Accents are safe in either direction: Comté and Comte are the same answer, and so are São Paulo and Sao Paulo. You do not need to hunt for a special character under a twenty-five-second clock.
The pack in the bigger game
Geography is one of six themed packs, alongside movies, sports,music, food andhistory. The main game mixes all eight categories from the bank, which is a better test of range; the pack is a better test of depth in one subject. Use the pack to build a shortlist, then take that shortlist into a mixed dive and see whether it survives the shuffle.
Geography pack: frequently asked questions
Is Krillion Geography free?
Yes. The pack is free, unlimited and needs no account. You can replay it as often as you like; each dive deals seven prompts from the geography bank.
Is this the official Krillion geography pack?
No. This is an independent, fan-made game with its own prompt bank and its own hand-graded answers. It is not affiliated with krillion.io. The official game has its own categories and its own daily format.
How many geography prompts are there?
The geography bank holds 9 prompts and 134 accepted answers at launch. Each prompt covers a different slice of the subject — landlocked states, Mediterranean coastlines, European capitals, deserts, mountain ranges, Asian rivers and Pacific coastlines — so a seven-prompt dive is a broad test rather than the same question twice.
How is a geography answer scored?
Every accepted place sits in one of six rarity tiers worth 10 to 100 points. The tier belongs to the answer, not to your typing speed. Switzerland is a Plankton answer on a landlocked-country prompt; Vatican City is a Deepest answer. The same prompt, the same clock, ten times the depth.
Do I need to spell place names exactly?
No. Matching ignores case, accents, punctuation and common article differences, and each answer carries aliases for the names people actually type. Czechia accepts Czech Republic; Eswatini accepts Swaziland. If a valid spelling still misses, send it in and it will be graded by hand.
Why do capitals and big countries score so low?
Because they are the first answers everyone types. Paris, London and Berlin are correct, but they are also the most rehearsed answers in the category, so they sit at the surface. The deep answers are smaller places that are equally real and far less likely to be typed in 25 seconds.
One more place
Seven prompts, 25 seconds each. The famous answer is a trap; the small one is the score.
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