Krillion Hints Today

October 13, 2026 · Daily Dive #90. Hints stay gentle: start with the theme, reveal a direction only if you need it, and open the full answer as a last resort.

Step 1 · Theme: Name an Amazon product, service or company Amazon owns

Step 2 · Direction

There are 1,113 accepted answers, and only 24 of them are common enough to score 30 or less. Almost anything unusual that fits will go deep.

Step 3 · Direction

One of the 100-point answers is a single word, 5 letters.

Step 4 · Direction (final hint)

That answer starts with A and ends with M.

Full answer (100-point spoiler)

A9.com — One in a Krillion, 100 pts · Amazon's 2004 search engine gave toolbar users a pi-over-two percent discount.

Amazon Auctions — One in a Krillion, 100 pts · Launched in 1999 to fight eBay, folded into zShops within two years.

Step 1 · Theme: Name a fruit or vegetable that starts with B

Step 2 · Direction

There are 2,620 accepted answers, and only 15 of them are common enough to score 30 or less. Almost anything unusual that fits will go deep.

Step 3 · Direction

One of the 100-point answers is a single word, 9 letters.

Step 4 · Direction (final hint)

That answer starts with B and ends with E.

Full answer (100-point spoiler)

Bakeapple — One in a Krillion, 100 pts · Newfoundlanders' name for the cloudberry, picked on bogs each August.

Step 1 · Theme: Name a driving or traffic offence

Step 2 · Direction

There are 240 accepted answers, and only 36 of them are common enough to score 30 or less. Almost anything unusual that fits will go deep.

Step 3 · Direction

One of the 100-point answers is 2 words, 14 letters in all.

Step 4 · Direction (final hint)

That answer starts with F and ends with G.

Full answer (100-point spoiler)

Furious driving — One in a Krillion, 100 pts · Still charged under an 1861 law written for horse-drawn carriages.

Running out of fuel on the Autobahn — One in a Krillion, 100 pts · German law treats an empty tank as an avoidable, finable Autobahn stop.

Step 1 · Theme: Name a fictional character played by more than one actor in live-action movies

Step 2 · Direction

There are 2,611 accepted answers, and only 49 of them are common enough to score 30 or less. Almost anything unusual that fits will go deep.

Step 3 · Direction

One of the 100-point answers is 2 words, 12 letters in all.

Step 4 · Direction (final hint)

That answer starts with L and ends with N.

Full answer (100-point spoiler)

Lewis Dodgson — One in a Krillion, 100 pts · Cameron Thor's Barbasol-can briber returned in Dominion as Campbell Scott.

Step 1 · Theme: Name a country that has part of the Alps, the Andes or the Himalayas

Step 2 · Direction

There are 21 accepted answers, and only 10 of them are common enough to score 30 or less. Almost anything unusual that fits will go deep.

Step 3 · Direction

One of the 100-point answers is a single word, 6 letters.

Step 4 · Direction (final hint)

That answer starts with M and ends with O.

Full answer (100-point spoiler)

Monaco — One in a Krillion, 100 pts · Its highest ground is a slope of Mont Agel, a Maritime Alp.

Step 1 · Theme: Name a city in Asia with over 1 million people within city limits

Step 2 · Direction

There are 544 accepted answers, and only 28 of them are common enough to score 30 or less. Almost anything unusual that fits will go deep.

Step 3 · Direction

One of the 100-point answers is a single word, 7 letters.

Step 4 · Direction (final hint)

That answer starts with D and ends with G.

Full answer (100-point spoiler)

Dandong — One in a Krillion, 100 pts · Its Broken Bridge stops halfway across the river toward North Korea.

Step 1 · Theme: Name a shampoo brand

Step 2 · Direction

There are 1,656 accepted answers. Almost anything unusual that fits will go deep.

Step 3 · Direction

One of the 100-point answers is 3 words, 9 letters in all.

Step 4 · Direction (final hint)

That answer starts with B.

Full answer (100-point spoiler)

Body on Tap — One in a Krillion, 100 pts · Bristol-Myers' 1970s shampoo was made with one-third real beer.

Lemon Up — One in a Krillion, 100 pts · Its 1970s bottle wore a plastic lemon for a cap.

How to use hints without ruining the dive

Krillion gives you 25 seconds per prompt, so a hint is most useful before you start the clock at krillion.io. Read the theme, try to name two or three candidates on your own, and only then open a direction hint. The direction narrows the field — an answer count, a word length, a first letter — without handing you the entry. The full-answer step exists for after your dive, when you want to see which 100-point picks you missed.

Ready for the real thing? See today's full answers or learn the rules and scoring.

Frequently asked questions

How do Krillion hints work on this page?

Each prompt reveals in three steps you control: the theme (the prompt text itself), a direction hint recorded for that prompt, and finally the full 100-point answer. Nothing opens by itself.

Do hints spoil the game?

Only if you open them. Steps 1 and 2 stay vague enough to preserve the aha-moment; step 3 is the full spoiler, hidden behind its own toggle.

When do today’s hints refresh?

At the daily reset: midnight US Eastern, which is 04:00 UTC during daylight saving time and 05:00 UTC otherwise. New hints appear here shortly after.

Is this the official Krillion game?

No. Krillion Hint is an unofficial fan companion. Play the real Daily Dive at krillion.io; these hints come from the recorded daily reveal.