What does the clown emoji mean in Krillion?

🤡 means Too Clever: the “obscure” pick that isn’t actually that obscure. It scores 15 points, only 5 more than Plankton.

What does the lantern emoji mean in Krillion?

🏮 means Deep Cut, worth 85 points: a genuinely obscure answer. It’s also the most common tier on the answer sheets.

What does the black square mean in Krillion?

⬛ is a miss: no accepted answer for that prompt, so it scores 0 points.

What does the shrimp emoji mean in a Krillion share?

🦐 appears after the dive number at the top of every shared Krillion result. It isn’t a tier and doesn’t score anything.

Guide

Krillion emoji meanings

How to read a shared dive.

Last revised October 4, 2026

When you share a Krillion result, the game writes one emoji per prompt, in order. Each emoji is the tier that answer landed in, from 🫧 Plankton at the surface to 🌟 One in a Krillion on the trench floor. A ⬛ means the prompt scored nothing.

Every Krillion emoji

Emoji	Tier	Points	Depth	In the game’s words
🌟	One in a Krillion	+100	1,000 m	The designated gem. Trench floor.
🏮	Deep Cut	+85	850 m	True obscurity. Few go this deep.
🦑	Rare	+60	600 m	Genuinely uncommon. Nice pull.
🐟	Schooler	+30	300 m	Solid — swims with the school.
🤡	Too Clever	+15	150 m	A famously “obscure” pick. Everyone reaches for it.
🫧	Plankton	+10	100 m	The answer everyone blurts out.
⬛	Miss	0	0 m	No accepted answer for that prompt.

How to read a shared Krillion result

A shared dive has three parts: the dive number, the total score, and the row of emoji.

Krillion #81 🦐
345

🦑🏮🐟🫧🌟🦑⬛

Prompt 1: 🦑 Rare, 60 points
Prompt 2: 🏮 Deep Cut, 85 points
Prompt 3: 🐟 Schooler, 30 points
Prompt 4: 🫧 Plankton, 10 points
Prompt 5: 🌟 One in a Krillion, 100 points
Prompt 6: 🦑 Rare, 60 points
Prompt 7: ⬛ Miss, 0 points

That adds up to 345 points, a dive of 3,450 m, which Krillion grades “Rare. Below the thermocline. Nice.” See every verdict →

Shares from Unlimited mode start with “Krillion ∞” instead, and some shares end with a link to krillion.io. The emoji row works the same way.

The Krillion emoji people ask about

🤡 Clown: Too Clever

The clown is Too Clever, worth 15 points. Krillion’s FAQ calls it “the go-to ‘obscure’ pick that isn’t actually that obscure”: the answer you reach for when you’re trying to be clever, which is exactly why so many others reach for it too. It’s also the rarest label on the published sheets, with 5 in our archive of 392,359 answers. Every Too Clever answer so far.

🏮 Lantern: Deep Cut

The lantern is Deep Cut, worth 85 points. It’s by far the most common tier on the sheets: 90% of every answer we’ve archived. Landing one is a strong result on any prompt.

🌟 Star: One in a Krillion

The star is the gem, worth the full 100 points. Most prompts have one gem and some have two. Every gem so far.

🦑 Squid, 🐟 fish and 🫧 bubbles

🦑 is Rare (60 points), 🐟 is Schooler (30) and 🫧 is Plankton (10), the answer most people say first.

⬛ Black square: a miss

A black square means that prompt scored nothing: there was no accepted answer for it.

🦐 Shrimp: the Krillion signature

The shrimp after the dive number appears on every shared result. It isn’t a tier and doesn’t score anything.

Want to see what your own guesses would score? Every daily dive on Krillion.wiki has a guess box on each prompt.

Questions

What does the clown emoji mean in Krillion?: 🤡 means Too Clever: the “obscure” pick that isn’t actually that obscure. It scores 15 points, only 5 more than Plankton.
What does the lantern emoji mean in Krillion?: 🏮 means Deep Cut, worth 85 points: a genuinely obscure answer. It’s also the most common tier on the answer sheets.
What does the black square mean in Krillion?: ⬛ is a miss: no accepted answer for that prompt, so it scores 0 points.
What does the shrimp emoji mean in a Krillion share?: 🦐 appears after the dive number at the top of every shared Krillion result. It isn’t a tier and doesn’t score anything.