Krillion prompt · October 11, 2026
Name a metal (pure elements only; alloys like steel don't count)
Krillion accepted 95 answers for this prompt in Dive #88. They’re all below, starting at the trench floor with the gems and rising to the Plankton everyone thinks of first.
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Notes on this prompt
- With 95 accepted answers, this prompt is narrower than a typical Krillion prompt (about 476), so there’s less room to go deep.
- 47 answers (49%) are Deep Cuts and 24 are Rare, while 9 sit at Plankton.
Quick picks
The shortest Rare or deeper answers, easy to type before the timer runs out.
Barium +60 Cesium +60 Osmium +60
Also accepted elsewhere
The same answer counted for a different prompt in the archive.
Every accepted answer
One in a Krillion
The gem picked for each prompt. Trench floor.
- Rhenium
Announced in 1925 and named for the Rhine river.
- Technetium
Made in 1937 from cyclotron scrap, the first artificial element.
Deep Cut
Real obscurity. This is where the list gets long.
- Actinium
- Americium
- Berkelium
- Bohrium
- Californium
- Cerium
- Copernicium
- Curium
- Darmstadtium
- Dubnium
- Dysprosium
- Einsteinium
- Erbium
- Europium
- Fermium
- Flerovium
- Francium
- Gadolinium
- Hafnium
- Hassium
- Holmium
- Indium
- Lanthanum
- Lawrencium
- Livermorium
- Lutetium
- Meitnerium
- Mendelevium
- Moscovium
- Neptunium
- Nihonium
- Niobium
- Nobelium
- Praseodymium
- Promethium
- Protactinium
- Roentgenium
- Rubidium
- Ruthenium
- Rutherfordium
- Samarium
- Seaborgium
- Tantalum
- Terbium
- Thallium
- Thulium
- Yttrium
Rare
Genuinely uncommon. A strong pick on any prompt.
- Antimony
- Barium
- Beryllium
- Bismuth
- Cadmium
- Cesium
- Gallium
- Germanium
- Iridium
- Manganese
- Molybdenum
- Neodymium
- Osmium
- Palladium
- Polonium
- Radium
- Rhodium
- Scandium
- Strontium
- Tellurium
- Thorium
- Vanadium
- Ytterbium
- Zirconium
Schooler
Solid, but you’re swimming with the crowd.
- Calcium
- Chromium
- Cobalt
- Lithium
- Magnesium
- Nickel
- Plutonium
- Potassium
- Sodium
- Titanium
- Tungsten
- Uranium
- Zinc
Plankton
The first thing everyone thinks of.
- Aluminum
- Copper
- Gold
- Iron
- Lead
- Mercury
- Platinum
- Silver
- Tin
More from Dive #88
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- Name a sport that is a race (fastest to the finish wins)
- Name a country that borders Iraq or Iran by land