Krillion prompt · October 6, 2026
Name a sport or game where you score by getting a ball or object into a hole, hoop, basket or pocket
Krillion accepted 237 answers for this prompt in Dive #83. They’re all below, starting at the trench floor with the gem and rising to the Plankton everyone thinks of first.
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Notes on this prompt
- With 237 accepted answers, this prompt is narrower than a typical Krillion prompt (about 379), so there’s less room to go deep.
- 190 answers (80%) are Deep Cuts and 34 are Rare, while 4 sit at Plankton.
Quick picks
The shortest Rare or deeper answers, easy to type before the timer runs out.
Carrom +60 Plinko +60 Kan Jam +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.
- Toad in the hole
Sussex pub game where brass coins are flicked into a lead-topped hole.
Deep Cut
Real obscurity. This is where the list gets long.
- American carrom
- American four-ball billiards
- American snooker
- Ants in the Pants
- Artistic pool
- Back-basket ball toss
- Bagatelle
- Bank pool
- Bar billiards
- Bas-Ket
- Baseball (drinking game)
- Baseball pocket billiards
- Beugelen
- Billard Nicolas
- Biribinha
- Black pool
- Blackball
- Bottle pool
- Bounce-Off
- Bowl of death
- Bowlliards
- Box hockey
- Brazilian snooker
- Bridgeboard
- Bucket golf
- Bucketball
- Bugalliña
- Búlica
- Bungums
- Buzkashi
- Caps
- Caroline
- Cestoball
- Chandelier
- Cherokee marbles
- Cherry pit
- Chicago (pool)
- Chinese eight-ball
- Chippo
- Chuiwan
- Civil war (beer pong)
- Clock golf
- Clothespin drop
- Codeball
- Coin drop
- Corners
- Cowboy pool
- Cribbage pool
- Crud
- Cuju
- Cupthroat
- Dakyu
- Dime pitch
- Donkey basketball
- Dueball
- Embroidered ball toss
- English billiards
- Equal offense
- Farmersgolf
- Fascination
- Fast5 netball
- Fifteen-ball pool
- Fire in the Hole
- Fives (basketball)
- Flick a Ball
- Flickerball
- Fling golf
- Flying snooker
- Foobaskill
- Fortification billiards
- Full court press
- Funnel ball
- Gateball
- German pyramid
- Golf billiards
- Golf croquet
- GolfCross
- Gologan
- Ground billiards
- Ground golf
- Gua
- Gyiren
- Halo Ball
- Hickory golf
- Hole and taw
- Holen
- Holesies
- Honolulu (pool)
- Hoop and pole
- Hoop takraw
- Horse race game
- Horseball
- Hotshot
- Hungry hippos drinking game
- Hungry Hungry Hippos
- Husarengolf
- Ice Cold Beer
- Icetray quarters
- Igo ball
- In and Out
- Japanese billiards
- Kairun
- Kaisa
- Kalahoyo
- Kancha
- Kelly pool
- Kendama
- Klask
- Knucks
- Korbball
- Krolf
- Life pool
- Mallet golf
- Mars Open
- Milk can toss
- Mr. Bucket
- Ném còn
- Novuss
- One-pocket
- Pachinko
- Paddle beer pong
- Pall-mall
- Park golf
- Pato
- Pearl ball
- Penny in the hole
- Pigs in Clover
- Piratenbillard
- Pit-Pat
- Pitch-pot
- Pitchnut
- Piterbasket
- Poker billiards
- Pokerino
- Port and King billiards
- Power Snooker
- PowerPlay Golf
- Puggy
- Putter pong
- Pyramid pool
- Pyramid quarters
- Quidditch pong
- Ring and pin
- Ringball
- Roll-down
- Rolley Hole
- Roque
- Rotation
- Russian pyramid
- Sapo
- Scat ball
- Seven-ball
- Shoot the moon
- Six-ball
- Six-on-six basketball
- Six-red snooker
- Sjoelen
- Slosh
- Smartball
- Snookball
- Snooker plus
- SnooPool
- Speed golf
- Speed pool
- Starball
- Svaika
- Swingolf
- Tamaire
- Target bird golf
- Tejo
- Ten-ball
- Tenball (snooker)
- Three holes
- Three-ball
- Torwandschießen
- Trou-madame
- Trucco
- Ulama
- Underwater hockey
- Underwater rugby
- Unicycle basketball
- Urban golf
- Volleybeer
- Volunteer snooker
- Walking netball
- Water basketball
- Wheelchair netball
- WhirlyBall
- Wildcat baseball
- Woodball
Rare
Genuinely uncommon. A strong pick on any prompt.
- 3x3 basketball
- Arcade basketball
- Around the World
- BASEketball
- Beer die
- Bozo buckets
- Bumper pool
- Bushel basket toss
- Carrom
- Crokinole
- Cutthroat
- Fishbowl toss
- Footgolf
- H-O-R-S-E
- Kan Jam
- Killer pool
- Knockout
- Korfball
- Lawn darts
- Nine-ball
- One-on-one
- Pitch and putt
- Plinko
- Quarters
- Quidditch
- SlamBall
- Slap cup
- Straight pool
- Tiddlywinks
- Topgolf
- Trashketball
- Twenty-one
- Washer toss
- Wheelchair basketball
Schooler
Solid, but you’re swimming with the crowd.
- Beer pong
- Cornhole
- Croquet
- Disc golf
- Eight-ball
- Netball
- Skee-Ball
- Snooker
Plankton
The first thing everyone thinks of.
- Basketball
- Golf
- Mini golf
- Pool