Krillion prompt · October 8, 2026
Name a symptom of a cold or flu
Krillion accepted 88 answers for this prompt in Dive #85. 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 88 accepted answers, this prompt is narrower than a typical Krillion prompt (about 400), so there’s less room to go deep.
- 39 answers (44%) are Deep Cuts and 26 are Rare, while 10 sit at Plankton.
Quick picks
The shortest Rare or deeper answers, easy to type before the timer runs out.
Croup +60 Earache +60 Red eyes +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.
- Chapped lips
Mouth breathing past a blocked nose dries lips until they crack.
Deep Cut
Real obscurity. This is where the list gets long.
- Altered sense of smell
- Bad breath
- Bluish lips
- Chest retractions
- Coated tongue
- Cold hands and feet
- Confusion
- Coughing up blood
- Dark circles under eyes
- Drooling
- Dry nose
- Febrile seizure
- Feeling faint
- Gagging
- Glassy eyes
- Grunting
- Head bobbing
- Itchy ears
- Low body temperature
- Low mood
- Metallic taste
- Mottled skin
- Mouth breathing
- Nasal flaring
- Noise sensitivity
- Nosebleed
- Pale skin
- Pauses in breathing
- Puffy eyes
- Rapid breathing
- Rapid heart rate
- Restlessness
- Sensitivity to light
- Snoring
- Swollen uvula
- Thirst
- Unsteadiness
- Voice change
- Weight loss
Rare
Genuinely uncommon. A strong pick on any prompt.
- Brain fog
- Chest pain
- Croup
- Dehydration
- Dizziness
- Dry mouth
- Earache
- Fever dreams
- Flushed face
- Goosebumps
- Irritability
- Itchy eyes
- Itchy nose
- Post-nasal drip
- Red eyes
- Shortness of breath
- Sore eyes
- Sore muscles from coughing
- Sore nose
- Sore skin
- Stomach ache
- Swollen glands
- Swollen tonsils
- Trouble sleeping
- Weakness
- Wheezing
Schooler
Solid, but you’re swimming with the crowd.
- Chest congestion
- Diarrhea
- Hoarseness
- Loss of appetite
- Loss of smell
- Loss of taste
- Mucus
- Nausea
- Sinus pressure
- Sweating
- Vomiting
- Watery eyes
Plankton
The first thing everyone thinks of.
- Body aches
- Chills
- Cough
- Fatigue
- Fever
- Headache
- Runny nose
- Sneezing
- Sore throat
- Stuffy nose
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