Krillion prompt · November 1, 2026
Name a tool used for digging
Krillion accepted 425 answers for this prompt in Dive #109. 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 425 accepted answers, this prompt is close to a typical Krillion prompt (about 608).
- 375 answers (88%) are Deep Cuts and 40 are Rare, while 3 sit at Plankton.
Quick picks
The shortest Rare or deeper answers, easy to type before the timer runs out.
Plow +60 Auger +60 Edger +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.
- Golf hole cutter
Golf's 4.25-inch hole size copied Musselburgh's old cutter.
Deep Cut
Real obscurity. This is where the list gets long.
- 4-in-1 bucket
- Air spade
- Airlift dredge
- Almocafre
- Amphibious dredger
- Amphibious excavator
- Angady
- Antler mattock
- Antler pick
- Archaeology trowel
- Ard
- Asparagus knife
- Auger attachment
- Auger boring machine
- Auger dredge
- Auger miner
- Avalanche shovel
- Azada
- Backhoe dredger
- Badza
- Bailer
- Bait fork
- Bait pump
- Becket
- Bed edger
- Bed former
- Beet harvester
- Beet hoe
- Bidens
- Bison scapula hoe
- Bitchu-guwa
- Blasthole drill
- Bolter miner
- Border fork
- Bored piling rig
- Bow ard
- Box blade
- Box corer
- Boxhole borer
- Breast plough
- Broadfork
- Brush grubber
- Bucket auger
- Bucket dredger
- Bucket wheel dredger
- Bucket-chain excavator
- Bucket-wheel excavator
- Bulb harvester
- Bulb lifter
- Bulb planter
- Bulb shovel
- Bull rake
- Bull tongue plough
- Bund former
- Cable excavator
- Cable laying shovel
- Cable plough
- Cable tool rig
- Cangkul
- Cape Cod weeder
- Caprock shovel
- Carrot harvester
- Carruca
- Cas-chrom
- Chert hoe
- Chilled plough
- Chisel plough
- Circle hoe
- Clam dredge
- Clam gun
- Clam hoe
- Clam rake
- Clam shovel
- Clamshell bucket
- Clay spade
- Coa
- Coal cutter
- Coal plough
- Coal shovel
- Cockle jumbo
- Cockle rake
- Collinear hoe
- Combat engineer vehicle
- Combi tool
- Continuous flight auger
- Continuous miner
- Core drill
- Cornish shovel
- Craam
- Crack weeder
- Crevice tool
- Crook ard
- Cutter mattock
- Cutter suction dredger
- Daba
- Dandelion digger
- Delving spade
- Deungora
- Diamond hoe
- Dibber
- Digger derrick
- Dikella
- Direct push rig
- Disc trencher
- Ditcher
- Dock lifter
- Dolabra
- Drag dredger
- Dragline
- Drain scoop
- Drain spade
- Draw hoe
- Drill jumbo
- Dustpan dredge
- Dutch auger
- Écobue
- Elevating grader
- Excavator bucket
- Eye hoe
- Fartanya
- Field cultivator
- Field hoe
- Fire plow
- Fishtail spade
- Floral hoe
- Floral spade
- Flower fork
- Foot plough
- Fork hoe
- Fresno scraper
- Frost bucket
- Fulcrum head weeder
- Gad
- Galma
- Gang hoe
- Garae
- Gardening claw gloves
- Geoduck stinger
- Gouge auger
- Grab dredger
- Grab sampler
- Grading bucket
- Grafting spade
- Grape hoe
- Gravity corer
- Gripping spade
- Grub hoe
- Grubber rake
- Guna
- Half-moon edger
- Half-moon hoe
- Hamilton tree planter
- Hammer grab
- Harley rake
- Harrow
- Heart spade
- Hengahenga
- Highwall miner
- Hodding spade
- Hoe rake
- Hoedad
- Hollow-stem auger
- Homi
- Hop bar
- Hori hori
- Horizontal directional drill
- Horse hoe
- Hot water drill
- Hoto
- Hydraulic breaker
- Hydraulic mining shovel
- Hydraulic monitor
- Hydro excavator
- ʻŌʻō
- ʻOso
- Ice chisel
- Ice core drill
- Irish spade
- Irrigation shovel
- Jembe
- Jet-lift dredger
- Jumper bar
- Kāheru
- Kajandu
- Ketmen
- Khilna
- Khurpi
- Kō
- Krabbelaar
- Kuwa
- Laia
- Legón
- Lei
- Ligo
- Lister
- Long reach excavator
- Longwall shearer
- Louchet
- Loy
- Lug spade
- Luoyang spade
- Lurgan spade
- Mai
- Makella
- Mammoty
- Maresha
- Marra
- Mattock
- McLeod
- Metal detecting digger
- Metal detecting shovel
- Microtunnelling machine
- Midi excavator
- Mine plough
- Mobile miner
- Moil
- Mole plough
- Mud auger
- Mud shovel
- Navvy shovel
- Nejiri gama
- Niwashi
- Nursery hoe
- Onion harvester
- Onion hoe
- Orange peel grab
- Paxton hoe
- PDC bit
- Peanut digger
- Peat corer
- Peat spade
- Pick hoe
- Pick mattock
- Piston corer
- Piston drill
- Planer auger
- Plow hoe
- Plugger
- Plughoe
- Pneumatic dredger
- Pneumatic piercing tool
- Post hole digger
- Potato fork
- Potato harvester
- Potato hook
- Pottiputki
- Power shovel
- Pressure digger
- Prospector's pick
- Puddler
- Pulaski
- Quahog rake
- Rabbiting spade
- Rail-road excavator
- Railroad pick
- Raise borer
- Rastrum
- Raucana
- Rhino tool
- Rice shovel
- Ridger
- Ridging hoe
- Ripper
- Ristle
- Riverside auger
- Roadheader
- Rock auger
- Rock bucket
- Rock spade
- Rock wheel
- Rocker shovel
- Rolling cultivator
- Root auger
- Root crop harvester
- Root cutter shovel
- Root rake
- Rotary furrower
- Rotary hoe
- San Angelo bar
- Sand auger
- Sand scoop
- Sarculum
- Sauzahn
- Scapula shovel
- Scoop shovel
- Scots plough
- Scovil hoe
- Screw auger
- Seng hoe
- Shaft sinking machine
- Shelby tube
- Shell hoe
- Shellfish tongs
- Shield TBM
- Shovel plough
- Si (耜)
- Sidewalk boring tool
- Skeleton bucket
- Slackline excavator
- Slane
- Slip scraper
- Slurry shield
- Sod cutter
- Soeseurang
- Sokha
- Spade plough
- Spader
- Spear Head Spade
- Speed dibble
- Split-spoon sampler
- Spoon dredge
- Spoon shovel
- Spud bar
- Stirrup hoe
- Stony soil auger
- Strip till toolbar
- Stump bucket
- Submersible dredger
- Subsea trencher
- Subsoiler
- Subterrene
- Suction dredger
- Suction excavator
- Super Pulaski
- Surface miner
- Swan-neck hoe
- Swedish planting hoe
- Switch plough
- Swoe
- Tacarpo
- Taclla
- Telescopic excavator
- Terrarium spade
- Tile plow
- Tilt bucket
- Timo
- Tōguwa
- Track loader
- Tractor post hole digger
- Trailing suction hopper dredger
- Transplanting spade
- Trapezoid hoe
- Tree planting bar
- Tree planting shovel
- Tree spade
- Trench cutter
- Tricone bit
- Trowel bayonet
- Truffle spade
- Ttabi
- Tú·kes
- Tugal
- Tunnel excavator
- Turfing iron
- Turnwrest plough
- Tushkar
- Twibill
- V-bucket
- Vertical tillage tool
- Vibracorer
- Walking excavator
- Wana
- Water injection dredger
- Water well drilling rig
- Weeding spud
- Well auger
- Wheel dozer
- Wheel hoe
- Wheel tractor-scraper
- Wheeled excavator
- Widger
- Wiedehopfhaue
- Wing hoe
- Wira
- Wire weeder
Rare
Genuinely uncommon. A strong pick on any prompt.
- Aerator
- Auger
- Backhoe
- Beach spade
- Border spade
- Camping trowel
- Cultivator
- Digging bar
- Digging stick
- Dredger
- Drilling rig
- Edger
- Entrenching tool
- Garden fork
- Grader
- Hand fork
- Hand shovel
- Ice auger
- Ice axe
- Miner's pick
- Mini excavator
- Planting spade
- Plow
- Rock drill
- Rock pick
- Rotary hammer
- Round-point shovel
- Sand digger
- Skid steer
- Snow shovel
- Soil scoop
- Square-point shovel
- Steam shovel
- Tiller
- Transplanter
- Trencher
- Trenching shovel
- Trunk shovel
- Tunnel boring machine
- Weeder
Schooler
Solid, but you’re swimming with the crowd.
- Bulldozer
- Drill
- Excavator
- Jackhammer
- Spade
- Trowel
Plankton
The first thing everyone thinks of.
- Hoe
- Pickaxe
- Shovel
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