Krillion prompt · November 12, 2026
Name a type of injury (like a sprain, not a sprained ankle)
Krillion accepted 241 answers for this prompt in Dive #120. 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 241 accepted answers, this prompt is narrower than a typical Krillion prompt (about 767), so there’s less room to go deep.
- 127 answers (53%) are Deep Cuts and 101 are Rare, while 5 sit at Plankton.
Quick picks
The shortest Rare or deeper answers, easy to type before the timer runs out.
Bite +60 Welt +60 Scald +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.
- Contrecoup injury
Bruises the brain on the side opposite where the head was struck.
Deep Cut
Real obscurity. This is where the list gets long.
- Acoustic trauma
- Acute respiratory distress syndrome
- Adhesion
- Aerosol burn
- Ankylosis
- Apophysitis
- Arrow wound
- Arterial dissection
- Arterial gas embolism
- Atelectasis
- Atrophy
- Avulsion
- Avulsion fracture
- Axonotmesis
- Barotrauma
- Blast injury
- Bowing fracture
- Bucket-handle tear
- Buckle fracture
- Burst fracture
- Cardiac tamponade
- Cauda equina syndrome
- Cerebral edema
- Cerebrospinal fluid leak
- Chilblains
- Chondritis
- Chondromalacia
- Chop wound
- Chronic traumatic encephalopathy
- Cold injury
- Comminuted fracture
- Commotio cordis
- Contact burn
- Contracture
- Coral cut
- Crush syndrome
- Decompression sickness
- Dehiscence
- Demyelination
- Depressed fracture
- Desmitis
- Detachment
- Diffuse axonal injury
- Disseminated intravascular coagulation
- Dry socket
- Effusion
- Enthesitis
- Erosion
- Erythema ab igne
- Evisceration
- Extravasation injury
- Fat embolism
- Fistula
- Flame burn
- Flap tear
- Flash burn
- Fracture-dislocation
- Gore wound
- Hair tourniquet
- Hemarthrosis
- Hemolysis
- Hemopneumothorax
- Hemothorax
- High-pressure injection injury
- Hot tar burn
- Hydrocephalus
- Hyperflexion
- Hyphema
- Hypoxic injury
- Impacted fracture
- Impingement
- Insufficiency fracture
- Internal derangement
- Intra-articular fracture
- Intussusception
- Laser burn
- Linear fracture
- Low-temperature burn
- Malunion
- Mat burn
- Microtrauma
- Microwave burn
- MRI burn
- Myositis
- Myositis ossificans
- Needlestick injury
- Neurapraxia
- Neuritis
- Neurotmesis
- Non-displaced fracture
- Oblique fracture
- Open-book fracture
- Osteitis
- Osteochondral lesion
- Osteochondritis dissecans
- Paraphimosis
- Pathological fracture
- Perforating wound
- Perforation
- Periostitis
- Periprosthetic fracture
- Photokeratitis
- Pneumomediastinum
- Powder burn
- Pseudoaneurysm
- Pulmonary edema
- Radial tear
- Reperfusion injury
- Rhabdomyolysis
- Second impact syndrome
- Segmental fracture
- Sharp force injury
- Simple fracture
- Solar retinopathy
- Spinal stenosis
- Spondylolisthesis
- Stress reaction
- Stricture
- Subcutaneous emphysema
- Subluxation
- Synovitis
- Tendinosis
- Tenosynovitis
- Transverse fracture
- Vascular injury
- Ventilator-induced lung injury
- Vibration injury
Rare
Genuinely uncommon. A strong pick on any prompt.
- Abscess
- Acute kidney injury
- Amputation
- Aneurysm
- Appendicitis
- Asphyxiation
- Aspiration
- Bite
- Blister
- Blood blister
- Blunt force trauma
- Bone bruise
- Bone spur
- Bursitis
- Capsulitis
- Cardiac arrest
- Chafing
- Chemical burn
- Circulatory shock
- Compartment syndrome
- Compound fracture
- Compression fracture
- Crush injury
- Degloving
- Dental cavity
- Deviated septum
- Displaced fracture
- Drowning
- Electric shock
- Electrical burn
- Embolism
- Fasciitis
- Flesh wound
- Friction burn
- Frostbite
- Frostnip
- Gangrene
- Greenstick fracture
- Gunshot wound
- Hairline fracture
- Heat exhaustion
- Heatstroke
- Hematoma
- Hernia
- Hyperextension
- Hypothermia
- Ice burn
- Impalement
- Infarction
- Ingrown hair
- Ingrown nail
- Inhalation injury
- Internal bleeding
- Internal injury
- Intestinal obstruction
- Ischemia
- Lesion
- Necrosis
- Nerve injury
- Overuse injury
- Pancreatitis
- Paper cut
- Patellofemoral pain syndrome
- Penetrating trauma
- Pinched nerve
- Pneumothorax
- Poisoning
- Pressure injury
- Prolapse
- Puncture wound
- Radiation burn
- Radiation sickness
- Razor burn
- Road rash
- Rope burn
- Rug burn
- Rupture
- Scald
- Scarring
- Separation
- Sepsis
- Shin splints
- Shrapnel wound
- Slipped disc
- Spinal cord injury
- Spiral fracture
- Splinter
- Stab wound
- Sting
- Stress fracture
- Stroke
- Sunburn
- Tendinitis
- Thrombosis
- Torsion
- Traumatic brain injury
- Turf burn
- Ulcer
- Welt
- Whiplash
- Windburn
Schooler
Solid, but you’re swimming with the crowd.
- Bleeding
- Concussion
- Dislocation
- Scrape
- Strain
- Tear
- Wound
Plankton
The first thing everyone thinks of.
- Bruise
- Burn
- Cut
- Fracture
- Sprain
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