Krillion prompt · October 23, 2026
Name an animal that sprays, spits or squirts something to defend itself.
Krillion accepted 112 answers for this prompt in Dive #100. 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 112 accepted answers, this prompt is narrower than a typical Krillion prompt (about 580), so there’s less room to go deep.
- 82 answers (73%) are Deep Cuts and 24 are Rare, while 1 sit at Plankton.
Quick picks
The shortest Rare or deeper answers, easy to type before the timer runs out.
Mink +60 Alpaca +60 Earwig +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.
- Pygmy sperm whale
Startled, it releases a reddish cloud of intestinal fluid, squid-style.
Deep Cut
Real obscurity. This is where the list gets long.
- African striped weasel
- Albatross
- Amazon ant
- Armoured cricket
- Atlas moth caterpillar
- Bald-faced hornet
- Black skimmer
- Bronze orange bug
- Chameleon gecko
- Chinchemolle
- Coconut stick insect
- Darkling beetle
- Elm sawfly
- European roller
- Exploding ant
- Exploding termite
- False bombardier beetle
- Fieldfare
- Fire-breathing shrimp
- Florida woods cockroach
- Fulmar
- Geoduck
- Giant clam
- Giant red mysid
- Golden-eyed stick insect
- Green lynx spider
- Grison
- Ground beetle
- Guanaco
- Heron
- Honeypot ant
- Hoopoe
- Horse clam
- Leaf-footed bug
- Longhorn crazy ant
- Lubber grasshopper
- Luminous copepod
- Marbled polecat
- Marsh mongoose
- Masked palm civet
- Mole cricket
- Nasute termite
- Pacific beetle cockroach
- Parachartergus wasp
- Parktown prawn
- Peppermint stick insect
- Peruvian firestick
- Petrel
- Piddock
- Pinacate beetle
- Pinktoe tarantula
- Polecat
- Prominent moth caterpillar
- Puss moth caterpillar
- Razor clam
- Red-lined carrion beetle
- Rinkhals
- Saharan silver ant
- Sea firefly
- Sea hare
- Shearwater
- Soft-shell clam
- Spiny ant
- Spiny-tailed gecko
- Spitfire sawfly
- Spitting assassin bug
- Spitting scorpion
- Squirting earthworm
- Stink badger
- Tawny crazy ant
- Tern
- Tiger keelback
- Tomopteris
- Tubeshoulder
- Two-striped walking stick
- Vampire squid
- Velvet worm
- Vicuña
- Vinegaroon
- Weaver ant
- Yellow crazy ant
- Zorilla
Rare
Genuinely uncommon. A strong pick on any prompt.
- Alpaca
- Bombardier beetle
- Cane toad
- Carpenter ant
- Chinchilla
- Cuttlefish
- Earwig
- Fire salamander
- Grasshopper
- Hagfish
- Honey badger
- Horned lizard
- Hornet
- Locust
- Millipede
- Mink
- Sea cucumber
- Sea squirt
- Seagull
- Spitting cobra
- Spitting spider
- Stink bug
- Vulture
- Wood ant
Schooler
Solid, but you’re swimming with the crowd.
- Camel
- Llama
- Octopus
- Squid
Plankton
The first thing everyone thinks of.
- Skunk
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