Krillion Game / field guide
Krillion Game science guide.
Science questions often look open-ended until you read the standard and range in the wording. Two Krillion Game prompts show how to turn a large subject into a small, checkable list.
01 / Category
“Planet” is an eight-member set here.
This Krillion Game prompt is “Name a planet in our Solar System.” NASA lists eight planets from Mercury through Neptune and separates dwarf planets such as Pluto. Neptune is valid; Pluto is outside this question’s collection. Knowing both names is useful, but only one belongs to the requested category.
Question-bank check
Keep Mars as a safe fallback. If you can recall Neptune with confidence, it earns 100 editorial points in this question. Waiting for a supposedly rarer answer gives no bonus and risks a zero at timeout.
Make a mental split: four inner planets, then four outer planets. This is a retrieval aid for the published set, not a new rule about how the game scores astronomy knowledge.
02 / Number range
The first 20 elements stop at calcium.
Another prompt asks for “a chemical element with atomic number 1 through 20.” The IUPAC table puts calcium at 20 and scandium at 21. A real element can therefore be a wrong answer when it falls outside this range.
The game accepts both the canonical name and recorded symbols for this question: “Ca” maps to calcium, and “Ar” maps to argon. A symbol is not a universal shortcut for every Krillion Game prompt; check the answer list and aliases for the particular question.
Scandium is an element, but its atomic number is 21.
Calcium is number 20, so it is inside the stated set.
03 / Repeatable method
Fix three things before ranking candidates.
- Source: Which authority or dated table defines this set?
- Category: Does the prompt ask for planets, dwarf planets, elements, or another narrower class?
- Boundary: Is there a number range, era, edition, or other stopping point?
Only then consider a less obvious member. Krillion Game’s point tiers are assigned by editors; they are not measured from player answer frequencies. For a separate country/category example, read the geography boundary guide.