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How scoring works: Krillion
Your game score comes from your own puzzle result. Your party rank compares that score with your party's submissions for the same day.
Quick summary
Seven prompts a day, one answer each — the rarer your answer, the deeper you dive and the more points you score, up to 100 per prompt. In a party, whoever dove deepest ranks highest.
How to score well
- Skip the obvious — the first answer everyone thinks of is Plankton (10 points); a genuinely uncommon one is Rare (60) or Deep Cut (85).
- Beware 'Too Clever' — the famous 'obscure' pick that everyone also reaches for is worth only 15.
- Never let the clock run out — a miss scores 0, while even a Plankton answer scores 10.
- Each day has one designated gem worth 100 — the 'One in a Krillion' answer — but it's chosen for fun as much as rarity, so don't bank on it.
- Every completed dive counts — there's no losing, only shallower dives.
How ranking works in parties
- Higher point totals rank higher within the party.
- Unsolved (DNF) entries earn 0 points for the day.
- Tied totals share the same competition rank (1, 1, 3).
Example
In a 3-player party Alice scores 410, Bob scores 255, Carol logs a DNF. Alice earns 3 points (1st), Bob earns 2, Carol earns 0.
How to submit your score
iPhone and iPad
Finish all seven prompts and tap Surface. On the dive summary tap Share and choose PuzzleParty, or tap Copy Result and paste it into PuzzleParty. Same flow on the web.
Android
Finish all seven prompts and tap Surface. On the dive summary tap Share and choose PuzzleParty, or tap Copy Result and paste it into PuzzleParty. Same flow on the web.
Technical scoring data
{
"ranking": {
"tie_algorithm": {
"key": "competition_ranking",
"display_name": "Competition ranking"
}
},
"examples": [
"A 450+ dive \u2014 the game's top band, reached by about 3% of players \u2014 earns the maximum game score; a 520 and a 460 both normalize to 1.0 but the 520 ranks higher in the party.",
"A 300 (a typical dive) beats a 150 \u2014 more points always rank higher.",
"A 0 (seven misses) still counts as a completed, ranked result with the 0.2 solved floor."
],
"rule_text": "Your score is the day's Krillion points total: seven prompts, each worth 10 (Plankton), 15 (Too Clever), 30 (Schooler), 60 (Rare), 85 (Deep Cut) or 100 (One in a Krillion) points, or 0 for a miss \u2014 up to 700. Higher totals earn a better game score; 450 or more (the game's 'One in a krillion' band) earns the maximum. Every shared dive counts as solved; only a manual-entry DNF scores 0.",
"edge_cases": [
"There is no failure state in the game itself \u2014 every completed dive produces a share and is treated as solved, even with seven misses.",
"A manual-entry DNF (didn't finish the dive) is the only unsolved state; it scores 0.0 and is excluded from score averages.",
"The seven emoji show which tier each answer landed in; the stated points total is what's scored, not the emoji.",
"Archive replays share as 'Krillion \u27f2 #N' and are recorded against that dive's original date, so a party's late-entry rules decide whether they count."
],
"measurement": {
"metric_key": "score",
"metric_label": "Points",
"scoring_type": "higher_better"
},
"human_review": {
"checklist": [
"Verify rule_text matches the parser: score = the stated points line from the share, every parsed share solved.",
"Verify the 450-point ceiling in rule_text matches scoring_config.max_score in GameSeeder (change both if Open Decision 1 picks 700).",
"Verify examples use realistic 0\u2013700 integer scores and the higher_better direction.",
"Verify edge_cases cover the manual-DNF-only failure state and archive replays."
],
"machine_verifiable_scope": [
"measurement.scoring_type",
"absolute_scoring.method",
"absolute_scoring.solved_floor",
"absolute_scoring.unsolved_score",
"absolute_scoring.range.best",
"absolute_scoring.range.worst_solved",
"ranking.tie_algorithm.key",
"party_ranking.normalization_summary"
]
},
"party_ranking": {
"normalization_summary": "Within a party, players are ranked on this game using higher point totals first (0\u2013700), with unsolved entries ranked last. Each player earns one point for every party member they beat, plus one. Players who don't solve the puzzle earn zero points for this game."
},
"schema_version": 1,
"absolute_scoring": {
"range": {
"best": 1,
"worst_solved": 0.2
},
"method": "higher_better",
"scoring_type": "higher_better",
"solved_floor": 0.2,
"unsolved_score": 0
}
}