Three prompts, thirty seconds, twelve swimmers
Krillocity runs three prompts in a live room of up to twelve players. Each prompt is open for thirty seconds, and you can enter as many valid answers as you can produce. The rare ones carry you further down the course.
Most trivia gives you a single slot per question. Krillocity gives you thirty seconds and however many names you can type into it.
Volume keeps you moving. Rarity decides how far each answer takes you, so a list of obvious names covers less water than one name nobody else found.
Three prompts appear in sequence, each open for thirty seconds. Every player types answers into the same prompt at the same time. A valid answer is one the game's bank recognises for that prompt, and each one pushes your swimmer along the course.
If every answer counted equally, the fastest typist would win by listing the first ten obvious names. Weighting by rarity changes the strategy: the first few answers get you off the line, and the last thirty seconds are spent digging for names the rest of the room will not reach.
Thirty seconds is long enough for eight or ten answers and too short for a careful search. Most players exhaust the obvious names in the first half and then spend the second half deciding whether an uncertain name is worth the keystrokes. A rejected answer costs time, not points.
The room size keeps the field readable. With twelve players you can see who is ahead and roughly which names they found, without the scoreboard turning into noise. The same prompt set is used for everyone, so the result reflects recall rather than a lucky draw.
The parts that make thirty seconds feel shorter than they are.
The clock runs for the whole room and does not pause between answers. Everything you type has to fit inside that window.
Rooms cap at twelve players, which keeps the race legible and every prompt contested rather than crowded.
Each valid answer advances your swimmer by an amount that depends on how few players found it. Obvious names still count, they simply cover less distance.
You are not choosing one answer from a list; you are producing as many as the prompt allows. Valid entries stack within the same thirty seconds.
Three things happen, in order.
Join with up to eleven other players. The race starts when the room is ready, and all three prompts are fixed in advance.
Each prompt stays open for thirty seconds. Enter names as they occur to you and keep going when the obvious ones run out.
Your swimmer advances after each prompt according to how rare your answers were. The final position is the sum of three prompts, not one lucky round.
Three players on racing against a room.
The obvious names get you off the line but never win. My best race came from spending the last ten seconds on names I was not sure would be accepted.
Twelve seats is the right size. With more players the course becomes unreadable, and you stop noticing which answers actually moved anyone.
I lost my first three races and then realised volume matters more than precision. Typing eight names beats typing two careful ones.
Race format, room size and scoring.
Twelve seats, three prompts and ninety seconds of typing. Bring the names nobody else will think of.
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