6 prompts across 6 dives · narrowest: 58 answers · widest: 14,605
The short version
"Name an artist with at least 1 million monthly listeners on Spotify" — that prompt alone had a pool of 14,605 valid answers. Music prompts are among the widest in Krillion, which creates a specific challenge: with thousands of names in the pool, even a "less famous" artist has plenty of company. The Plankton tier belongs to Taylor Swift, Ed Sheeran, and whoever is currently topping the charts. But the Deep Cut and One in a Krillion tiers are reachable if you know where to look: non-English language artists with crossover appeal, genre specialists from jazz and classical, one-hit wonders from decades past, and session musicians who are famous within the industry but invisible outside it.
Every krillion artist answers prompt on record
| Pool | Prompt | Dive | Date |
|---|---|---|---|
| 58 | Name a boy band | #12 | July 27, 2026 |
| 61 | Name a Renaissance artist | #14 | July 29, 2026 |
| 253 | Name a country music artist | #38 | August 22, 2026 |
| 534 | Name a boy band or girl group with over 500,000 monthly listeners on Spotify | #104 | October 27, 2026 |
| 1,719 | Name a female singer with over 500,000 monthly listeners on Spotify | #96 | October 19, 2026 |
| 14,605 | Name an artist with at least 1 million monthly listeners on Spotify | #82 | October 5, 2026 |
How to score rare on these prompts
The streaming-era charts are your Plankton zone. To go rare on music prompts, think in three directions. First: temporal depth. Artists who peaked before 2000 — especially one-hit wonders and genre pioneers — are in the pool but rarely chosen by a player base skewing younger. Second: geographic breadth. K-pop beyond BTS, Afrobeats beyond Burna Boy, Latin beyond Bad Bunny — every regional scene has major stars who are valid but under-picked. Third: instrumental and technical fame. Studio musicians, producers who also perform, jazz virtuosos, and classical soloists all count as "artists" on most prompts — and almost nobody types them.
Common mistakes
- Naming a band when the prompt asks for a solo artist (or vice versa)
- Using a producer's name when the prompt specifically says 'performing artist'
- Picking someone so obscure they're not in the pool — if you can't find them on Spotify, they might not count
What the data says about krillion artist answers
Looking at the full archive, krillion artist answers show up in 6 of 119 dives — roughly 5% of all daily games have at least one prompt in this category. The average pool size is 2,871 answers, making this a wider-than-average category where specificity matters even more. The spread between the narrowest (58) and widest (14,605) prompt is 251× — a huge range that means your strategy should change from prompt to prompt, not stay static.
Pro tips from the archive
- Read the constraint twice. The narrowest krillion artist answers prompts almost always have a specific condition — "ends in", "starts with", "contains" — that cuts the valid pool dramatically.
- Use the autocomplete. Type the first few letters of your candidate answer — if the game suggests it, it's in the pool. If not, try a different spelling.
- Don't go too exotic. The 100-point answer is still a real, documented answer. If you've never heard of it, it might not be in the pool at all.
- Bank on wide, gamble on narrow. When the pool is 5,000+, play it safe. When it's under 100, that's your rare-answer window.
- Study yesterday's 100-point answers. The yesterday page shows what won — patterns emerge within a week of daily reading.
Where to go next
Every category has its own hub, and every hub links back here. The loop: check today's hints before the dive, play your seven prompts, then study the rare answers record and full statistics to calibrate. When you're done for the day, Whallion is our bonus game — same rare-answer instinct, but you feed a whale.