What the pool size actually is
When a dive resets at 04:00 UTC, Krillion publishes each prompt together with its official answer pool. A prompt like “Name a country whose name ends in an ‘ee’ sound” might carry a pool of just 18 — eighteen valid answers in the world, and one of them is worth 100 points. A prompt like “Name an artist with a million monthly listeners” can run past 14,000. Same game, same seven prompts — completely different risk.
The four zones
| Zone | Pool size | What it means for your score |
|---|---|---|
| Narrow | under 300 | Only a handful of guesses land. Go specific and sideways — this is 100-point territory. |
| Moderate | 300 – 999 | The obvious picks count, but the rare tiers need a precise, unusual answer. |
| Wide | 1,000 – 4,999 | Most sensible guesses land. Bank safe points here before risking the narrow pools. |
| Huge | 5,000 and up | Almost anything reasonable counts. The trap is going too clever — rare tiers still need specificity. |
Today's dive, read through the zones
| Prompt | Pool | Zone | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Prompt 1 | Name a type of bed | 282 | Narrow |
| Prompt 2 | Name a food or ingredient that costs over US$100/kg ($45/lb), like caviar | 412 | Moderate |
| Prompt 3 | Name a song that has reached number one on the Billboard Hot 100 | 1,175 | Wide |
| Prompt 4 | Name a national park anywhere in the world | 3,630 | Wide |
| Prompt 5 | Name a TV comedy (tagged Comedy on IMDb, 1,000+ votes). | 4,844 | Wide |
| Prompt 6 | Name a country with a desert climate (in any part of it). | 67 | Narrow |
| Prompt 7 | Name a player currently on an English Premier League or NFL team | 3,149 | Wide |
Daily Dive #102 · October 25, 2026 — regenerated every day from the official reveal.
The distribution, across every dive on record
Zones are easiest to feel with real counts behind them. Across all 714 pooled prompts we've recorded since launch:
| Zone | Share of all prompts | What it tells you |
|---|---|---|
| Narrow (under 300) | 68% | Roughly one prompt in 1 — your weekly 100-point shot |
| Moderate (300–999) | 19% | Where precision beats speed |
| Wide + Huge (1,000+) | 13% | The floor under your score — bank these first |
The median pool across the whole record sits at 113 answers, and the full range runs from 8 to 32,270. One practical takeaway: on an average day you'll meet one genuinely narrow prompt. Knowing which one it is before the timer starts — that's what the dive sheet is for.
Where the numbers come from
The pool sizes on this site are not estimates. Each one comes from the official reveal after the 04:00 UTC reset, is recorded the same morning, and stays frozen — a dive's pool doesn't quietly change afterward. If the game ever corrects a count, we correct ours and log it on the methodology page. That's also why older dives sometimes show a "pending" where a pool should be: we'd rather show an honest gap than an invented number.
A narrow pool changes your timer, not your knowledge
Here's the part most players learn the hard way. In a 14,000-answer pool, your job is recall speed — type the first sensible word and move on. In an 18-answer pool, speed is actively dangerous: you have maybe two seconds of autocomplete feedback to confirm your spelling matches the official entry, and a typo costs the entire prompt. The routine that works: read the prompt twice, think of three candidates, type the one you're sure of spelling. In narrow water, the tortoise genuinely beats the hare.
Reading the week, not just the day
A single dive's numbers can mislead — some weeks run generous, some claustrophobic. What travels is the shape: almost every dive mixes one or two narrow pools into a field of wide ones, and the leaderboard is decided on the narrow ones while the wide ones set the floor. When a new dive looks unusually tight compared to the trailing week (15,406 average across the last seven dives), expect lower scores across the board and a leaderboard that rewards the players who studied their specific corners.
Pool size vs. tier: supply and demand
Two numbers describe every prompt, and they answer different questions. The pool size is supply — how many answers exist at all. Your tier is demand — how many other players wanted the same answer you did. A huge pool with a crowd herd (Name a fruit → banana) still pays Plankton. A tiny pool where everyone converges on the same two words pays Schooler to nearly everyone. The 100-point money is where supply is small and the crowd splits — that's why reading both numbers together beats reading either one alone. The scoring guide unpacks the six tiers; this page's job is the supply side.
Questions people ask about pool sizes
Do pool sizes change during the day?
Not on our record. A dive's pool is fixed at the reveal and stays frozen — if we ever spot a corrected count, the change is logged on the changelog rather than silently overwritten.
Why do two similar prompts have wildly different pools?
One extra condition changes everything. "Name a country" runs thousands of answers; "name a country ending in a vowel sound" runs a fraction of that. The constraint list is the pool — read it the way you'd read a contract.
Is a bigger pool ever better for rare hunters?
Counterintuitively, yes, sometimes: a huge pool means the crowd scatters, so a specific pick can land rare even among thousands of valid answers. The guaranteed 100-point opportunities still cluster in the narrow pools, though — the odds just math out friendlier there.
The thirty-second habit
Everything on this page compresses into one routine: when the dive sheet loads, spend thirty seconds scanning the seven pool sizes before you play. Mark the narrowest prompt — that's where your deliberate thinking goes. Note the two widest — those get your fast, safe words. That's it. No spreadsheet, no ritual, just a glance that most players never take, worth more than any amount of mid-dive cleverness, because it's the only decision you make while the clock is off.
How to use the zones in a live dive
Open the wide and huge pools first and bank safe points with your most common-sense answers. Save your creative energy for the narrow ones: that is where a sideways pick turns into One in a Krillion. And remember the arithmetic — one rejected answer costs a whole prompt, so an accepted Schooler always beats a rejected brilliant guess. The scoring guide has the full math, and prompt statistics shows how every pool on record stacks up.