Noillirk FAQ — Answers First, Waffle Second

Noillirk resets every day at midnight UTC — a fresh set of seven prompts goes live, the same set for every player worldwide. If it is 00:30 in London or 19:30 the previous evening in New York, you are looking at the new day's dive in both places; the date shown on the answers page is always the UTC date of the current set.

Yesterday's prompts close and their full answer bank is published on the yesterday page and in the archive. Your score for yesterday is final — it stays in your records and your streak counts it — but the dive itself cannot be re-played as a daily. You can revisit the same prompts any time in replay and Unlimited play.

Because the daily is a shared test: everyone gets the same seven prompts and one honest attempt, which is what makes scores and streaks comparable. The answers are pre-scored, so a second attempt would just be memory, not skill. Want more water? Unlimited mode and the eight category packs are endless and tracked separately.

Midnight UTC, converted: 7pm the previous evening in New York in winter (8pm during daylight saving), midnight in London in winter (1am during BST), 5am the same morning in Karachi, and 9am in Tokyo. The rule that keeps it simple: the new dive is live the moment it is 00:00 UTC, wherever you are — if your evening feels early for a "new day", you're playing ahead of the Americas, not behind. The answers page always shows the current set's UTC date if you ever doubt which day you're on.

No — refresh and reset are different things. The reset is the daily rollover at midnight UTC: new prompts, closed yesterday, updated streaks. Refreshing your browser just reloads the page; it never resets your dive, your score or your records. If midnight UTC passed and you still see yesterday's set, your open tab is simply holding the old page — one manual refresh picks up the new dive.

Honestly: you don't. The daily is one attempt by design — a restart button would make every score a best-of-many and quietly end the sport. What you can do: keep swimming in Unlimited mode (endless, no lock), drill a category pack, or re-dive any closed day in Replay once it's published. Tomorrow's daily arrives at the next midnight UTC, fresh for everyone at once.

No — and that's deliberate. A local-midnight reset would hand every timezone a different "today", leak each day's answers across the dateline hours before some players even woke up, and make streaks incomparable. One boundary — midnight UTC — means the whole world dives the same seven prompts inside the same 24 hours.

Every answer in the bank is pre-scored by how rare it is: Plankton 10, Too Clever 15, Schooler 30, Rare 60, Deep Cut 85, One in a Noillirk 100. Seven prompts, so a perfect dive is 700 points. Points become depth at ten metres per point — a perfect dive touches the trench floor at 7,000m. An answer that isn't in the bank scores zero for that prompt, but the dive continues. The full breakdown lives on the tiers page.

The bank is generous but finite: it holds the answers the game's research expects players to give, scored by rarity. A correct-but-unbanked answer — an unusual spelling, a very obscure valid pick the bank doesn't carry, or a near-miss the "did you mean" hint didn't catch — scores as a miss. That's the trade at the heart of the game: you are not playing against the dictionary, you are playing against the crowd's imagination, and the bank is the crowd, written down.

It's the top tier: the single designated rarest answer for a prompt, worth 100 points. Every prompt has one (occasionally two) banked. Land one and the game marks it — it's the loudest moment in a dive, and seven of them in one dive is the perfect 700. The name is the mirror of "one in a krillion": rare here isn't measured against a number, it's measured against the mirrored crowd.

Finish the daily dive on consecutive UTC days and your streak grows by one each day. Miss a calendar day entirely and the streak resets to zero — the dive itself is short (seven prompts, under three minutes), so the streak rewards showing up, not grinding. Streaks and personal bests are stored in your browser on your own device.

No account, no sign-up, no email. Your streak, best depth, last scores and unlocked achievements live in your browser's local storage on your device only. Clear your browser data and they reset — the game cannot recover them, because it never had them. A side effect: records don't follow you between phone and laptop; each device keeps its own mirror.

Milestones the mirror awards for the way you play, not just how much: first dive, first Deep Cut, first One in a Noillirk, a week-long streak, pack completions and more. They unlock during the results ceremony, live on your device, and exist purely for bragging rights — exactly as achievements should.

Daily — one shared set of seven prompts per UTC day, one attempt, streaks attached. Unlimited — endless freshly shuffled dives from the full 302-prompt bank, no lock, personal bests tracked separately. Packs — Unlimited-style dives drawn from a single category (geography, movies, sports, food, science, animals, history, music). Challenge — a pass-and-play duel: two players, one device, today's identical seven prompts, deepest diver wins.

It's the strategy the whole mirror is built on. Forward thinking asks "what's a good answer?" Backwards thinking asks "what will everyone else answer — and what does that leave for me?" You reason from the crowd's first instinct backwards to the answer they never reach. Plankton is the crowd's first thought; One in a Noillirk is what remains after you've reversed past it. The strategy guide teaches it in full.

Because it's Krillion spelled backwards — the mirror twin of the rarity dive: same rules, reversed name, violet water. The What is Noillirk? page tells the whole story, and if you arrived searching for the reverse or opposite Krillion game, congratulations — this is literally it.

Yes and yes. Noillirk is completely free, with no purchases anywhere in the game, and it runs in any modern browser — phone, tablet or desktop — with nothing to install. One tip for small screens: the dive panel is tall, so portrait phones get a sticky depth readout at the bottom of the screen.

Take the banked prompt "Name a country with the letter Z in its name." Zambia and Zimbabwe are Plankton (10) — the whole room types them. Czechia and Belize are Too Clever (15). Switzerland and New Zealand are Schooler (30). Mozambique and Tanzania are Rare (60), Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan are Deep Cut (85), and the designated gems — Bosnia and Herzegovina and Kyrgyzstan — are One in a Noillirk (100). Same prompt, same 25 seconds: the score is decided entirely by how far past the crowd's first thought you swam. Full ladders like this are published for every prompt on the prompts pages.

You met the Too Clever trap, the game's centre of gravity. Fifteen points is the tier for the answer that feels obscure — the quiz-fan capital, the foodie's first fermented food, the "underrated" film everyone calls underrated. It arrives fast and flatters you, which is exactly why thousands of players reach for it at once. The test divers use: if the answer arrived in the first three seconds and made you feel smart, it's probably Too Clever. Real depth arrives a beat slower and feels slightly less certain.

If what you type is close to a banked answer — a small misspelling, a missing accent, a near-miss spelling of the same word — the game shows you what it thinks you meant ("Vaduz", say, when you typed "Vadus") and holds the clock's verdict. Submit again to confirm the corrected answer and bank its full tier score, or edit the field and try something else. It only fires for genuine near-misses: a different answer altogether still scores as typed.

The bank, not the room. Every prompt's possible answers are written down in advance with fixed tiers, so two players who give the same banked answer always bank the same points — there is no live vote and no score that moves because other people played after you. "Rarity" here means the rarity the research baked into the bank: how the crowd is expected to answer, measured before you ever sat down.

Two ways. For a duel, open Challenge — a pass-and-play match on one device: both divers face today's identical seven prompts and the deeper dive wins, settled on the spot. For a long-distance rivalry, finish your daily and use the results screen's copy result button — it copies your dive log (score, depth and every round) as text you can send anywhere. Your friend dives the same day's set on their own device and you compare mirrors.

Packs are endless dives drawn from a single category of the bank — geography, movies, sports, food, science, animals, history and music. They are the training pool: streaks are never at risk, personal bests are tracked per pack, and every dive teaches you where that category's crowd stops thinking. The divers who improve fastest drill their two weakest packs in the packs hub for ten minutes, then bring the new depth back to the daily.

The daily is one honest attempt — that rule is what makes scores comparable and streaks mean anything. Replay exists for the learning the daily forbids: any past day's seven prompts, re-dived for practice only. Replay scores never touch your daily record, your streak or your personal bests — it is the sparring ring, not the title fight. It opens for a day once that day has closed, for obvious reasons.

Fresh for a long while. The bank holds 302 prompts (plus a curated set folded in from the game's original code), and each day's seven are drawn from it on a rotating schedule — the combinations stay new for months, and every day's full answer bank is published in the archive afterwards, so the study material grows by seven fully-scored prompts every single day. Studying that archive is, not coincidentally, the fastest known way to get better at the game.

Nothing to install — Noillirk is a web page, not an app download, and it asks for no account, email or payment details. You need a connection to load the game (it is a website, after all). Once a dive is on your screen it plays out on your device, and your streaks, records and achievements are stored in your browser — which is also why they live per-device and clear if you clear your browser data.