About Noillirk
Most quizzes ask whether you know the answer. Noillirk asks whether you know an answer nobody else would think of.
The idea
Ask a room full of people to name a bird and you will hear "eagle" a dozen times before anyone says "hoopoe". Noillirk is built on that gap between the obvious and the surprising. The prompts are easy on purpose; the challenge is to dig past the first thing that comes to mind while a 25-second clock runs down.
We chose a climb because it makes progress feel physical. Each answer lifts a little balloon through the real atmosphere, past airliners and weather balloons, through the ozone layer and the auroras, and on a very good day all the way to orbit. A score of 412 means something when it puts you just above the International Space Station.
What is in the game
- More than 850 prompts across seven categories: nature, geography, entertainment, food and drink, sports and hobbies, science and technology, and everyday life.
- For every prompt, an answer sheet of hundreds of valid answers sorted by how commonly people give them, plus hand-picked Shooting Stars with a short fact about each.
- A daily climb that is the same for everyone, an endless Unlimited mode, and an archive with the answers to every past day.
How the sheets are made
Each sheet starts as a broad list of correct answers, which is then ranked by how familiar each answer is: the ones most people would name first sit at the top, the specialist ones at the bottom. Letter rules in a prompt ("starts with P", "exactly five letters") are checked separately by the game, so a sheet can never award points for an answer that breaks them. Sheets are reviewed and corrected over time, and reports from players are the most useful source of fixes.
When a player types something the sheet does not contain, an automatic referee decides whether it answers the prompt. Accepted answers count as Thin Air and are remembered, so the same answer gets the same verdict next time.
Why "Noillirk"?
Read it backwards. Krillion is a word game where you dive into the ocean, and the deeper you go, the better. Noillirk turns that idea upside down and sends you into the sky instead. Noillirk is an independent game. It is not made by or affiliated with krillion.io.
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