Krillocity Daily: How Today's Race Works and When It Resets

The daily race is the Krillocity everybody plays together. It is seven prompts at thirty seconds each, like a public race, except that the seven are the same for everyone in the world that day and your krill swims the Treasure Run alone. That makes it the one race you can hold up against everyone else's.

• 7 prompts, the same for everyone, 30 seconds each.
• 1 try a day, and each prompt is spent the moment it opens.
• 00:00 UTC is when a new daily starts.
• Today's board gives your exact place in the top ten, or your share of the day's racers below it.
• No tokens and no leaderboard points: the daily is raced for the day's standing alone.

1. Open playdailygames.net/krillocity.
2. The line under the title gives the day's number, such as The Daily Race #7, and the big key at the foot of the screen reads Start daily.
3. Press Start daily. The race opens at once, and the call goes READY, then 3, 2, 1, GO.
4. Type as many answers as you can for each prompt, pressing Enter or Swim after each one.

Each prompt shows for two seconds before its clock starts, so you can read it first. When its clock runs out, TIME! comes up, you see what your answers were worth, and Next prompt in counts you down to the next one.

The dailies are numbered from the first, which went out on 26 October 2026, so the number is how many days the daily has been running. The screenshot below was taken on Daily race #1.

You get one daily race a day, and each prompt is spent the moment its count-in begins. Leave in the middle, close the tab or lose your connection, and the prompt you were on counts as played, with whatever answers you had counted by then. Reloading does not buy time either: the server pins each prompt's clock the moment it deals it.

When you come back, the key reads Resume daily and goes straight on to the next prompt. If you left mid-prompt it waits for that prompt's clock to run out first, counting down as Resume in 9. Quit, on the race screen, takes two presses and warns you first that the prompt on screen will be spent.

Once all seven are played, the key becomes View results, which shows your race again without playing anything, with the countdown to the next daily under it.

One try is the server's rule, kept for each player. Signed in with a free Daily account, the try is your account's, so you can start it on your phone and finish it on your laptop, and a second device does not get a second try. Signed out, it belongs to the browser you raced in.

Want more today? Press Play multiplayer and join a room for a public race against up to fifteen others, as often as you like, or make a private race for friends. A public race, followed answer by answer shows how one plays out, and the private race guide covers racing people you know.

A new daily starts at 00:00 UTC every day. Where you are, that is:

• New York and Toronto: 8 pm, or 7 pm once daylight saving time ends on 1 November.
• Chicago: 7 pm, or 6 pm from 1 November.
• Los Angeles and Vancouver: 5 pm, or 4 pm from 1 November.
• London and Dublin: midnight, or 1 am once summer time starts again in March.
• Paris, Berlin and Madrid: 1 am, or 2 am from late March.
• India: 5:30 am.
• Tokyo: 9 am.
• Sydney and Melbourne: 11 am, or 10 am once daylight saving ends in April.

A try started just before the reset can run up to an hour into the next day, and a race takes under five minutes, so you will not lose one by starting late. The line under the title, such as The Daily Race #7, tells you which day's race is up.

We do not publish the daily's prompts or answers, and they are not hidden anywhere in the page. The server deals each prompt only once the one before it has run out its clock, so the only way to see today's seven is to race them.

They come from a pool of 2,723 prompts across 54 categories, shuffled once into a fixed order and dealt seven a day, the easiest of the seven first. No prompt comes back until the whole pool has been dealt, which takes more than 380 days.

Answers are judged as they are in a public race: against a bank of the answers people give, ranked by how often they give them, and by an AI judge for an answer the bank does not know, up to 12 a prompt. Once 5 of those are refused, the rest of that prompt's unknown answers are not judged, so typing nonsense quickly gets you nowhere. The tiers are the race's too, from 100 m for Plankton to 1,000 m for the top tier.

When you finish, your report shows the day's number, how far you swam and how many answers counted, then where your race stands among everyone who has finished today's:

• In the top ten, it gives your exact place, such as #2 today.
• Below that, once at least 100 verified finishes have been recorded, it draws a graph of those distances, counted in bands of 2,500 m, with your pin on it and the share of today's racers you swam further than.

Under that is a row for each prompt with the prompt itself, your best answers to it and how far it took you, and then today's top ten by name, each wearing their current avatar. The board counts each try once, at the finish, from the answers our server judged while you raced. It refreshes about every half minute, so a try finished a moment ago can take a little while to appear.

On the first day, 2,148 racers had finished by the time we wrote this. Most swam less than 2,500 m, and it took 7,800 m to make the top ten.

When you finish, Share today's race copies a result like this:

Krillocity 🦐 daily #1 · 1,850 m

12 answers in 7 prompts

Further than 54% of 2,148 racers today

Race today's prompts: https://playdailygames.net/krillocity

The result gives your distance, how many answers counted and where you stand among the day's racers. In the top ten, that line gives your place instead, such as #2 of 2,148 racers today. The prompts and your answers are never in the share, so you can post it before your friends have played.

• Race it in one sitting. A prompt you leave is spent, so start when you have five minutes to spare.
• Use the count-in. The card names the prompt's category over it. Two seconds is enough to pick the corner of it you will start in.
• Type the easy answers first. Every answer the game accepts swims you forward, however common, and the obvious ones are the quickest metres you will get.
• Then go looking for rare ones. A top-tier answer swims you 1,000 m, as far as ten Plankton answers.
• Keep typing. A refused answer costs only the seconds you spent typing it, and the same answer twice counts once, so there is nothing to lose by trying.

A shared daily turns a solo race into a contest with everyone who plays it that day, without anyone needing to be online at the same time, and a share card is enough to compare. Our piece on asynchronous competition explains why the format works so well.

There is a lot more on naming answers quickly in the strategy guide. Now go and race today's daily.