Where past games live
The official site links to an archive at Krillion.io/archive. The publisher controls which games are available and any account or access requirements. Those conditions can change without notice, so read the archive page itself rather than a description of it, including this one. We do not host an official historical answer database or claim that an old reveal is a current daily solution.
Access is worth checking rather than assuming. If a past round sits behind a paid tier in your region, that is the publisher's decision to make, and it may differ from what an older page describes. If you cannot reach a round, the free access guide sets out the legitimate routes and says plainly which ones we do not offer.
What a past prompt is genuinely useful for
A past prompt is a rehearsal. It gives you a category and a boundary with no clock attached, so you can work on the part of a dive that usually fails under time: recalling a second branch of a category instead of the first famous example. Take a prompt from a category you find difficult and give yourself no time limit.
Use it to practise a weakness rather than to collect names. If film prompts defeat you, work one slowly and write down the route you used to reach each candidate. If places defeat you, move around a remembered map in a fixed order instead. When the round you want sits behind a paywall, invent an exercise in the same category; the practice is the movement, not the official wording. The themed packs guide describes how those categories differ, and the one in a krillion guide explains why a standout choice comes from a wider search.
Why an old answer list is a poor study aid
An answer list records one acceptable name and discards the question that produced it. Studied that way, you learn to recognise a word rather than to search a category, and recognition does not transfer to a prompt whose wording differs by a single qualifier. The useful part of a past dive is the wording: what kind of thing it asked for, and which restrictions narrowed the field.
A list also flattens the difference between an answer that was accepted and one that merely sounds plausible, because it shows a name without showing why the name fits. If you want a study aid, keep the prompt and your own reasoning, and leave the name out. The hints page builds the same habit without a reveal.
Review the decision, not just the score
Before looking up an answer, write down what the prompt actually requested. Was it a place, a person, an object, or a work? Note any restriction on date, geography, spelling, or membership, then compare the answer you chose with the exact boundary. A plausible association is not always a valid example.
Next, identify the route you used to recall it. A narrow route such as a region, an era, or a particular series is easier to practice than the vague instruction to be more original. Keep one clear example that fits the category and a second example reached by a different route, because the second is evidence that your recall is not simply a reflex. Avoid treating past point values as promises for future games, since live validation and scoring remain with the official publisher.
Three questions to ask about a past dive
Three questions are enough to turn a finished round into practice. First, what exactly did the prompt ask for, in one sentence you could read aloud? Second, which route produced your answer, and could you deliberately use that route again? Third, what is one other candidate from a different branch of the same category?
Answer them on paper while the round is still fresh, because the reasoning fades faster than the result does. If you cannot answer the first question, the difficulty was interpretation rather than knowledge, and studying a list will not fix it. If you can answer the second but not the third, your recall is narrow, and the remedy is to change cues rather than to try harder. The walkthrough covers that routine in full.
A small review habit
Keep a personal note with three columns: the prompt boundary, my first thought, and a different recall route. Three columns are enough for a notebook page, and the middle one matters most, because your first thought is the habit you are trying to observe. Write the note while the round is fresh, and keep it short enough that you will actually repeat it.
After a week or two, read the notes as a whole rather than one line at a time. Patterns appear in a column and rarely in a single row: the same qualifier skipped, the same famous example reached for, the same branch of a category never visited. Choose one adjustment and keep it for several rounds before judging it. The unlimited guide covers practising across repeat rounds, and the tiers guide explains how to read the feedback you receive.
Why we do not mirror the archive
We do not host, copy, or reconstruct the archive, and we do not publish a historical answer database. Two reasons decide it. We have no verified source for past answers, so anything we listed would be invented. A copy would also freeze one moment of a publisher's product and then drift out of date while still looking authoritative.
That is a deliberate limit rather than an oversight, and it means this page cannot tell you what any past prompt accepted. What it can do is help you read a past dive properly, which is the part that improves your next one. For official content, access, or results, the publisher's own pages are the only place that can answer you. The about page sets out the same boundary for the rest of this site.