Name a space mission or program

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25-second pick · +100

Zond One in a Krillion

4 letters · 1 word · ~2s to type · 88 accepted answers on the sheet

If the first word feels too easy, it probably scores 10. We would type Zond: One in a Krillion, +100, 4 letters, about 2 seconds on a keyboard. Do not burn the 25 seconds on Apollo, Apollo 11, or Artemis — those are Plankton. It is also the One in a Krillion on this sheet, so the rare pick and the typeable pick are the same.

Skip Apollo · Apollo 11 · Artemis

Hints

Hint 1. 88 accepted answers. A strong pick is a single word, about 4 letters.

Hint 2 — a solid, typeable answer

Cassini

Hint 3 — a rare answer

Zond · 100 pts

Best safe pick
Zond One in a Krillion 100 pts

Ranked by rarity × how easy it is to type in 25 seconds. Too Clever answers are treated as risky.

Best rare answers

  • Zond 100 pts · One in a Krillion
  • Buran 85 pts · Deep Cut
  • Chandra 85 pts · Deep Cut
  • Chang'e 85 pts · Deep Cut
  • DART 85 pts · Deep Cut
  • Dawn 85 pts · Deep Cut
  • ExoMars 85 pts · Deep Cut
  • Gaia 85 pts · Deep Cut

Strong alternatives

  • Cassini 60 pts
  • Challenger 60 pts
  • Columbia 60 pts
  • Curiosity 60 pts
  • Galileo 60 pts
  • Gemini 60 pts
  • Juno 60 pts
  • Kepler 60 pts

Avoid — Plankton

Everyone else will type these. Ten points is a surface skim.

  • Apollo 10
  • Apollo 11 10
  • Artemis 10

Public accepted list

Same buckets the game published. We do not re-grade. The pick above is the plan; this block is the record.

Prompt 1 of 1

Name a space mission or program

● One in a Krillion · 1 ● Deep Cut · 56 ● Rare · 19 ● Schooler · 8 ● Too Clever · 1 ● Plankton · 3
One in a Krillion +100 1 answer — tap to reveal
  • Zond +100
Deep Cut +85 56 answers — tap to reveal
  • Apollo-Soyuz +85
  • BepiColombo +85
  • Blue Ghost +85
  • Buran +85
  • Chandra +85
  • Chandrayaan +85
  • Chang'e +85
  • Constellation +85
  • Crew Dragon +85
  • DART +85
  • Dawn +85
  • Deep Impact +85
  • Europa Clipper +85
  • ExoMars +85
  • Explorer 1 +85
  • Gaia +85
  • Genesis +85
  • Hayabusa +85
  • Ingenuity +85
  • InSight +85
  • Inspiration4 +85
  • JUICE +85
  • Lucy +85
  • Luna +85
  • Lunar Gateway +85
  • Magellan +85
  • Mangalyaan +85
  • Mariner +85
  • Mars Express +85
  • MAVEN +85
  • Messenger +85
  • New Shepard +85
  • Odysseus +85
  • Orion +85
  • OSIRIS-REx +85
  • Parker Solar Probe +85
  • Pathfinder +85
  • Psyche +85
  • Ranger +85
  • Rosetta +85
  • Salyut +85
  • Shenzhou +85
  • SOHO +85
  • Spirit +85
  • Spitzer +85
  • Stardust +85
  • Starliner +85
  • Surveyor +85
  • TESS +85
  • Tiangong +85
  • Tianwen +85
  • Ulysses +85
  • Vanguard +85
  • Vega +85
  • Venera +85
  • Voskhod +85
Rare +60 19 answers — tap to reveal
  • Cassini +60
  • Challenger +60
  • Columbia +60
  • Curiosity +60
  • Galileo +60
  • Gemini +60
  • Juno +60
  • Kepler +60
  • Mercury +60
  • Mir +60
  • New Horizons +60
  • Opportunity +60
  • Perseverance +60
  • Pioneer +60
  • Skylab +60
  • Soyuz +60
  • Starlink +60
  • Starship +60
  • Viking +60
Schooler +30 8 answers — tap to reveal
  • Apollo 13 +30
  • Hubble +30
  • International Space Station +30
  • James Webb +30
  • Mars Rover +30
  • Space Shuttle +30
  • Sputnik +30
  • Voyager +30
Too Clever +15 1 answer — tap to reveal
  • Vostok +15
Plankton +10 3 answers — tap to reveal
  • Apollo +10
  • Apollo 11 +10
  • Artemis +10