Noillirk answers: what’s public, what isn’t
There is no Noillirk answer list. Not on this page, not on the game’s site, not anywhere you can check. Noillirk reveals the top five of a board only after you guess and keeps the rest private on purpose, so any page offering you “today’s Noillirk answers” in full is inventing them.
What is public is better than a guessed board: the exact arithmetic behind every score, the band ladder a board is filed against, and the finished scoreboard of 337,842 real runs. That is enough to work out what a #1 answer looks like, without anyone pretending to have seen the board.
What we do publish
What a position on the board is worth
Five bands, and the board’s ten slots divided between them unevenly — the top slot is worth twice the fifth.
- #1 Answer Top of the board 100 pts
- Runner-up #2–#3 75 pts
- Top 5 #4–#5 50 pts
- Top 10 #6–#10 25 pts
- Off the Board Outside the ten 10 pts
Then the run weights itself. Each question is multiplied by where it sits — ×1 ×1 ×2 ×2 ×2 ×3 ×3 ×3 ×4 ×4 — so the same answer is worth four times more on question nine than on question one. A #1 Answer on the last two pays 400 points on its own; four #1 Answers across the first five questions pay less.
This is the one piece of arithmetic worth carrying into a run: 2500 is 25 × 100 , and it does not divide evenly into the ten questions. Being right on questions nine and ten is worth more than being right on the opening pair.
So what actually wins a board
A Noillirk board is not a survey. It is the operator’s fixed estimate of how 100 people would answer, marked “est.” on the result card. So the question is never “what is true?” but “what would a room of strangers say first?” — and that question has an answer you can reason about.
Answer at the level the prompt sets
“Name a Marvel Comics superhero” is not asking for your favourite. It is asking for the one on the poster. A hundred people answer at the level of the most recent thing they saw, so the board’s top is populated by the household names and its bottom by everyone else’s.
Say the first answer, not the second
Every time you upgrade an answer — pizza to Neapolitan pizza, a dog to an otterhound — you move down the board. The scoring rewards the reflex, and the reflex is the answer you would give in a lift before you had time to be interesting.
Beware the famous-obscure trap
Some answers exist only to prove you know something: the fourth most famous shark, the second most famous Monet. They are not rare, because everyone reaches for the same “clever” option, and they land below the plain answer they were meant to beat.
Put the thinking into questions nine and ten
With ×4 on the last two, a single #1 there is 400 points — 16% of the perfect score from one prompt. If you have thirty seconds to spend carefully, spend them at the end of the run, not the start.
The data backs the arithmetic
Across the 13 Dailies with a real field, the average score works out to between 49.0 and 73.6 points a question. On the band ladder that is the gap between Top 5 (50) and Runner-up ( 75) — the average run is a good answer, not the crowd’s first.
That is the shape of the game. Knowing a correct answer gets you into the top five comfortably; the last stretch to 2,500 is naming the most obvious one ten times running, and only 0.29% of the field managed it on the last closed day.
Noillirk answers: the questions people ask
Is there a Noillirk answer list anywhere?
Not publicly. Noillirk shows the top five of a prompt’s board only after you have guessed, and its archive pages print the ten questions with the heading “The ten questions (no answers)”. The site’s robots.txt disallows /api/ and /rpc/, so there is no feed to read either. Any site that prints a full top ten for a Noillirk prompt has guessed it.
Why does Noillirk only show the top five?
Because prompts come back. The game says the rest of the board “stays hidden so a prompt is still worth playing when it comes round again” — with a bank of 240 prompts and a Daily every day, a prompt you have already seen will return, and a public board would spoil it.
Can I see an old Daily’s answers now that it closed?
No. The archive lets you replay any past Daily with the same ten questions in the same order, and the day’s leaderboard shows every score — but neither reveals the board. Closed means closed.
What is a good Noillirk score?
Out of 2500. The daily average sits between 49 and 74 points a question, which is roughly 1,200–1,850 out of 2500 a run. On the last closed Daily 4% of the field finished on 2,000 or better, and 0.29% hit 2500.
How is Noillirk scored?
Five bands pay 100 / 75 / 50 / 25 / 10 points, and a question’s multiplier grows through the run: ×1 ×1 ×2 ×2 ×2 ×3 ×3 ×3 ×4 ×4, 25 in total. A perfect Daily is 25 × 100 = 2500. A pass or a timeout scores nothing at all.
Is Noillirk the same game as Krillion?
No — it is an independent game that inverts Krillion’s rule. Krillion pays for the rarest right answer; Noillirk pays for the most common one. Different prompts, different boards, no shared operator, and our Noillirk page covers the rest.