CARILLION · THE DRIVER’S HANDBOOK
How Carillion works
Seven prompts. Twenty-five seconds. A garage full of possible answers.
The idea
Every prompt in Carillion has many valid answers, and the game scores you on how unusual yours is. Name a Japanese car brand and almost everyone says Toyota. Say Mitsuoka and you drive a lot deeper. The prompts are about cars and the car world: brands, models, parts, racing, film cars, engineering and history.
How a drive works
Press Begin Descent on the title screen. No account or download is needed. A daily drive is seven prompts in order, the same seven for everyone that day. Each one starts with a three-second preview so you can read it, then you have twenty-five seconds to type one answer. Press Enter or GO to submit.
The garage and the levels
Your score is your depth. Every point takes you one floor further below the street, so a sixty-point answer parks you sixty floors down and seven perfect answers reach level B700, the vault. Depth accumulates across the whole drive, so later prompts start below where the previous one ended. The side wall shows facts about cars as you pass them.
The six rarity tiers
Answers fall into six tiers with fixed points. Commuter is ten points: the answer everyone blurts out. Too Clever is fifteen: the obscure answer that half the garage also thought of. Weekender is thirty, Collector is sixty, Barn Find is eighty-five, and One in a Carillion is one hundred. A blank or unrecognized answer scores zero.
What counts as a valid answer
An answer has to fit the whole prompt and match an entry the game knows about. If a prompt asks for a car brand from Italy, a city or a model will not score. Specific is fine as long as it still belongs: a body style, a brand, or a model name all work when that is what the prompt asks for.
Spelling and corrections
Capitalization, punctuation and accents are ignored, and common alternate names are accepted. If your spelling is close to a known answer, the game shows the correction before scoring it, and you press submit again to confirm or edit it. You can turn the preview off in Settings. Very short answers must match exactly so a guess is never silently rewritten.
When time runs out
If the timer ends with text in the box, that answer is checked automatically. A valid one still scores, and anything else is a miss for zero points. In the last three seconds the screen pulses and the clock ticks. Pausing to open a menu stops the clock, and the server keeps the timing, so reloading the page does not buy extra time.
Results and sharing
After round seven choose Exit to leave the garage. The results page shows your total, final level, a seven-round chart, your band from Commuter to One in a Carillion, and every round with its accepted answers so you can see what you missed. Copy your result as emoji plus score to share without spoiling the answers.
Daily, practice and streaks
The daily drive resets at midnight New York time and counts toward streaks and the comparison with other players. Practice drives are unlimited: each one draws seven questions your browser has not seen before, and they never change your daily score or streak. Your history lives in your browser; there are no accounts.
Where it comes from
Carillion is a car-themed fork of the MIT-licensed OpenKrillion and runs on Cloudflare. All questions, artwork and sounds in this fork are original.