Name a device that blows air

October 20, 2026 · Daily Dive #97

Explore 337 recorded answers and their points for question 4 on October 20, 2026.

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337 recorded names on October 20, 2026, 239 at 85 or higher. The highest recorded score on this question is 100.

Sweep through the places where moving air is a job rather than a comfort: workshops, kitchens, farms, hospitals and stages each hide one. Any powered appliance, machine or installation whose main purpose is to move air counts; passive openings and things that merely leak air do not.

337 recorded answers239 at 85+ points100 highest recorded points
  • One in a Krillion1100 pts
  • Deep Cut23885 pts
  • Rare8560 pts
  • Schooler930 pts
  • Plankton410 pts
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Recorded answers

337 recorded answers

How to approach it

Treat the prompt as a category with a very wide mouth and a long tail. Begin by listing the everyday contexts where air movement is the function: comfort at home, cleaning, drying, cooking, inflating, cooling electronics. For each context, ask what the powered object is called in that setting, and write down the plain, generic name first. Then push into trades and hobbies, because each profession tends to own a purpose-built version of the same idea. Check every candidate against two tests: is it a device, and is blowing or moving air its principal job rather than a side effect? Keep the ones that pass, order them from common to obscure, and submit the most specific names you can defend, since precision is what separates a high score from a low one.

Get a hint

Start with the rooms of an ordinary home and ask which appliances exist purely to set air in motion, then widen the search outward from there.

A little more

Move on to workplaces: assembly lines, kitchens, farms, laboratories and tunnels all rely on powered equipment that pushes or pulls air for a living.

One step further

Now hunt for the narrow, specialised versions built for a single trade or hobby — drying, cooling, lifting, sealing, inflating or clearing — where moving air is the entire point of the machine.

Reveal answers 337
  • Jet packDeep Cut85points
  • Laboratory incubatorDeep Cut85points
  • Laminar airflow ceilingDeep Cut85points
  • Laminar flow hoodDeep Cut85points
  • Lap organDeep Cut85points
  • Lift fanDeep Cut85points
  • Lottery ball machineDeep Cut85points
  • Low air loss mattressDeep Cut85points
  • Lumber kilnDeep Cut85points
  • Mine fanDeep Cut85points
  • Mist blowerDeep Cut85points
  • Money blowing machineDeep Cut85points
  • MotorjetDeep Cut85points
  • Musette de courDeep Cut85points
  • Northumbrian smallpipesDeep Cut85points
  • Nut sweeperDeep Cut85points
  • OrchestrionDeep Cut85points
  • Organ blowerDeep Cut85points
  • Over-the-range microwaveDeep Cut85points
  • Ozone generatorDeep Cut85points
  • PanharmoniconDeep Cut85points
  • PAPRDeep Cut85points
  • ParamotorDeep Cut85points
  • Pasta dryerDeep Cut85points
  • Pastoral pipesDeep Cut85points
  • Pellet grillDeep Cut85points
  • Pellet stoveDeep Cut85points
  • Pet dryerDeep Cut85points
  • Phone coolerDeep Cut85points
  • Piezoelectric cooling jetDeep Cut85points
  • Plastic welderDeep Cut85points
  • Plug-in air freshener with fanDeep Cut85points
  • Pneumatic conveyorDeep Cut85points
  • Pneumatic otoscopeDeep Cut85points
  • Pneumatic tube systemDeep Cut85points
  • Politzer bagDeep Cut85points
  • Portable clothes dryerDeep Cut85points
  • Positive input ventilation unitDeep Cut85points
  • PPV fanDeep Cut85points
  • Pre-conditioned air unitDeep Cut85points
  • ProoferDeep Cut85points
  • PropfanDeep Cut85points
  • PTACDeep Cut85points
  • Pulse detonation engineDeep Cut85points
  • PulsejetDeep Cut85points
  • PunkahDeep Cut85points
  • Rack ovenDeep Cut85points
  • Radiator booster fanDeep Cut85points
  • Radon fanDeep Cut85points
  • RamjetDeep Cut85points

Why these answers count

Scoring tracks how specific and how unexpected the named object is. The single hundred-point entry sits alone at the summit because almost nobody reaches for an agricultural cleaning machine when asked about moving air. The broad eighty-five band is crowded with purpose-built equipment from specialised trades and hobbies: an air amplifier, an air knife, an air curtain, an air spade or an air-jet loom all describe a real device with a defined job, and each earns full credit without being obvious. Answers in the sixty-point band are usually correct but familiar, the sort of thing a player types in the first ten seconds. Anything vaguer, or a component that merely happens to sit inside a larger machine, tends to fall below the threshold or be rejected outright. So the practical lesson is to trade the first word that comes to mind for the most precise trade term you can justify.

Recorded from the game’s published reveal · Source · Checked 20 Oct, 04:00 UTC

Names and scores reflect the linked dated reveal. The original game makes the final decision on live acceptance. Editorial policy