Krillion 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
- Rear door heat exchangerDeep Cut85points
- Reflow ovenDeep Cut85points
- Regal (organ)Deep Cut85points
- Register booster fanDeep Cut85points
- Rocket blowerDeep Cut85points
- Rooftop unitDeep Cut85points
- Rotary dryerDeep Cut85points
- Scottish smallpipesDeep Cut85points
- Sequential compression deviceDeep Cut85points
- Shruti boxDeep Cut85points
- Silk flame effectDeep Cut85points
- SkiErgDeep Cut85points
- Smog pumpDeep Cut85points
- Smoke control fanDeep Cut85points
- Snow gunDeep Cut85points
- SootblowerDeep Cut85points
- Spa blowerDeep Cut85points
- Spray dryerDeep Cut85points
- Spray tan machineDeep Cut85points
- Steam closetDeep Cut85points
- Stomp rocketDeep Cut85points
- Stove fanDeep Cut85points
- Sugar pumpDeep Cut85points
- Tea dryerDeep Cut85points
- Tea withering troughDeep Cut85points
- Toe-kick heaterDeep Cut85points
- Tray dryerDeep Cut85points
- TrompeDeep Cut85points
- TurbofanDeep Cut85points
- TurbopropDeep Cut85points
- TuyereDeep Cut85points
- Uilleann pipesDeep Cut85points
- Unit heaterDeep Cut85points
- Unit ventilatorDeep Cut85points
- Vertical wind tunnelDeep Cut85points
- Vortex tubeDeep Cut85points
- Wall heaterDeep Cut85points
- Washer-dryerDeep Cut85points
- Wig dryerDeep Cut85points
- AccordionRare60points
- Air bikeRare60points
- Air handlerRare60points
- Air hockey tableRare60points
- Air hornRare60points
- Air mattress pumpRare60points
- Air purifierRare60points
- Air straightenerRare60points
- Air ventRare60points
- Air-puff tonometerRare60points
- AirboatRare60points
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.