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
  • AirbrushRare60points
  • Airplane air ventRare60points
  • Attic fanRare60points
  • Ball pumpRare60points
  • Balloon pumpRare60points
  • Bathroom fanRare60points
  • Bladeless fanRare60points
  • BlowerRare60points
  • Blower motorRare60points
  • Bonnet dryerRare60points
  • Bounce house blowerRare60points
  • Box fanRare60points
  • Bubble machineRare60points
  • Canned airRare60points
  • Car air ventRare60points
  • Car fanRare60points
  • Car heaterRare60points
  • Clip fanRare60points
  • Computer fanRare60points
  • Condensing unitRare60points
  • Convection ovenRare60points
  • CPAP machineRare60points
  • DehumidifierRare60points
  • Desk fanRare60points
  • Electric air dusterRare60points
  • Evaporative coolerRare60points
  • Exhaust fanRare60points
  • Fan heaterRare60points
  • Floor fanRare60points
  • FoghornRare60points
  • Folding fanRare60points
  • Food dehydratorRare60points
  • Foot pumpRare60points
  • FurnaceRare60points
  • Hand fanRare60points
  • Hand pumpRare60points
  • Handheld fanRare60points
  • Heat gunRare60points
  • Heat pumpRare60points
  • Hot air brushRare60points
  • Hot air popcorn popperRare60points
  • HovercraftRare60points
  • HumidifierRare60points
  • Industrial fanRare60points
  • Inflatable tube manRare60points
  • Jet engineRare60points
  • Laptop cooling padRare60points
  • Misting fanRare60points
  • Nail dryerRare60points
  • NebulizerRare60points

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