Krillion Recorded answers
196 recorded answers
How to approach it
Work by venue and by verb at the same time. Picture settings where you have stood and paid something small: a station platform, a shopping arcade, a launderette, a campsite shower block, a roadside stop, a pub with a back room. In each, ask what the coin actually released — a lock, a timer, a motor, a light, a portion. That question produces the mechanism rather than the object, and the mechanism is what you then dress in nouns. Keep wording at the level of function, since descriptions outscore trademarks. Then deliberately widen past entertainment into utility, comfort and retail, and finally into the obsolete: anything retired, regional or slightly absurd is fair game and usually rarer than the obvious choice.
Get a hint
Fix the shape of the target first: a small payment buys a slice of time or a measured portion, and from there the device works on its own.
A little more
Add function verbs one at a time — dispensing, timing, weighing, washing, heating, lighting, moving, playing, photographing — and let each verb suggest a different apparatus.
One step further
Push into the retired and the peculiar: fairground novelties, one-off contraptions and devices whose slot has since been swapped for a card reader all count.
Reveal answers 196
- Coin-operated typewriterDeep Cut85points
- Coin-operated water cannonDeep Cut85points
- Cotton candy vending machineDeep Cut85points
- Cricket arcade gameDeep Cut85points
- Diaper vending machineDeep Cut85points
- Drinking cup vending machineDeep Cut85points
- Egg vending machineDeep Cut85points
- Electric shock machineDeep Cut85points
- Electronic dartboardDeep Cut85points
- FascinationDeep Cut85points
- Film vending machineDeep Cut85points
- Flight insurance vending machineDeep Cut85points
- Flower vending machineDeep Cut85points
- French fry vending machineDeep Cut85points
- Fruit vending machineDeep Cut85points
- Golf ball dispenserDeep Cut85points
- Hair straightener vending machineDeep Cut85points
- Hamburger vending machineDeep Cut85points
- Honey vending machineDeep Cut85points
- Horse racing gameDeep Cut85points
- Hot dog vending machineDeep Cut85points
- Hot nuts machineDeep Cut85points
- Ice skate sharpenerDeep Cut85points
- Keno machineDeep Cut85points
- KinetoscopeDeep Cut85points
- Lighter fluid dispenserDeep Cut85points
- Lipstick machineDeep Cut85points
- Love testerDeep Cut85points
- Luggage cartDeep Cut85points
- Lung testerDeep Cut85points
- Magic Fingers vibrating bedDeep Cut85points
- Match vending machineDeep Cut85points
- Meal ticket machineDeep Cut85points
- Medallion pressDeep Cut85points
- Medicine vending machineDeep Cut85points
- Microfilm reader-printerDeep Cut85points
- Milk vending machineDeep Cut85points
- Motorhome service pointDeep Cut85points
- MutoscopeDeep Cut85points
- Name plate machineDeep Cut85points
- Noodle vending machineDeep Cut85points
- Omikuji machineDeep Cut85points
- Opera glass dispenserDeep Cut85points
- Orange juice vending machineDeep Cut85points
- PachislotDeep Cut85points
- PayazzoDeep Cut85points
- Peep show machineDeep Cut85points
- Pencil vending machineDeep Cut85points
- Perfume vending machineDeep Cut85points
- Phone card vending machineDeep Cut85points
Why these answers count
Almost two hundred entries were accepted, so the point spread measures inventiveness far more than correctness. The lone 100-point entry was a named novelty device made on the spot at a single attraction, so particular that virtually nobody else could have landed on the same wording. The wide 85-point band sits in the productive middle: utility variants, timed appliances, devices releasing very specific goods, coin-activated services attached to odd venues. Each describes something verifiable and unmistakable, yet few enough players thought of it that duplication stayed rare. The 60-point group rewards the answers that arrive first — the famous entertainments and the widely known service machines that hundreds of people type within the same minute. Nothing about those is wrong; they are simply common, and popularity is exactly what the scoring penalises. The practical lesson is that specificity and mild strangeness beat fame: a retired, regional or oddly narrow device separates you from the crowd, while the household-name example only confirms what everyone already wrote.