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
- Piso WiFiDeep Cut85points
- Pizza vending machineDeep Cut85points
- Popcorn vending machineDeep Cut85points
- Postcard vending machineDeep Cut85points
- Potato vending machineDeep Cut85points
- Quiz machineDeep Cut85points
- Razor blade dispenserDeep Cut85points
- Reflex testerDeep Cut85points
- Rice vending machineDeep Cut85points
- Rock-paper-scissors machineDeep Cut85points
- Roll-down gameDeep Cut85points
- Roulette machineDeep Cut85points
- Sausage vending machineDeep Cut85points
- Shoe shine machineDeep Cut85points
- Shuffleboard tableDeep Cut85points
- Simulator rideDeep Cut85points
- Smart ballDeep Cut85points
- Soccer arcade gameDeep Cut85points
- Stamp machineDeep Cut85points
- Syringe vending machineDeep Cut85points
- ThéâtrophoneDeep Cut85points
- Tic-tac-toe chickenDeep Cut85points
- Tire shine machineDeep Cut85points
- Toast vending machineDeep Cut85points
- Toilet paper vending machineDeep Cut85points
- Towel vending machineDeep Cut85points
- Trade stimulatorDeep Cut85points
- Umbrella vending machineDeep Cut85points
- Upholstery shampoo machineDeep Cut85points
- Vegetable vending machineDeep Cut85points
- Video bingo machineDeep Cut85points
- Video jukeboxDeep Cut85points
- Voice recording boothDeep Cut85points
- Votive candle machineDeep Cut85points
- Air pumpRare60points
- Basketball arcade gameRare60points
- Batting cage pitching machineRare60points
- Boxing machineRare60points
- Capsule toy machineRare60points
- Car-wash vacuumRare60points
- Cigarette machineRare60points
- Coffee vending machineRare60points
- Coin drop gameRare60points
- Coin lockerRare60points
- Coin pusherRare60points
- Coin-operated binocularsRare60points
- Coin-operated car washRare60points
- Coin-operated karaoke machineRare60points
- Coin-operated photocopierRare60points
- Coin-operated scaleRare60points
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.