Krillion Recorded answers
1,148 recorded answers
How to approach it
The reliable route is to sweep by domain rather than by memory. List the places where a rotating edge does real work: kitchens, workshops, garages, gardens, farms, building sites, factories, hospitals, ports, airfields and fairgrounds. Inside each domain, walk through the machines you have actually seen and say what the spinning part is doing, whether it slices, shreds, lifts, pushes air, drives a hull, grinds, polishes or simply puts on a show. Write down every candidate, however ordinary, and only then judge whether the rotating element is genuinely a blade rather than a part that merely turns without cutting. Concrete compound names almost always beat bare generic words, so once a domain is exhausted, push toward the narrower variants and the specialised versions of whatever you have already found.
Get a hint
Start with ordinary rooms and workshops: anything that moves air, cuts material or prepares food is a candidate, because a turning edge hides inside plenty of unremarkable housings.
A little more
Then climb in scale toward vehicles and vessels of every kind, and on to farm, garden and construction equipment, where the rotating part is usually tucked behind a guard or under a cover.
One step further
Finish with the odd corners: surgical and medical instruments, toys, stage and festive effects, industrial processing lines, and the specialised machines that exist for one narrow job only.
Reveal answers 1,148
- Insulation blowerDeep Cut85points
- InterceptorDeep Cut85points
- Intermeshing-rotor helicopterDeep Cut85points
- InverterDeep Cut85points
- IroncladDeep Cut85points
- Jamb sawDeep Cut85points
- Jerky slicerDeep Cut85points
- Jet boatDeep Cut85points
- Jet dryerDeep Cut85points
- Jet fanDeep Cut85points
- Jet suitDeep Cut85points
- JetpackDeep Cut85points
- Joint support shipDeep Cut85points
- JointerDeep Cut85points
- Jon boatDeep Cut85points
- KaibōkanDeep Cut85points
- Kaplan turbineDeep Cut85points
- KegeratorDeep Cut85points
- Kinetic wind sculptureDeep Cut85points
- KlotokDeep Cut85points
- Knife millDeep Cut85points
- Laboratory incubatorDeep Cut85points
- Laminar airflow ceilingDeep Cut85points
- Laminar flow hoodDeep Cut85points
- Landing craftDeep Cut85points
- Landing craft air cushionDeep Cut85points
- Landing shipDeep Cut85points
- Lapidary sawDeep Cut85points
- Laptop cooling padDeep Cut85points
- Lattice cutterDeep Cut85points
- Leaf mulcherDeep Cut85points
- Leaf vacuum truckDeep Cut85points
- Leather skiving machineDeep Cut85points
- Leather splitting machineDeep Cut85points
- LEG carrierDeep Cut85points
- Liaison aircraftDeep Cut85points
- LifeboatDeep Cut85points
- Lift fanDeep Cut85points
- LiftboatDeep Cut85points
- Light aircraft carrierDeep Cut85points
- Light combat aircraftDeep Cut85points
- Light cruiserDeep Cut85points
- Light-sport aircraftDeep Cut85points
- Light-up spinner toyDeep Cut85points
- Lighter aboard shipDeep Cut85points
- Littoral combat shipDeep Cut85points
- Liveaboard dive boatDeep Cut85points
- Livestock carrierDeep Cut85points
- LNG carrierDeep Cut85points
- Lobster boatDeep Cut85points
Why these answers count
The board is unusually flat. Of 1138 recorded answers, 1101 reached at least sixty points, and 1009 of those sat on exactly 85; only Aerosani, at 100, broke away from the pack. That tells you rarity barely paid here. What separated the top band from everything below was specificity rather than obscurity: broad, bare words scored modestly, while anything named as a precise machine or a compound phrase landed in the 85 group almost automatically. A 3D printer, an air hockey table and an aerial saw all earned the same 85 despite belonging to completely unrelated worlds. Ninety-one answers settled for 60, presumably the plainer or more loosely justified picks. Judges clearly rewarded a recognisable object whose blade truly turns, so the safe route into the top band was to be concrete, technical and unambiguous instead of chasing one exotic outlier.