Krillion Recorded answers
26 recorded answers
How to approach it
The productive method is a structured sweep, not free association. List sports by family — field games, court games, handball codes, equestrian ball games, table games and their adaptive equivalents — then ask what in each one actually makes contact with the ball. Record the contact object exactly as that sport names it; regional games often use one word for both game and tool, which is why an unfamiliar vocabulary pays. Deduplicate ruthlessly: a single implement appearing in four disciplines is still one entry, so extra sports add nothing unless they introduce new equipment. Finally rank the list by how many solvers would reach for it unprompted. Everyday objects and legal body contacts are cheap, safe picks; anything with a foreign or archaic name is where the survey's upper tier sits.
Get a hint
Start with the biggest sport families on the planet and work outward to regional and minority games, since a broad sweep of disciplines will surface names most players never consider.
A little more
Next, sort candidates by the kind of contact involved: something swung from a handle, something bound to the arm, or a limb the rules allow you to strike with in certain codes.
One step further
For the rarest tier, dig into historic folk sports, imported colonial-era pastimes and disability sport, where the equipment often carries a local name that no general solver would guess.
Reveal answers 26
- TamburelloOne in a Krillion100points
- BicycleDeep Cut85points
- BraccialeDeep Cut85points
- BroomDeep Cut85points
- HurleyDeep Cut85points
- PalaDeep Cut85points
- PowerchairDeep Cut85points
- Shinty stickDeep Cut85points
- ChestRare60points
- Cue ballRare60points
- FistRare60points
- ForearmRare60points
- HipRare60points
- KneeRare60points
- MalletRare60points
- ShoulderRare60points
- ThighRare60points
- CueSchooler30points
- FootSchooler30points
- HandSchooler30points
- HeadSchooler30points
- Hockey stickSchooler30points
- PaddleSchooler30points
- BatPlankton10points
- Golf clubPlankton10points
- RacketPlankton10points
Why these answers count
Only sixteen of the twenty-six recorded answers cleared sixty points, which tells you the survey sorted by how many people landed on an answer independently. The reflex picks formed the base of the band: broom, chest, cue ball, fist, forearm, hip, hurley, knee, shoulder and thigh all paid sixty. Note that body contact was accepted and that even a ball used to strike other balls qualified, so the compiler was generous about what counted but strict about rarity. The middle tier, at eighty-five, went to bicycle, bracciale, pala, powerchair and shinty stick, names that followers of particular codes recognise instantly and everyone else misses. The lone hundred-pointer, tamburello, sits at the far end because the sport and its tool share one word, so reaching it takes either specialised knowledge or a lucky guess. Breadth of sporting vocabulary is what pays here: the odd, local and adapted corners of the sporting world outscore the obvious by a wide margin.