Krillion Recorded answers
348 recorded answers
How to approach it
The productive route is systematic rather than associative. Draw up a list of domains one at a time — manufacturing, medicine, cookery, ceremonies, clothing, gardening, toys, religion, transport — and for each, force out three or four rounded objects that plausibly carry the name. Write down compounds as well as single words, since the phrasing often hides in a modifier plus the target word. Then prune: strike anything used in a sport, a game with winners, or physical training, and strike brand names and fiction. Keep the entries you can define in one clause, because a term you can gloss is a term the reveal can also list. Finally, rank what remains by how rarely you have heard it and submit the strangest defensible items first. Volume matters less than precision.
Get a hint
Start from the shape rather than the activity: a ball is any mass worked into a round form, so sweep through trades, household objects, ceremonies and the natural world.
A little more
Move room by room mentally, then trade by trade — workshop, kitchen, laboratory, garden, wardrobe, celebration — and ask what rounded object in each of those places carries that name.
One step further
Aim for the obscure end: technical vocabulary from engineering and anatomy, old ceremonial names and regional words for small round portions all score far better than the everyday rounded objects anyone could list.
Reveal answers 348
- Time ballOne in a Krillion100points
- Activity ballDeep Cut85points
- Aniseed ballDeep Cut85points
- Antenna ballDeep Cut85points
- Bachelor and spinster ballDeep Cut85points
- Bagatelle ballDeep Cut85points
- Bait ballDeep Cut85points
- Bal blancDeep Cut85points
- Ball lensDeep Cut85points
- Ball lightningDeep Cut85points
- Ball of the hipDeep Cut85points
- Ball of the shoulderDeep Cut85points
- Ball of the thumbDeep Cut85points
- Ball sinkerDeep Cut85points
- Ballot ballDeep Cut85points
- Barley ballDeep Cut85points
- Bead ballDeep Cut85points
- BeautillionDeep Cut85points
- Bee ballDeep Cut85points
- Billy ballsDeep Cut85points
- Bio ballDeep Cut85points
- Bird toy ballDeep Cut85points
- BitterballenDeep Cut85points
- Black and white ballDeep Cut85points
- Blooming tea ballDeep Cut85points
- BlowballDeep Cut85points
- Booger ballDeep Cut85points
- Boudin ballDeep Cut85points
- Bourbon ballDeep Cut85points
- Brandy ballDeep Cut85points
- Breathing ballDeep Cut85points
- Brinell ballDeep Cut85points
- Bubble ballDeep Cut85points
- BuckyballDeep Cut85points
- Bumble BallDeep Cut85points
- Butter ballDeep Cut85points
- ButtonballDeep Cut85points
- Cassava ballDeep Cut85points
- Cedar ballDeep Cut85points
- Check ballDeep Cut85points
- Chicken rice ballDeep Cut85points
- Chrome ballDeep Cut85points
- Circus ballDeep Cut85points
- Coal ballDeep Cut85points
- Codfish ballDeep Cut85points
- Coffee ballDeep Cut85points
- Commemoration ballDeep Cut85points
- Concrete ballDeep Cut85points
- Confetti ballDeep Cut85points
- Corona ballDeep Cut85points
Why these answers count
The scoring curve is steep at the top and flat in the middle, which tells you rarity beats volume. A single entry took the full 100 points — Time ball, the descending sphere that drops to mark noon — and it is exactly the kind of answer the reveal rewards: a real, dictionary-level sense of the word that almost nobody reaches for. The 221 entries sitting at 85 points are the same species, one notch less surprising: scientific and technical compounds such as Ball lightning and Buckyball, ceremonial and scholarly terms such as Ballot ball, and borrowed words such as Dorodango all earned the second tier. The 90 answers at 60 points were evidently the obvious end of the spectrum — round objects anyone could name in ten seconds. Nothing here rewards writing down every sphere in the house; the points track how far your answer sits from the first thing a hundred people would say. When two candidates feel equally valid, submit the one you had to look up, because obscurity that can still be defined is what the top band is made of.