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
- Coronation ballDeep Cut85points
- Crab ballDeep Cut85points
- Cramp ballDeep Cut85points
- Crawfish ballDeep Cut85points
- Cuttlefish ballDeep Cut85points
- Date ballDeep Cut85points
- Decanter cleaning ballDeep Cut85points
- DNA nanoballDeep Cut85points
- DorodangoDeep Cut85points
- Dosing ballDeep Cut85points
- Drag ballDeep Cut85points
- Dung ballDeep Cut85points
- EarthballDeep Cut85points
- EM mudballDeep Cut85points
- Embroidered ballDeep Cut85points
- Eraser ballDeep Cut85points
- Fabric softener ballDeep Cut85points
- Felt ballDeep Cut85points
- Fender ballDeep Cut85points
- Fibre ballDeep Cut85points
- Finial ballDeep Cut85points
- Fire extinguisher ballDeep Cut85points
- Fire pit ballDeep Cut85points
- Float ballDeep Cut85points
- Flower ballDeep Cut85points
- Frac ballDeep Cut85points
- Freshers' ballDeep Cut85points
- Gauze ballDeep Cut85points
- Gazing ballDeep Cut85points
- Grinding ballDeep Cut85points
- Gyro ballDeep Cut85points
- Haggis ballDeep Cut85points
- Ham ballDeep Cut85points
- Harmony ballDeep Cut85points
- Hay ballDeep Cut85points
- Headache ballDeep Cut85points
- HeelballDeep Cut85points
- Herbal compress ballDeep Cut85points
- Hitch ballDeep Cut85points
- Honey ballDeep Cut85points
- Honeycomb ballDeep Cut85points
- Hover ballDeep Cut85points
- Hundred days ballDeep Cut85points
- Hunt ballDeep Cut85points
- Ice cream ballDeep Cut85points
- Inaugural ballDeep Cut85points
- Ink ballDeep Cut85points
- Jacks ballDeep Cut85points
- Jolly BallDeep Cut85points
- Kibbeh 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.