Krillion Recorded answers
353 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 353
- Poi ballDeep Cut85points
- Policemen's ballDeep Cut85points
- Pollen ballDeep Cut85points
- Pomander ballDeep Cut85points
- Pool filter ballDeep Cut85points
- Pork ballDeep Cut85points
- Prawn ballDeep Cut85points
- Prism ballDeep Cut85points
- Puffed rice ballDeep Cut85points
- Puffer ballDeep Cut85points
- Punching ballDeep Cut85points
- Purity ballDeep Cut85points
- Rag ballDeep Cut85points
- Ragi ballDeep Cut85points
- Rattan ballDeep Cut85points
- Rattle ballDeep Cut85points
- Reaction ballDeep Cut85points
- Reef ballDeep Cut85points
- Reflex ballDeep Cut85points
- Regency ballDeep Cut85points
- RemembrallDeep Cut85points
- Ribbon ballDeep Cut85points
- Robot ballDeep Cut85points
- RollerballDeep Cut85points
- Rope ballDeep Cut85points
- Ruby ballDeep Cut85points
- Sand ballDeep Cut85points
- Sandy stiltballDeep Cut85points
- Sauerkraut ballDeep Cut85points
- Sausage ballDeep Cut85points
- Scioptic ballDeep Cut85points
- Scum ballDeep Cut85points
- Sea ballDeep Cut85points
- Sewer ballDeep Cut85points
- Shade ballDeep Cut85points
- Shower filter ballDeep Cut85points
- Shrapnel ballDeep Cut85points
- Signal ballDeep Cut85points
- Slam ballDeep Cut85points
- Smash BallDeep Cut85points
- Smoke ballDeep Cut85points
- Smut ballDeep Cut85points
- Sneaker ballDeep Cut85points
- Snuffle ballDeep Cut85points
- Soap ballDeep Cut85points
- Solder ballDeep Cut85points
- Soot ballDeep Cut85points
- Sour ballDeep Cut85points
- Splash ballDeep Cut85points
- Splat 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.