Krillion Recorded answers
357 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 357
- Splat ballDeep Cut85points
- Spray ballDeep Cut85points
- Stink ballDeep Cut85points
- Stone ballDeep Cut85points
- Stuffing ballDeep Cut85points
- Surprise ballDeep Cut85points
- Sweet potato ballDeep Cut85points
- Sweetgum ballDeep Cut85points
- Tamarind ballDeep Cut85points
- Tank ballDeep Cut85points
- Tar ballDeep Cut85points
- Taro ballDeep Cut85points
- Teething ballDeep Cut85points
- Temari ballDeep Cut85points
- Termite ballDeep Cut85points
- Test ballDeep Cut85points
- Tofu ballDeep Cut85points
- Toning ballDeep Cut85points
- Tooling ballDeep Cut85points
- Topiary ballDeep Cut85points
- Treat ballDeep Cut85points
- TypeballDeep Cut85points
- Valentine's ballDeep Cut85points
- Velcro ballDeep Cut85points
- Viennese ballDeep Cut85points
- Wall ballDeep Cut85points
- Water BalzDeep Cut85points
- Water bouncing ballDeep Cut85points
- Willow ballDeep Cut85points
- Winter ballDeep Cut85points
- Witch ballDeep Cut85points
- Wonder BallDeep Cut85points
- Worm ballDeep Cut85points
- Yam ballDeep Cut85points
- Yule BallDeep Cut85points
- Zombie ballDeep Cut85points
- Zoom ballDeep Cut85points
- Ball and chainRare60points
- Ball of stringRare60points
- Ball of the footRare60points
- Ball-peen hammerRare60points
- Ballpoint pen ballRare60points
- Baoding ballsRare60points
- Bean bag ballRare60points
- Beef ballRare60points
- Beer widgetRare60points
- Bingo ballRare60points
- Blender ballRare60points
- Bosu ballRare60points
- Cake ballRare60points
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.