Krillion Recorded answers
416 recorded answers
How to approach it
The wording does two things at once: it asks for a physical object and then removes the most obvious way of naming one. So the useful move is to ignore titles entirely and think in terms of function. Sweep domains one at a time — household administration, employment, law, medicine, transport, religion, hobbies, publishing, finance — and in each ask what paper object exists solely because someone has to record, prove, instruct or hand something over. Write down every candidate in plain descriptive form, then test it against the exclusion: if the phrase only means something with a specific title attached, it is out. Quantity matters early, but the score rewards the candidates that are real yet rarely said, so keep digging past the first ten obvious ones.
Get a hint
Start with the paper that exists because a procedure demands it: something issued to a person, kept by an organization or passed between hands at a counter.
A little more
Then widen to the publishing world, where the same physical form carries fiction, reference and instruction — think of the shape of the object rather than of any title on its cover.
One step further
Finally push into the odd corners: hobby and craft ephemera, ceremonial and religious volumes, specialist professional paperwork, and throwaway items printed for a single event.
Reveal answers 416
- Summit registerOne in a Krillion100points
- Abstract of titleDeep Cut85points
- Accident bookDeep Cut85points
- Accordion bookDeep Cut85points
- Adventure moduleDeep Cut85points
- AffidavitDeep Cut85points
- AhnenpassDeep Cut85points
- Aircraft checklistDeep Cut85points
- AnnualDeep Cut85points
- Apartheid pass bookDeep Cut85points
- Appraisal reportDeep Cut85points
- Approach platesDeep Cut85points
- Articles of associationDeep Cut85points
- Articles of incorporationDeep Cut85points
- Artist's bookDeep Cut85points
- Audit reportDeep Cut85points
- Audit working papersDeep Cut85points
- Autopsy reportDeep Cut85points
- Banknote albumDeep Cut85points
- Bankruptcy filingDeep Cut85points
- Bath bookDeep Cut85points
- Benefits bookletDeep Cut85points
- BestiaryDeep Cut85points
- BibliographyDeep Cut85points
- Bill of ladingDeep Cut85points
- Bill of quantitiesDeep Cut85points
- Bingo bookDeep Cut85points
- Birthday bookDeep Cut85points
- Board packDeep Cut85points
- Book of condolenceDeep Cut85points
- Book of quotationsDeep Cut85points
- Book of remembranceDeep Cut85points
- Book of ShadowsDeep Cut85points
- Boxer's record bookDeep Cut85points
- Brand guidelinesDeep Cut85points
- BreviaryDeep Cut85points
- Budget documentDeep Cut85points
- Busy bookDeep Cut85points
- BylawsDeep Cut85points
- Call sheetDeep Cut85points
- Care planDeep Cut85points
- CarnetDeep Cut85points
- Case studyDeep Cut85points
- CatechismDeep Cut85points
- CC&RsDeep Cut85points
- Census formDeep Cut85points
- Certificate of identityDeep Cut85points
- ChapbookDeep Cut85points
- Character sheetDeep Cut85points
- Charge sheetDeep Cut85points
Why these answers count
The scoring tracks obscurity within a very broad category, and the reveal shows it clearly. The single hundred-point answer, Summit register, is a genuine paper object that almost nobody thinks of outside mountaineering, so it sits alone at the top. The eighty-five-point band is where specialized vocabulary pays: Abstract of title, Aircraft checklist or Approach plates all describe real physical documents from narrow professional worlds, and each is precise enough that only someone who knows that world would produce it. Below that, the sixty-point tier is stuffed with the first things a player reaches for — the ordinary volumes and forms that any household or office could name in seconds. Nothing in the middle is wrong; the difference is entirely how quickly a typical player gets there. Rarity, not correctness, is what moves a valid answer up the board.