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
- CharterDeep Cut85points
- Closing documentsDeep Cut85points
- Cloth bookDeep Cut85points
- Code of conductDeep Cut85points
- CodebookDeep Cut85points
- Collected lettersDeep Cut85points
- Commonplace bookDeep Cut85points
- Communication bookDeep Cut85points
- Complaints bookDeep Cut85points
- Comprehensive planDeep Cut85points
- ConcordanceDeep Cut85points
- Conference proceedingsDeep Cut85points
- Consent formDeep Cut85points
- CordelDeep Cut85points
- Court filingDeep Cut85points
- Court orderDeep Cut85points
- Court transcriptDeep Cut85points
- Curriculum guideDeep Cut85points
- Dance cardDeep Cut85points
- Data bookDeep Cut85points
- Delivery bookDeep Cut85points
- Deposit bookDeep Cut85points
- DepositionDeep Cut85points
- Discharge summaryDeep Cut85points
- Display bookDeep Cut85points
- DocketDeep Cut85points
- Driving licence bookletDeep Cut85points
- Dues bookDeep Cut85points
- Duplicate bookDeep Cut85points
- Electoral rollDeep Cut85points
- Emergency planDeep Cut85points
- Employment record bookDeep Cut85points
- EncyclicalDeep Cut85points
- End-user license agreementDeep Cut85points
- Environmental impact statementDeep Cut85points
- Estimate bookDeep Cut85points
- Executive orderDeep Cut85points
- Explanation of benefitsDeep Cut85points
- Fake bookDeep Cut85points
- Fan deckDeep Cut85points
- Film treatmentDeep Cut85points
- Financial statementsDeep Cut85points
- Firearm certificateDeep Cut85points
- First Information ReportDeep Cut85points
- Flash bookDeep Cut85points
- Food stamp bookletDeep Cut85points
- Formula bookletDeep Cut85points
- FormularyDeep Cut85points
- Galley proofDeep Cut85points
- GazetteDeep 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.