Krillion Recorded answers
419 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 419
- 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
- GazetteerDeep Cut85points
- Girdle bookDeep Cut85points
- Gold leaf bookDeep Cut85points
- GoshuinchoDeep Cut85points
- Gospel bookDeep Cut85points
- Guest directoryDeep Cut85points
- Health and safety planDeep Cut85points
- Health bookletDeep Cut85points
- Herbarium bookDeep Cut85points
- Household registration bookDeep Cut85points
- Identity bookletDeep Cut85points
- IEPDeep Cut85points
- Immigration papersDeep Cut85points
- IndictmentDeep Cut85points
- International Driving PermitDeep Cut85points
- InterrogatoriesDeep Cut85points
- Inventory reportDeep Cut85points
- Investigator's brochureDeep Cut85points
- JudgmentDeep Cut85points
- Knitting patternDeep Cut85points
- Laissez-passerDeep Cut85points
- Large-print bookDeep Cut85points
- LectionaryDeep Cut85points
- Legal briefDeep Cut85points
- Legal complaintDeep Cut85points
- Legal opinionDeep Cut85points
- Legislative billDeep Cut85points
- Lesson planDeep Cut85points
- Letter bookDeep Cut85points
- Letter of creditDeep Cut85points
- Liability waiverDeep Cut85points
- LibrettoDeep Cut85points
- Lift-the-flap bookDeep Cut85points
- Living willDeep Cut85points
- Livret de familleDeep Cut85points
- LookbookDeep Cut85points
- MachzorDeep Cut85points
- Magazine dummyDeep Cut85points
- ManifestDeep Cut85points
- ManifestoDeep 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.