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
- Proxy statementDeep Cut85points
- PsalterDeep Cut85points
- Race cardDeep Cut85points
- Rap sheetDeep Cut85points
- Ration bookDeep Cut85points
- Re-entry permitDeep Cut85points
- Reading logDeep Cut85points
- Recipe journalDeep Cut85points
- Refugee travel documentDeep Cut85points
- Regulations bookletDeep Cut85points
- Rent bookDeep Cut85points
- Research protocolDeep Cut85points
- Reservation bookDeep Cut85points
- Risk assessmentDeep Cut85points
- RoadbookDeep Cut85points
- Safety data sheetDeep Cut85points
- Saver bookDeep Cut85points
- Scratch-and-sniff bookDeep Cut85points
- Seaman's bookDeep Cut85points
- SEC filingDeep Cut85points
- Seller's disclosureDeep Cut85points
- Series bibleDeep Cut85points
- Service bookDeep Cut85points
- Service recordDeep Cut85points
- Short story collectionDeep Cut85points
- SiddurDeep Cut85points
- Sound bookDeep Cut85points
- Spec bookDeep Cut85points
- Stamp passportDeep Cut85points
- Standards documentDeep Cut85points
- Statute bookDeep Cut85points
- Story paperDeep Cut85points
- StoryboardDeep Cut85points
- StudbookDeep Cut85points
- Student fileDeep Cut85points
- Student record bookDeep Cut85points
- Style guideDeep Cut85points
- SubpoenaDeep Cut85points
- SummonsDeep Cut85points
- Swatch bookDeep Cut85points
- Tally bookDeep Cut85points
- Tarot guidebookDeep Cut85points
- Technical specificationDeep Cut85points
- Tender documentDeep Cut85points
- Term paperDeep Cut85points
- Term sheetDeep Cut85points
- Tide tableDeep Cut85points
- Tijuana bibleDeep Cut85points
- Time bookDeep Cut85points
- Touch-and-feel bookDeep 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.