Krillion Recorded answers
1,388 recorded answers
How to approach it
Treat the prompt as an invitation to brainstorm by domain instead of hunting for one clever object. Spend a minute on each setting — household, workshop, medical, laboratory, agricultural, construction, logistics, hobby, living nature — writing down whatever seizes, pinches, hooks or cradles something there. Vary the scale deliberately: fingertip-sized, hand-held and vehicle-sized versions of the same action each count as separate entries. Then vary the mechanism, from hinged jaws to suction, magnetism, adhesion and grasping limbs. Rarity pays, so once the obvious entries are down, push toward specialist vocabulary and unusual contexts, since the scoring favours the specific over the generic. Finish by pruning anything that only moves an object without holding it.
Get a hint
Begin at the everyday level: drawers, workshops and kitchen counters hold plenty of modest implements whose only purpose is to close around something and keep hold of it.
A little more
Then widen into professional territory, where that same action is either scaled up enormously or made millimeter-precise: industrial yards, operating theatres, laboratories, farms and building sites.
One step further
Finally drift toward the odd edge of the list, where machines have no handle at all, living structures pinch on their own, and some devices lift or draw things in without gripping in the familiar way.
Reveal answers 1,388
- Block and tackleDeep Cut85points
- Block lifterDeep Cut85points
- Block-setting craneDeep Cut85points
- Boat hookDeep Cut85points
- Bobby pinDeep Cut85points
- BolasDeep Cut85points
- Bolt extractor socketDeep Cut85points
- Bolt tongsDeep Cut85points
- Bomb disposal robotDeep Cut85points
- Bonbon spoonDeep Cut85points
- Bone hookDeep Cut85points
- Bone reduction forcepsDeep Cut85points
- Bone-holding forcepsDeep Cut85points
- Bonn forcepsDeep Cut85points
- Bonney myomectomy clampDeep Cut85points
- Bonney tissue forcepsDeep Cut85points
- Boot hooksDeep Cut85points
- Boot jackDeep Cut85points
- Bottle jackDeep Cut85points
- Bottle tongsDeep Cut85points
- Bouillon spoonDeep Cut85points
- Boule lifterDeep Cut85points
- Bowling finger insertsDeep Cut85points
- Box spannerDeep Cut85points
- Box-end wrenchDeep Cut85points
- Box-jaw tongsDeep Cut85points
- Bracket holderDeep Cut85points
- Brake spring pliersDeep Cut85points
- Branch hookDeep Cut85points
- Bread clipDeep Cut85points
- Bread forkDeep Cut85points
- Bread tongsDeep Cut85points
- Breaker-Grozier pliersDeep Cut85points
- Brick tongsDeep Cut85points
- Brown-Adson forcepsDeep Cut85points
- Brush grubberDeep Cut85points
- Bucket chain excavatorDeep Cut85points
- Bucket-wheel excavatorDeep Cut85points
- BuckrakeDeep Cut85points
- Bug vacuumDeep Cut85points
- Built-up handleDeep Cut85points
- Bull holderDeep Cut85points
- Bull staffDeep Cut85points
- Bulldog clampDeep Cut85points
- Bulldog clipDeep Cut85points
- Burette clampDeep Cut85points
- BurrsDeep Cut85points
- Butterfly clipDeep Cut85points
- Butterfly netDeep Cut85points
- Button hookDeep Cut85points
Why these answers count
The reveal shows how flat the scoring curve is: of 1370 recorded answers, 1345 reached at least 60 points, and just one climbed into the 100-point band. Most credit sat at 85, awarded to 1221 entries, while 123 landed at 60. That lone maximum, Claw of Archimedes, sits at the far edge of inventiveness; the 85 tier is where the real field competes, and it is packed with precise, technical or oddly specific picks such as Acland clamp, Acoustic tweezers, Adaptive utensils and Adhesive pads (plant). Notice the pattern: high scorers are rarely plain generic nouns. They are named instruments, named mechanisms and specialised variants, usually borrowed from medicine, engineering or biology. Lower scores almost certainly came from naming a familiar household object with an everyday word. With a pool this vast, points track distance from the first thing a crowd would shout, not usefulness. An entry earns more the harder it is to think of and the more exactly it is named.