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
- DavitDeep Cut85points
- DeBakey clampDeep Cut85points
- DeBakey forcepsDeep Cut85points
- Deck craneDeep Cut85points
- Deep socketDeep Cut85points
- Delta robotDeep Cut85points
- Demitasse spoonDeep Cut85points
- Demolition grappleDeep Cut85points
- Dent pullerDeep Cut85points
- Dental forcepsDeep Cut85points
- Dental keyDeep Cut85points
- Dental pelicanDeep Cut85points
- DepalletizerDeep Cut85points
- DerrickDeep Cut85points
- Deshedding gloveDeep Cut85points
- Desoldering pumpDeep Cut85points
- Dessert forkDeep Cut85points
- Dessert spoonDeep Cut85points
- Devil's clawDeep Cut85points
- DewclawDeep Cut85points
- Diamond painting penDeep Cut85points
- Die pick-up colletDeep Cut85points
- Die stockDeep Cut85points
- Digger derrickDeep Cut85points
- Dip netDeep Cut85points
- Disc retrieverDeep Cut85points
- DisherDeep Cut85points
- Dissecting forcepsDeep Cut85points
- Door lifterDeep Cut85points
- Doorknob gripDeep Cut85points
- Dovetail clampDeep Cut85points
- Doyen intestinal clampDeep Cut85points
- DraglineDeep Cut85points
- Drain clawDeep Cut85points
- Drain hair removerDeep Cut85points
- Drain snakeDeep Cut85points
- DredgerDeep Cut85points
- Dressing forcepsDeep Cut85points
- Dressing stickDeep Cut85points
- Drift netDeep Cut85points
- Drill pipe elevatorDeep Cut85points
- Drill pipe slipsDeep Cut85points
- Drill press viseDeep Cut85points
- Driving glovesDeep Cut85points
- Drum lifterDeep Cut85points
- Drywall liftDeep Cut85points
- Duckbill clipDeep Cut85points
- Duckbill pliersDeep Cut85points
- Dust collectorDeep Cut85points
- Dust extractorDeep 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.