Krillion Recorded answers
3,290 recorded answers
How to approach it
Work backwards from the three months rather than from a list of famous holidays. Picture the calendar grid for each month and ask what kinds of entries could sit in each cell: statutory days off, religious feasts fixed by a lunar or solar calendar, harvest and seasonal rites, national remembrance dates, and multi-day or month-long awareness campaigns. Then push past the obvious handful. Because the scoring rewards obscurity, the useful move is outward from the well-known toward the parochial: small communities, diaspora observances, professional and charitable campaigns, local patronal feasts. Keep a mental checklist of those categories and produce one candidate from each, letting unusual wording or a parenthetical qualifier stand when it is genuinely the name in use. Check afterwards that the date really falls inside the window.
Get a hint
Start from the month grids rather than from memory: any date in the last quarter can anchor an entry, and the broadest categories are statutory days off, religious feasts and cultural festivals.
A little more
Then widen the frame beyond official days off to commemorative periods — month-long awareness campaigns, week-long observances and single-cause days all qualify, and there are a great many of them.
One step further
Finally think small and local: parish feasts, regional harvest rites, community remembrance dates and minor saints' days are usually the least-guessed entries, so they sit at the very top of the scoring band.
Reveal answers 3,290
- Night of the RadishesOne in a Krillion100points
- 14 October Democracy DayDeep Cut85points
- 14 October RevolutionDeep Cut85points
- 16 Days of Activism against Gender-based ViolenceDeep Cut85points
- 3 October Festival (Leiden)Deep Cut85points
- AbanaganDeep Cut85points
- Abhidhamma DayDeep Cut85points
- AbissaDeep Cut85points
- Abolition of Slavery DayDeep Cut85points
- Abu Simbel Sun FestivalDeep Cut85points
- Academic Writing MonthDeep Cut85points
- Acadian Remembrance DayDeep Cut85points
- Accession DayDeep Cut85points
- Accession Day (Bahrain)Deep Cut85points
- Accession Day (Jammu and Kashmir)Deep Cut85points
- Ace WeekDeep Cut85points
- Acupuncture Awareness WeekDeep Cut85points
- Ada Lovelace DayDeep Cut85points
- Adekyem FestivalDeep Cut85points
- ADHD Awareness MonthDeep Cut85points
- Adhi Vap Full Moon Poya DayDeep Cut85points
- Adivay FestivalDeep Cut85points
- Admission DayDeep Cut85points
- Adopt a Senior Pet MonthDeep Cut85points
- Adyawan FestivalDeep Cut85points
- AenokotoDeep Cut85points
- Aeta FestivalDeep Cut85points
- Africa Industrialization DayDeep Cut85points
- Africa Statistics DayDeep Cut85points
- African Human Rights DayDeep Cut85points
- African Youth DayDeep Cut85points
- Afterfeast of the NativityDeep Cut85points
- Agios Georgios MethystisDeep Cut85points
- Agrasen JayantiDeep Cut85points
- Agricultural Reform DayDeep Cut85points
- Ahoi AshtamiDeep Cut85points
- AIDS Awareness WeekDeep Cut85points
- Aippasi AnnabhishekamDeep Cut85points
- Air Force DayDeep Cut85points
- Air Force Day (Bulgaria)Deep Cut85points
- Air Force Day (India)Deep Cut85points
- Aitutaki Gospel DayDeep Cut85points
- Akhri Chahar ShambaDeep Cut85points
- Ako Gishi-saiDeep Cut85points
- Akshaya NavamiDeep Cut85points
- AkwantukeseDeep Cut85points
- Al-'Ashr al-AwakhirDeep Cut85points
- Al-NaflaDeep Cut85points
- Alabama DayDeep Cut85points
- Alaska DayDeep Cut85points
Why these answers count
The reveal is enormous, and that shape tells you most of what matters. Of 3,290 recorded answers, 3,275 scored at least sixty points and only fifteen fell below that line, so almost any genuine holiday dated inside the window earned something. The contest is decided inside the top band: 3,181 answers sat at 85 points, 93 at 60, and exactly one reached 100. That 85-point mass is the long tail of real but specialised observances — 'Abhidhamma Day', 'Ace Week', 'Adopt a Senior Pet Month', 'Air Force Day (Bulgaria)' — entries that are precise, verifiable and rarely volunteered. At 60 sit picks that are legitimate yet comparatively easy to reach. The lone 100-point answer, 'Night of the Radishes', shows what the summit of the curve looks like: a named local festival almost nobody from outside its region would think of first. The practical lesson is that recognisability is the cost; a household-name holiday is safe but cheap, while an obscure, correctly named observance in the right quarter of the year is where the points live.