Krillion Recorded answers
303 recorded answers
How to approach it
Build the list in layers rather than reaching for one clever answer. First exhaust the plain, high-frequency vocabulary any music buyer knows; those are safe but heavily shared and therefore cheap. Next, think like a collector or a pressing plant: dimension, speed, material, encoding and packaging all generate their own names, and each subdivides the plain terms into dozens of variants. Then think like a label: who paid, when it came out, how limited it was and which market it targeted each create a distinct release designation. Finally, raid the graveyard of failed hardware and the promotional fringe. Rank your candidates by how often an ordinary fan would say them and submit the rarest one you can actually justify.
Get a hint
Start with the everyday vocabulary of buying music: the words printed on a sleeve, a spine or a store shelf label, including the plain, boring terms nobody bothers to call a format.
A little more
Then move to how the thing is made and played: the physical dimensions, running speeds and groove or tape configurations that engineers and collectors use to tell one pressing apart from another.
One step further
Finally sweep the odd corners, namely dead carriers, promotional mailings, packaging gimmicks and deluxe or regional editions, where the strangest names live and the fewest players will land.
Reveal answers 303
- Bone musicOne in a Krillion100points
- 10-inch recordDeep Cut85points
- 12-inch recordDeep Cut85points
- 16 rpm recordDeep Cut85points
- 180-gram vinylDeep Cut85points
- 3-inch vinylDeep Cut85points
- 33 1/3 rpmDeep Cut85points
- 4-inch vinylDeep Cut85points
- 4-track cartridgeDeep Cut85points
- 45 rpm singleDeep Cut85points
- 5-inch recordDeep Cut85points
- 6-inch recordDeep Cut85points
- 78 rpm recordDeep Cut85points
- 8-inch recordDeep Cut85points
- 9-inch singleDeep Cut85points
- A-sideDeep Cut85points
- AcetateDeep Cut85points
- Album appDeep Cut85points
- Alternate versionDeep Cut85points
- AnthologyDeep Cut85points
- Archival releaseDeep Cut85points
- Audio jukeboxDeep Cut85points
- Battle recordDeep Cut85points
- Beat tapeDeep Cut85points
- BetacamDeep Cut85points
- BetamaxDeep Cut85points
- BinauralDeep Cut85points
- Blu-ray AudioDeep Cut85points
- Blu-spec CDDeep Cut85points
- Budget albumDeep Cut85points
- Cardboard recordDeep Cut85points
- CartrivisionDeep Cut85points
- CassingleDeep Cut85points
- CD singleDeep Cut85points
- CD VideoDeep Cut85points
- CD-iDeep Cut85points
- CD-RDeep Cut85points
- CD-ROMDeep Cut85points
- CD+GDeep Cut85points
- CEDDeep Cut85points
- Character songDeep Cut85points
- Charity albumDeep Cut85points
- Charity singleDeep Cut85points
- Chocolate recordDeep Cut85points
- Christmas singleDeep Cut85points
- Clear vinylDeep Cut85points
- Club editionDeep Cut85points
- Combi-packDeep Cut85points
- Commemorative editionDeep Cut85points
- Compact versionDeep Cut85points
Why these answers count
The scoring here is a straight popularity tax. The single hundred-point answer, Bone music, is a genuinely obscure bootleg pressed onto discarded medical X-rays, so almost nobody types it and whoever does gets the full reward. Everything at eighty-five points sits in the collector's middle ground: dimensions and speeds such as 10-inch record, 12-inch record, 16 rpm record or 33 1/3 rpm, packaging and mastering quirks such as 180-gram vinyl or Direct-to-disc, and dead or niche carriers such as Cartrivision, Tefifon or PlayTape. Those are rare enough to beat the crowd but common enough that a determined enthusiast can reach them. The fifty-six answers stuck at sixty points are the ones a large share of players produced, familiar, easily spelled and therefore shared across hundreds of entries, so the reveal pays them the floor rate. Rarity, not correctness, is the whole game: a well-known term is worth less than an odd one nobody else remembered.