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
- Companion albumDeep Cut85points
- Complete recordingDeep Cut85points
- Copy Control CDDeep Cut85points
- Cover-mounted CDDeep Cut85points
- Dance practice videoDeep Cut85points
- DATDeep Cut85points
- DataPlayDeep Cut85points
- DC-InternationalDeep Cut85points
- Debut EPDeep Cut85points
- Digipak versionDeep Cut85points
- Digital Compact CassetteDeep Cut85points
- Direct-to-discDeep Cut85points
- Dolby AtmosDeep Cut85points
- Double A-sideDeep Cut85points
- Double EPDeep Cut85points
- Download cardDeep Cut85points
- DTS CDDeep Cut85points
- DualDiscDeep Cut85points
- Dub versionDeep Cut85points
- DubplateDeep Cut85points
- Durium recordDeep Cut85points
- DVD-AudioDeep Cut85points
- DVDplusDeep Cut85points
- Edison Diamond DiscDeep Cut85points
- ElcasetDeep Cut85points
- Enhanced CDDeep Cut85points
- Etched vinylDeep Cut85points
- Exclusive editionDeep Cut85points
- Expanded editionDeep Cut85points
- ExploitoDeep Cut85points
- Extended mixDeep Cut85points
- Fan club releaseDeep Cut85points
- Fan packDeep Cut85points
- Field recordingDeep Cut85points
- Film reelDeep Cut85points
- First pressingDeep Cut85points
- Flexi discDeep Cut85points
- Floppy diskDeep Cut85points
- GruviDeep Cut85points
- Half-speed masterDeep Cut85points
- HD DVDDeep Cut85points
- HDCDDeep Cut85points
- Highlights albumDeep Cut85points
- Hip Pocket recordDeep Cut85points
- HiPacDeep Cut85points
- Hit ClipsDeep Cut85points
- HQCDDeep Cut85points
- Image albumDeep Cut85points
- ImportDeep Cut85points
- iTunes LPDeep 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.