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
- Japanese editionDeep Cut85points
- Jewel case versionDeep Cut85points
- Jukebox singleDeep Cut85points
- Karaoke releaseDeep Cut85points
- Kit albumDeep Cut85points
- LaserDiscDeep Cut85points
- Lathe cutDeep Cut85points
- Library musicDeep Cut85points
- Liquid-filled vinylDeep Cut85points
- Little LPDeep Cut85points
- Live EPDeep Cut85points
- Live singleDeep Cut85points
- Marbled vinylDeep Cut85points
- Maxi singleDeep Cut85points
- MegamixDeep Cut85points
- Memory card albumDeep Cut85points
- MicrocassetteDeep Cut85points
- Mighty TinyDeep Cut85points
- Mini CDDeep Cut85points
- MiniDiscDeep Cut85points
- MiniDVDeep Cut85points
- Minimax CDDeep Cut85points
- Mixed mode CDDeep Cut85points
- Mohawk MidgetapeDeep Cut85points
- MonoDeep Cut85points
- MQA-CDDeep Cut85points
- Multi-disc setDeep Cut85points
- Multi-groove recordDeep Cut85points
- Music box discDeep Cut85points
- Music documentaryDeep Cut85points
- Music short filmDeep Cut85points
- MVDDeep Cut85points
- MVIDeep Cut85points
- NFT releaseDeep Cut85points
- Non-album singleDeep Cut85points
- NT cassetteDeep Cut85points
- Official audioDeep Cut85points
- Official bootlegDeep Cut85points
- OpendiscDeep Cut85points
- Organ rollDeep Cut85points
- Orrtronic TapetteDeep Cut85points
- Pathé discDeep Cut85points
- Phonograph cylinderDeep Cut85points
- Photobook versionDeep Cut85points
- Piano rollDeep Cut85points
- Picture discDeep Cut85points
- Platform albumDeep Cut85points
- Platinum editionDeep Cut85points
- Playable postage stampDeep Cut85points
- PlaybuttonDeep 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.