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
- PlayTapeDeep Cut85points
- Pocket DiscDeep Cut85points
- Pocket RockersDeep Cut85points
- Post-album EPDeep Cut85points
- Postcard recordDeep Cut85points
- Pre-releaseDeep Cut85points
- Pre-release singleDeep Cut85points
- Private albumDeep Cut85points
- Promotional singleDeep Cut85points
- QuadraphonicDeep Cut85points
- Quadruple albumDeep Cut85points
- Quintuple albumDeep Cut85points
- Radio sessionDeep Cut85points
- Rarities compilationDeep Cut85points
- RCA tape cartridgeDeep Cut85points
- Re-editDeep Cut85points
- Recital albumDeep Cut85points
- Reel-to-reelDeep Cut85points
- Remix EPDeep Cut85points
- Repackage albumDeep Cut85points
- Revere tape cartridgeDeep Cut85points
- Riddim albumDeep Cut85points
- Ringback toneDeep Cut85points
- RingleDeep Cut85points
- ROM cartridgeDeep Cut85points
- SabamobilDeep Cut85points
- SACDDeep Cut85points
- SamplerDeep Cut85points
- Scented vinylDeep Cut85points
- ScopitoneDeep Cut85points
- Self-releaseDeep Cut85points
- Sequel albumDeep Cut85points
- Shaped discDeep Cut85points
- SHM-CDDeep Cut85points
- Showcase albumDeep Cut85points
- Single albumDeep Cut85points
- Single-sided recordDeep Cut85points
- Singles compilationDeep Cut85points
- SoundieDeep Cut85points
- Special albumDeep Cut85points
- Splatter vinylDeep Cut85points
- SplitDeep Cut85points
- Split-colour vinylDeep Cut85points
- Sponsored albumDeep Cut85points
- Stem player releaseDeep Cut85points
- StemsDeep Cut85points
- StereoDeep Cut85points
- Street albumDeep Cut85points
- Street singleDeep Cut85points
- Super deluxe editionDeep 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.