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
- Surround sound releaseDeep Cut85points
- SVCDDeep Cut85points
- TefifonDeep Cut85points
- Test pressingDeep Cut85points
- Tour editionDeep Cut85points
- Transcription discDeep Cut85points
- Tribute albumDeep Cut85points
- Triple A-sideDeep Cut85points
- Triple albumDeep Cut85points
- TwoferDeep Cut85points
- Type A / B / C editionDeep Cut85points
- U-maticDeep Cut85points
- UHQCDDeep Cut85points
- Ultra HD Blu-rayDeep Cut85points
- UMDDeep Cut85points
- Unit albumDeep Cut85points
- USB albumDeep Cut85points
- V-DiscDeep Cut85points
- VHDDeep Cut85points
- Video 2000Deep Cut85points
- Video albumDeep Cut85points
- Video CDDeep Cut85points
- Video mixtapeDeep Cut85points
- Video singleDeep Cut85points
- Video8Deep Cut85points
- VinylDiscDeep Cut85points
- VinylVideoDeep Cut85points
- VIP mixDeep Cut85points
- White labelDeep Cut85points
- XOΔEDeep Cut85points
- XRCDDeep Cut85points
- Yoto cardDeep Cut85points
- Zip diskDeep Cut85points
- 8-trackRare60points
- A cappella versionRare60points
- Acoustic / unplugged albumRare60points
- Anniversary editionRare60points
- B-sideRare60points
- Blu-rayRare60points
- BootlegRare60points
- Box setRare60points
- Cast recordingRare60points
- Christmas albumRare60points
- Clean versionRare60points
- Collaborative albumRare60points
- Collector's editionRare60points
- Coloured vinylRare60points
- Concept albumRare60points
- Concert filmRare60points
- Cover versionRare60points
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.