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
- Covers albumRare60points
- Debut albumRare60points
- Debut singleRare60points
- Deluxe editionRare60points
- DemoRare60points
- Digital downloadRare60points
- Digital singleRare60points
- DJ mixRare60points
- Double albumRare60points
- DVDRare60points
- Explicit versionRare60points
- Greatest hitsRare60points
- InstrumentalRare60points
- Lead singleRare60points
- Limited editionRare60points
- Live DVDRare60points
- LPRare60points
- Lyric videoRare60points
- MashupRare60points
- Mini albumRare60points
- Posthumous albumRare60points
- PromoRare60points
- Radio editRare60points
- Re-recordingRare60points
- ReissueRare60points
- RemasterRare60points
- Remix albumRare60points
- RingtoneRare60points
- Self-titled albumRare60points
- Slowed and reverbRare60points
- Solo albumRare60points
- Sophomore albumRare60points
- Special editionRare60points
- Sped-up versionRare60points
- Standard editionRare60points
- Surprise albumRare60points
- VHSRare60points
- Visual albumRare60points
- VisualizerRare60points
- CassetteSchooler30points
- CompilationSchooler30points
- EPSchooler30points
- Live albumSchooler30points
- MixtapeSchooler30points
- Music videoSchooler30points
- RemixSchooler30points
- SoundtrackSchooler30points
- StreamingSchooler30points
- Studio albumSchooler30points
- AlbumPlankton10points
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.