Krillion Recorded answers
423 recorded answers
How to approach it
Work outward from context rather than from a mental picture of one implement. List the environments where ground is opened — vegetable plot, building site, mine, archaeological trench, riverbed, shoreline, frozen surface — and ask what each one actually needs. Then split those needs by the force that drives them: human muscle, animal traction, engine, water. Next split by the material being cut, because loose sand, heavy clay, rock, silt and ice behave nothing alike. Only then push from the generic toward the specific: compound names, trade jargon, regional folk terms and machine variants all live in this space, and the scoring rewards that specificity. Keep a running scratch list and add every variant you can justify, since two near-synonyms rarely pay the same.
Get a hint
Start with the settings rather than the objects: a small domestic plot, a large civil works site, an underground seam, a dredged channel and a tidal flat each demand different equipment.
A little more
Then narrow by how the ground is opened: some implements are pushed by a person, others are driven by an engine, and a third family is lowered from above or towed through water.
One step further
Finally sort by material and depth, since loose sand, packed clay, frozen soil, submerged silt and solid rock all call for a different edge, head or mounting.
Reveal answers 423
- Lug spadeDeep Cut85points
- Luoyang spadeDeep Cut85points
- MaiDeep Cut85points
- MakellaDeep Cut85points
- MammotyDeep Cut85points
- MareshaDeep Cut85points
- MarraDeep Cut85points
- MattockDeep Cut85points
- McLeodDeep Cut85points
- Metal detecting diggerDeep Cut85points
- Metal detecting shovelDeep Cut85points
- Microtunnelling machineDeep Cut85points
- Midi excavatorDeep Cut85points
- Mine ploughDeep Cut85points
- Mobile minerDeep Cut85points
- MoilDeep Cut85points
- Mole ploughDeep Cut85points
- Mud augerDeep Cut85points
- Mud shovelDeep Cut85points
- Navvy shovelDeep Cut85points
- Nejiri gamaDeep Cut85points
- NiwashiDeep Cut85points
- Nursery hoeDeep Cut85points
- Onion harvesterDeep Cut85points
- Onion hoeDeep Cut85points
- Orange peel grabDeep Cut85points
- Paxton hoeDeep Cut85points
- Peanut diggerDeep Cut85points
- Peat corerDeep Cut85points
- Peat spadeDeep Cut85points
- Pick hoeDeep Cut85points
- Pick mattockDeep Cut85points
- Piston corerDeep Cut85points
- Piston drillDeep Cut85points
- Planer augerDeep Cut85points
- Plow hoeDeep Cut85points
- PluggerDeep Cut85points
- PlughoeDeep Cut85points
- Pneumatic dredgerDeep Cut85points
- Pneumatic piercing toolDeep Cut85points
- Post hole diggerDeep Cut85points
- Potato forkDeep Cut85points
- Potato harvesterDeep Cut85points
- Potato hookDeep Cut85points
- PottiputkiDeep Cut85points
- Power shovelDeep Cut85points
- Pressure diggerDeep Cut85points
- Prospector's pickDeep Cut85points
- PuddlerDeep Cut85points
- PulaskiDeep Cut85points
Why these answers count
The reveal sorts into three clear price bands. The forty answers that took 60 points were the plain, everyday class names a player types without thinking — correct, instantly reachable, and therefore cheap. The 370 answers at 85 points are the real middle: precise, often compound or trade-specific names such as Archaeology trowel, Bucket-wheel excavator, Cable tool rig, Cutter suction dredger, Direct push rig, Piston corer and Shelby tube. Each is unmistakably a real implement, yet each sits far enough from the reflex answer that it pays substantially more. Above them stands a single 100-point entry, Golf hole cutter, a narrow single-purpose specialist that almost nobody reaches unless they deliberately hunt the obscure corners of the category. Rarity, not plausibility, sets the payout here: being right in a way thousands of others are also right earns little, while a defensible oddity earns most. Breadth of plausible guesses matters more than depth on any one of them.