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
- Slurry shieldDeep Cut85points
- Sod cutterDeep Cut85points
- SoeseurangDeep Cut85points
- SokhaDeep Cut85points
- Spade ploughDeep Cut85points
- SpaderDeep Cut85points
- Spear Head SpadeDeep Cut85points
- Speed dibbleDeep Cut85points
- Split-spoon samplerDeep Cut85points
- Spoon dredgeDeep Cut85points
- Spoon shovelDeep Cut85points
- Spud barDeep Cut85points
- Stirrup hoeDeep Cut85points
- Stony soil augerDeep Cut85points
- Strip till toolbarDeep Cut85points
- Stump bucketDeep Cut85points
- Submersible dredgerDeep Cut85points
- Subsea trencherDeep Cut85points
- SubsoilerDeep Cut85points
- SubterreneDeep Cut85points
- Suction dredgerDeep Cut85points
- Suction excavatorDeep Cut85points
- Super PulaskiDeep Cut85points
- Surface minerDeep Cut85points
- Swan-neck hoeDeep Cut85points
- Swedish planting hoeDeep Cut85points
- Switch ploughDeep Cut85points
- SwoeDeep Cut85points
- TacarpoDeep Cut85points
- TacllaDeep Cut85points
- Telescopic excavatorDeep Cut85points
- Terrarium spadeDeep Cut85points
- Tile plowDeep Cut85points
- Tilt bucketDeep Cut85points
- TimoDeep Cut85points
- TōguwaDeep Cut85points
- Track loaderDeep Cut85points
- Tractor post hole diggerDeep Cut85points
- Trailing suction hopper dredgerDeep Cut85points
- Transplanting spadeDeep Cut85points
- Trapezoid hoeDeep Cut85points
- Tree planting barDeep Cut85points
- Tree planting shovelDeep Cut85points
- Tree spadeDeep Cut85points
- Trench cutterDeep Cut85points
- Tricone bitDeep Cut85points
- Trowel bayonetDeep Cut85points
- Truffle spadeDeep Cut85points
- TtabiDeep Cut85points
- Tú·kesDeep 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.