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
- TugalDeep Cut85points
- Tunnel excavatorDeep Cut85points
- Turfing ironDeep Cut85points
- Turnwrest ploughDeep Cut85points
- TushkarDeep Cut85points
- TwibillDeep Cut85points
- V-bucketDeep Cut85points
- Vertical tillage toolDeep Cut85points
- VibracorerDeep Cut85points
- Walking excavatorDeep Cut85points
- WanaDeep Cut85points
- Water injection dredgerDeep Cut85points
- Water well drilling rigDeep Cut85points
- Weeding spudDeep Cut85points
- Well augerDeep Cut85points
- Wheel dozerDeep Cut85points
- Wheel hoeDeep Cut85points
- Wheel tractor-scraperDeep Cut85points
- Wheeled excavatorDeep Cut85points
- WidgerDeep Cut85points
- WiedehopfhaueDeep Cut85points
- Wing hoeDeep Cut85points
- WiraDeep Cut85points
- Wire weederDeep Cut85points
- AeratorRare60points
- AugerRare60points
- BackhoeRare60points
- Beach spadeRare60points
- Border spadeRare60points
- Camping trowelRare60points
- CultivatorRare60points
- Digging barRare60points
- Digging stickRare60points
- DredgerRare60points
- Drilling rigRare60points
- EdgerRare60points
- Entrenching toolRare60points
- Garden forkRare60points
- GraderRare60points
- Hand forkRare60points
- Hand shovelRare60points
- Ice augerRare60points
- Ice axeRare60points
- Miner's pickRare60points
- Mini excavatorRare60points
- Planting spadeRare60points
- PlowRare60points
- Rock drillRare60points
- Rock pickRare60points
- Rotary hammerRare60points
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.