Krillion Recorded answers
297 recorded answers
How to approach it
Work from the most obvious layer outward and keep a written list, because this category rewards volume as much as cleverness. Begin with the everyday carriers anyone would name first, then move to the physical details printed on them: diameter, rotation speed, groove count, tape configuration, disc encoding. After that, shift from the object to the deal around it — how many copies, who was allowed to buy it, what was added or removed, whether it arrived in the post or purely as files. Finally, raid adjacent media: formats borrowed from cinema, computing and toys. Sort your list by how likely a general audience would say it, and submit the most ordinary ideas first, since those are the ones the survey recorded.
Get a hint
Start with the object itself: anything a shop or a mail carrier could hand over as a self-contained musical item belongs here, whatever it is made of.
A little more
Then narrow by the attributes printed on the item or its packaging — dimensions, playing speed, number of tracks, how it is cut, pressed or encoded — because each attribute has spawned its own named variant.
One step further
Finally consider how the item reaches the public: short production runs, subscription-only mailings, copies sent ahead of release, expanded re-releases and bundles that exist only as files all carry their own labels, and each label counts as a separate entry.
Reveal answers 297
- Bone musicOne in a Krillion100points
- 10-inch recordDeep Cut85points
- 12-inch recordDeep Cut85points
- 16 rpm recordDeep Cut85points
- 180-gram vinylDeep Cut85points
- 3-inch vinylDeep Cut85points
- 33 1/3 rpmDeep Cut85points
- 4-track cartridgeDeep Cut85points
- 45 rpm singleDeep Cut85points
- 5-inch recordDeep Cut85points
- 6-inch recordDeep Cut85points
- 78 rpm recordDeep Cut85points
- 9-inch singleDeep Cut85points
- A-sideDeep Cut85points
- AcetateDeep Cut85points
- Album appDeep Cut85points
- Alternate versionDeep Cut85points
- AnthologyDeep Cut85points
- Archival releaseDeep Cut85points
- Audio jukeboxDeep Cut85points
- Battle recordDeep Cut85points
- Beat tapeDeep Cut85points
- BetacamDeep Cut85points
- BetamaxDeep Cut85points
- BinauralDeep Cut85points
- Blu-ray AudioDeep Cut85points
- Blu-spec CDDeep Cut85points
- Budget albumDeep Cut85points
- Cardboard recordDeep Cut85points
- CartrivisionDeep Cut85points
- CassingleDeep Cut85points
- CD singleDeep Cut85points
- CD VideoDeep Cut85points
- CD-iDeep Cut85points
- CD-RDeep Cut85points
- CD-ROMDeep Cut85points
- CD+GDeep Cut85points
- CEDDeep Cut85points
- Character songDeep Cut85points
- Charity albumDeep Cut85points
- Charity singleDeep Cut85points
- Chocolate recordDeep Cut85points
- Christmas singleDeep Cut85points
- Clear vinylDeep Cut85points
- Club editionDeep Cut85points
- Combi-packDeep Cut85points
- Commemorative editionDeep Cut85points
- Compact versionDeep Cut85points
- Companion albumDeep Cut85points
- Complete recordingDeep Cut85points
Why these answers count
The reveal is lopsided: 283 of 297 recorded answers cleared 60 points, which tells you the scoring rewards breadth of vocabulary rather than luck. A single entry, Bone music (100), sat alone at the top because it is a genuinely obscure Soviet-era bootleg practice pressed onto discarded X-rays — memorable enough to be offered, rare enough that almost nobody else reached for it. The 228 answers at 85 points form the real body of the category: technical and collector-facing terms such as 78 rpm record (85), Acetate (85), 4-track cartridge (85) and Cassingle (85). Each names a distinct physical or commercial variant, so the survey could count it without merging it into a neighbour. The 54 answers at 60 points read as the broad, obvious vocabulary most players produce first, which is exactly why they paid less; the remaining fourteen fell below that. The gap between a specific variant and a generic label was worth roughly 25 points.