Recorded answers
300 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 300
- Copy Control CDDeep Cut85points
- Cover-mounted CDDeep Cut85points
- Dance practice videoDeep Cut85points
- DATDeep Cut85points
- DataPlayDeep Cut85points
- DC-InternationalDeep Cut85points
- Debut EPDeep Cut85points
- Digipak versionDeep Cut85points
- Digital Compact CassetteDeep Cut85points
- Direct-to-discDeep Cut85points
- Dolby AtmosDeep Cut85points
- Double A-sideDeep Cut85points
- Double EPDeep Cut85points
- Download cardDeep Cut85points
- DTS CDDeep Cut85points
- DualDiscDeep Cut85points
- Dub versionDeep Cut85points
- DubplateDeep Cut85points
- Durium recordDeep Cut85points
- DVD-AudioDeep Cut85points
- DVDplusDeep Cut85points
- Edison Diamond DiscDeep Cut85points
- ElcasetDeep Cut85points
- Enhanced CDDeep Cut85points
- Etched vinylDeep Cut85points
- Exclusive editionDeep Cut85points
- Expanded editionDeep Cut85points
- ExploitoDeep Cut85points
- Extended mixDeep Cut85points
- Fan club releaseDeep Cut85points
- Fan packDeep Cut85points
- Field recordingDeep Cut85points
- Film reelDeep Cut85points
- First pressingDeep Cut85points
- Flexi discDeep Cut85points
- Floppy diskDeep Cut85points
- GruviDeep Cut85points
- Half-speed masterDeep Cut85points
- HD DVDDeep Cut85points
- HDCDDeep Cut85points
- Highlights albumDeep Cut85points
- Hip Pocket recordDeep Cut85points
- HiPacDeep Cut85points
- Hit ClipsDeep Cut85points
- HQCDDeep Cut85points
- Image albumDeep Cut85points
- ImportDeep Cut85points
- iTunes LPDeep Cut85points
- Japanese editionDeep Cut85points
- Jewel case versionDeep 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.