Krillion Recorded answers
2,254 recorded answers
How to approach it
The productive way in is to treat the shape as a container and then empty it into different domains one at a time. Begin with the physical world, since natural formations are numerous and varied. Move next to anything built by people, from the small and domestic to the monumental. Then sweep through manufactured components, tools, and machine parts, which are the most under-picked territory. After that, go through food and drink, plants and fungi, animals and their shells or horns, and finally clothing and ceremonial objects. For each domain, ask what function a narrowing form serves: funnelling, capping, pointing, supporting, or marking a summit. Write every candidate down before judging it, because the obvious ones are already saturated and the points concentrate in whatever feels slightly too specific to say out loud.
Get a hint
Start with the widest possible field and let your mind run through geology, architecture, transport, kitchen equipment, clothing, and biology before you commit to a single image.
A little more
Narrow it by function rather than by shape alone: ask what a tapered form is used for, what it holds, what it signals, or what it grows into, and whole families of candidates appear.
One step further
Push toward the less obvious end of the list, since the everyday versions are already claimed by everyone; small mechanical parts, ceremonial headwear, sea life, and obscure landforms are where the remaining points sit.
Reveal answers 2,254
- Banana flowerDeep Cut85points
- Banded coneDeep Cut85points
- BanguDeep Cut85points
- Barberyn LighthouseDeep Cut85points
- Barcelona LightDeep Cut85points
- Barge spud tipDeep Cut85points
- Barnegat LighthouseDeep Cut85points
- Barns Ness LighthouseDeep Cut85points
- Barra LighthouseDeep Cut85points
- Barrel of Butter LighthouseDeep Cut85points
- Barren IslandDeep Cut85points
- Barro NegroDeep Cut85points
- Barujari coneDeep Cut85points
- Bathurst LighthouseDeep Cut85points
- Batu TaraDeep Cut85points
- BaulaDeep Cut85points
- BausenbergDeep Cut85points
- BaydzharakhDeep Cut85points
- Bed canopyDeep Cut85points
- Beehive GeyserDeep Cut85points
- Beehive houseDeep Cut85points
- BeigomaDeep Cut85points
- Beinn Dearg MhorDeep Cut85points
- Beinn OdharDeep Cut85points
- Beinn TalaidhDeep Cut85points
- BelemniteDeep Cut85points
- Belgian endiveDeep Cut85points
- Bell Rock LighthouseDeep Cut85points
- Bell tentDeep Cut85points
- Belleville washerDeep Cut85points
- Ben TeeDeep Cut85points
- Beosound 2Deep Cut85points
- BerkemeyerDeep Cut85points
- Bermuda coneDeep Cut85points
- Bevel gearDeep Cut85points
- Bianca's coneDeep Cut85points
- BickernDeep Cut85points
- Bicycle hub coneDeep Cut85points
- Bidein a' ChabairDeep Cut85points
- Big ConeDeep Cut85points
- Big Sable Point LightDeep Cut85points
- Bigcone Douglas-firDeep Cut85points
- Biloxi LightDeep Cut85points
- BingsuDeep Cut85points
- Binnein BeagDeep Cut85points
- Bird Island LightDeep Cut85points
- Bird's nest fungusDeep Cut85points
- Bishop Rock LighthouseDeep Cut85points
- Black Bottom CraterDeep Cut85points
- Black CraterDeep Cut85points
Why these answers count
Almost everything you can name landed at eighty-five points, so the scoring here rewards breadth rather than cleverness. The shape is loose enough that a sugary peak, a conical pastry, a coastal tower, and a volcanic summit all sit in the same band: Sugarloaf still tops the chart at a hundred, while Abbott's cone, Absecon Lighthouse, Acamarachi, and Alloa Glass Cone all scored eighty-five. Only a hundred and fifty-five entries fell to sixty, which means the recognisable, mass-market answers were crowded out rather than penalised for being wrong. Rarity, not accuracy, separated the top from the middle. A household object everyone pictures first earns little because thousands of players type it; an obscure landform, a named mechanical component, or a regional delicacy earns more simply because fewer people reach it. The lesson for this question is that precision pays: instead of the first taper that comes to mind, offer the specific, named, verifiable version of it, and the answer moves up a tier.