Krillion Recorded answers
2,278 recorded answers
How to approach it
Work outward from the most ordinary kitchen drawer and keep going until the words start to feel strange. Begin with the everyday cohort almost everyone would list, since those will be there but will sit at the bottom of the scoring band. Then push into trades, institutions, religions and holiday customs, because each of those preserves implements the general public never names. Vocabulary from older periods pays especially well, as do terms borrowed from other languages for vessels that English never bothered to name. Before committing, check that the object is truly a thing you hold or set down, not a substance, a machine or a piece of furniture, and prefer the narrower name over the generic one whenever both exist.
Get a hint
Start at the table itself: everything laid out at a single place setting, then widen the sweep outward to the kitchen, the bar and the serving sideboard.
A little more
Add the pieces that never touch the diner but do the carrying: the vessels food is brought in, the stands that lift a dish, the small tools that portion out a shared plate.
One step further
Now go historical and regional: ancient ritual vessels, measuring vessels kept for medicinal use, implements built around one single ingredient, and festival wares that appear only once a year.
Reveal answers 2,278
- Penny lickOne in a Krillion100points
- Abalone shellDeep Cut85points
- Absinthe fountainDeep Cut85points
- Absinthe glassDeep Cut85points
- Absinthe spoonDeep Cut85points
- AbuqalDeep Cut85points
- Acetabulum (vinegar cup)Deep Cut85points
- Achaar daniDeep Cut85points
- Adaptive cupDeep Cut85points
- Adaptive utensilsDeep Cut85points
- Aduno koroDeep Cut85points
- AgaayaatDeep Cut85points
- Airline meal trayDeep Cut85points
- AirpotDeep Cut85points
- Aish baladiDeep Cut85points
- AjiceroDeep Cut85points
- AkakibashiDeep Cut85points
- AkatosDeep Cut85points
- AkurumDeep Cut85points
- Ale bowlDeep Cut85points
- AleisonDeep Cut85points
- AlepotDeep Cut85points
- Alsace wine glassDeep Cut85points
- AltamíaDeep Cut85points
- Altbier glassDeep Cut85points
- AmbarDeep Cut85points
- AmphoxisDeep Cut85points
- AmystisDeep Cut85points
- AnaphaiaDeep Cut85points
- AngaraDeep Cut85points
- AnkyleDeep Cut85points
- Annaprashan setDeep Cut85points
- AntiDeep Cut85points
- AntigonisDeep Cut85points
- Antipasto platterDeep Cut85points
- Antler spoonDeep Cut85points
- AotonDeep Cut85points
- ApaxtleDeep Cut85points
- ApiraDeep Cut85points
- ApomagdaliaDeep Cut85points
- Apostle spoonDeep Cut85points
- AquamanileDeep Cut85points
- Aquavit glassDeep Cut85points
- AquillaDeep Cut85points
- Arak glassDeep Cut85points
- ArepaDeep Cut85points
- ArgyleDeep Cut85points
- ArgyrisDeep Cut85points
- Aroma cupDeep Cut85points
- ArystichosDeep Cut85points
Why these answers count
Scoring here is driven almost entirely by obscurity, and the reveal makes the gradient unusually clean. The lone hundred-point entry, Penny lick, is a vanished street-trade object that most solvers cannot even picture, so practically nobody reaches it. The great middle tier at eighty-five points is where the contest really sits: 1824 answers, spanning archaeological vessel names, regional drinking glasses, single-ingredient service tools and ceremonial wares, all scoring alike because each is rare enough to surprise yet still a genuine implement. Abalone shell, Absinthe fountain and Asparagus tongs show how wide that band is, since a natural shell, an elaborate bar fixture and a single-purpose pair of tongs land on exactly the same mark. The 390 answers at sixty points are ordinary but still precise words, and only about fifty of the 2265 recorded answers fall below that line, which suggests the plainest everyday terms were largely filtered out before the list was built. Rarity, not usefulness, sets the price.