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
- AsankaDeep Cut85points
- Ashitsuki-zenDeep Cut85points
- AskosDeep Cut85points
- AskurDeep Cut85points
- Asparagus forkDeep Cut85points
- Asparagus plateDeep Cut85points
- Asparagus serverDeep Cut85points
- Asparagus tongsDeep Cut85points
- Assador de barroDeep Cut85points
- AstauDeep Cut85points
- AtaiforDeep Cut85points
- Attaya setDeep Cut85points
- AtubwaDeep Cut85points
- AuthepsaDeep Cut85points
- AyagaDeep Cut85points
- Ayran cupDeep Cut85points
- AzarpeshaDeep Cut85points
- AzukebachiDeep Cut85points
- Baaqqicha AannaniiDeep Cut85points
- Baby food warmer plateDeep Cut85points
- Bacon dishDeep Cut85points
- Bacon forkDeep Cut85points
- BadiaDeep Cut85points
- BadiehDeep Cut85points
- Baeckeoffe terrineDeep Cut85points
- Bagna cauda potDeep Cut85points
- Baijiu cupDeep Cut85points
- Baijiu decanterDeep Cut85points
- Bain-marieDeep Cut85points
- BajohaiDeep Cut85points
- BaklitsaDeep Cut85points
- BakrajDeep Cut85points
- BakulDeep Cut85points
- Balang kuihDeep Cut85points
- Baler shellDeep Cut85points
- Balti dishDeep Cut85points
- Baluster measureDeep Cut85points
- BanbyeongduriDeep Cut85points
- Banchan dishDeep Cut85points
- BangchungDeep Cut85points
- BansanggiDeep Cut85points
- BapgeureutDeep Cut85points
- Bar spoonDeep Cut85points
- BaragiDeep Cut85points
- BaranDeep Cut85points
- BaranchikDeep Cut85points
- BaranchykDeep Cut85points
- BariDeep Cut85points
- BarjynDeep Cut85points
- BarrilitoDeep 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.