Krillion Recorded answers
2,284 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 2,284
- Monaka shellDeep Cut85points
- Mongolian hot potDeep Cut85points
- Mongolian knifeDeep Cut85points
- Mongolian knife setDeep Cut85points
- Monkey dishDeep Cut85points
- Monkey jarDeep Cut85points
- MonteithDeep Cut85points
- MookataDeep Cut85points
- MopotjoanaDeep Cut85points
- MoribashiDeep Cut85points
- MoridaiDeep Cut85points
- MoringaDeep Cut85points
- MoritsoanaDeep Cut85points
- Moroccan tea glassDeep Cut85points
- Moroccan teapotDeep Cut85points
- Morro cupDeep Cut85points
- Moscow mule mugDeep Cut85points
- Mote spoonDeep Cut85points
- MtabgaDeep Cut85points
- MthredDeep Cut85points
- MucahuaDeep Cut85points
- MúcuraDeep Cut85points
- Muffin dishDeep Cut85points
- Mukhwas daniDeep Cut85points
- MukombeDeep Cut85points
- MukozukeDeep Cut85points
- MünzbecherDeep Cut85points
- Murrine cupDeep Cut85points
- Mush basketDeep Cut85points
- Mussel potDeep Cut85points
- Mussel shellDeep Cut85points
- Mustache cupDeep Cut85points
- Mustard glassDeep Cut85points
- Mustard potDeep Cut85points
- Mustard spoonDeep Cut85points
- MvubeloDeep Cut85points
- MystileDeep Cut85points
- MystronDeep Cut85points
- Naengmyeon bowlDeep Cut85points
- Nagae no choshiDeep Cut85points
- NagakakuzaraDeep Cut85points
- Nagashi somen flumeDeep Cut85points
- NáhppiDeep Cut85points
- Napkin clipDeep Cut85points
- Napkin weightDeep Cut85points
- NappyDeep Cut85points
- Nautilus cupDeep Cut85points
- Navajo wedding basketDeep Cut85points
- NdahiDeep Cut85points
- NdiloDeep 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.