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
- Neapolitan coffee potDeep Cut85points
- Neat glassDeep Cut85points
- NefDeep Cut85points
- Nekoashi zenDeep Cut85points
- NestorisDeep Cut85points
- Netilat yadayim cupDeep Cut85points
- Nibutani itaDeep Cut85points
- Nick and Nora glassDeep Cut85points
- NimchaDeep Cut85points
- NimkosaDeep Cut85points
- Nimono-wanDeep Cut85points
- NipperkinDeep Cut85points
- NisDeep Cut85points
- NkgwanaDeep Cut85points
- NogginDeep Cut85points
- Nonic glassDeep Cut85points
- NosatkaDeep Cut85points
- NsengwaDeep Cut85points
- Nuri-itaDeep Cut85points
- Nut pickDeep Cut85points
- ObleaDeep Cut85points
- ObonDeep Cut85points
- Oden nabeDeep Cut85points
- OdosDeep Cut85points
- OenophorumDeep Cut85points
- OhitsuDeep Cut85points
- OinisteriaDeep Cut85points
- OinochoeDeep Cut85points
- Okazu cupDeep Cut85points
- Okosama plateDeep Cut85points
- Okuizome setDeep Cut85points
- Old fashioned glassDeep Cut85points
- ÖlgåsDeep Cut85points
- ØlhøneDeep Cut85points
- Olive forkDeep Cut85points
- Olive spoonDeep Cut85points
- OllaDeep Cut85points
- OllixDeep Cut85points
- ØløseDeep Cut85points
- OlpeDeep Cut85points
- OmpariDeep Cut85points
- One-way valve strawDeep Cut85points
- OonDeep Cut85points
- OoskyphionDeep Cut85points
- OpticDeep Cut85points
- Oryoki setDeep Cut85points
- OsekeDeep Cut85points
- OshiboriDeep Cut85points
- Oshibori trayDeep Cut85points
- OshikiDeep 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.