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
- Pastry tongsDeep Cut85points
- Patella (Roman dish)Deep Cut85points
- PatenDeep Cut85points
- PatnaDeep Cut85points
- Pea serverDeep Cut85points
- Peg tankardDeep Cut85points
- PegauDeep Cut85points
- PellaDeep Cut85points
- PenaltiDeep Cut85points
- Pende cupDeep Cut85points
- PentaploaDeep Cut85points
- Perilla leafDeep Cut85points
- Persimmon leafDeep Cut85points
- PeşkirDeep Cut85points
- PetachnonDeep Cut85points
- PetisqueiraDeep Cut85points
- PfukoDeep Cut85points
- PhialeDeep Cut85points
- PhilotesiaDeep Cut85points
- PhorbaDeep Cut85points
- PhthoisDeep Cut85points
- PialaDeep Cut85points
- Piaoyi cupDeep Cut85points
- PichetDeep Cut85points
- Pickle castorDeep Cut85points
- Pickle knifeDeep Cut85points
- Pickle tongsDeep Cut85points
- Pie tee shellDeep Cut85points
- Pierced ladleDeep Cut85points
- PiffcheDeep Cut85points
- PigginDeep Cut85points
- Piki trayDeep Cut85points
- Pilgrim flaskDeep Cut85points
- PilónDeep Cut85points
- Pilsner glassDeep Cut85points
- PiñaDeep Cut85points
- PinaxDeep Cut85points
- Pinch bowlDeep Cut85points
- PincukDeep Cut85points
- Pineapple bowlDeep Cut85points
- Pinggan pasuDeep Cut85points
- PinteDeep Cut85points
- PintjeDeep Cut85points
- Pipe à cognacDeep Cut85points
- PipitiDeep Cut85points
- Piring lidiDeep Cut85points
- Pita chipDeep Cut85points
- Piti potDeep Cut85points
- Pizza forkDeep Cut85points
- Pizza scissorsDeep 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.