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
- ShankiDeep Cut85points
- SharaDeep Cut85points
- SharabehDeep Cut85points
- Sharbat-khoriDeep Cut85points
- SheklaDeep Cut85points
- Shell cupDeep Cut85points
- Shell spoonDeep Cut85points
- Shepherd's gourdDeep Cut85points
- Sherbet dishDeep Cut85points
- Sherry glassDeep Cut85points
- Shetland (beer glass)Deep Cut85points
- ShiboridashiDeep Cut85points
- Shichimi containerDeep Cut85points
- ShichirinDeep Cut85points
- ShiheDeep Cut85points
- ShintokoDeep Cut85points
- Shirini-khoriDeep Cut85points
- Shirred egg dishDeep Cut85points
- ShkalikDeep Cut85points
- ShokkanDeep Cut85points
- ShokosaDeep Cut85points
- SholmekDeep Cut85points
- Shot skiDeep Cut85points
- Shrimp cocktail serverDeep Cut85points
- ShtambëDeep Cut85points
- ShtofDeep Cut85points
- Shut panDeep Cut85points
- Sierra cupDeep Cut85points
- Sifter spoonDeep Cut85points
- Silver bowl (Mongolian)Deep Cut85points
- SimpulumDeep Cut85points
- SiniDeep Cut85points
- Sinonggi sticksDeep Cut85points
- SinseolloDeep Cut85points
- SintokoDeep Cut85points
- SitulaDeep Cut85points
- Six (beer glass)Deep Cut85points
- SkallionDeep Cut85points
- SkimmerDeep Cut85points
- SkopkarDeep Cut85points
- Skull cupDeep Cut85points
- SkyphosDeep Cut85points
- SlingerglasDeep Cut85points
- Slip-top spoonDeep Cut85points
- Slop bowlDeep Cut85points
- Small beer (glass)Deep Cut85points
- Snack setDeep Cut85points
- Snail forkDeep Cut85points
- SnifterDeep Cut85points
- SnippebolleDeep 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.