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
- Snow cone cupDeep Cut85points
- Soapberry spoonDeep Cut85points
- Soapstone potDeep Cut85points
- Soba chokoDeep Cut85points
- Soda siphonDeep Cut85points
- Sohari leafDeep Cut85points
- SokasiDeep Cut85points
- Soma (Newar pitcher)Deep Cut85points
- Somaek glassDeep Cut85points
- SomaghdanDeep Cut85points
- Sospiro glassDeep Cut85points
- SotetDeep Cut85points
- Soufflé dishDeep Cut85points
- Soup containerDeep Cut85points
- Soup crockDeep Cut85points
- Soup kettleDeep Cut85points
- Sour glassDeep Cut85points
- Souvenir spoonDeep Cut85points
- Soy sauce fishDeep Cut85points
- Spa cupDeep Cut85points
- Space food trayDeep Cut85points
- SpetsglasDeep Cut85points
- Spice casterDeep Cut85points
- Spice plateDeep Cut85points
- SpifeDeep Cut85points
- SpiforkDeep Cut85points
- Spirit frameDeep Cut85points
- Spoon trayDeep Cut85points
- Spoon warmerDeep Cut85points
- SpoonerDeep Cut85points
- SporfDeep Cut85points
- Spouted chocolate jarDeep Cut85points
- Spritz glassDeep Cut85points
- Spruce root cupDeep Cut85points
- SpurtleDeep Cut85points
- Squeeze feederDeep Cut85points
- StamnaDeep Cut85points
- StamnakiDeep Cut85points
- StamnosDeep Cut85points
- Standing cupDeep Cut85points
- Standing saltDeep Cut85points
- StangeDeep Cut85points
- StaufDeep Cut85points
- StavetsDeep Cut85points
- Steam table panDeep Cut85points
- Steeple cupDeep Cut85points
- StilDeep Cut85points
- Stirrup cupDeep Cut85points
- Stirrup spout vesselDeep Cut85points
- StopaDeep 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.