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
- Thermal bowlDeep Cut85points
- Thermal carafeDeep Cut85points
- Thimble measureDeep Cut85points
- ThinaDeep Cut85points
- Thistle cupDeep Cut85points
- Thistle glassDeep Cut85points
- ThốDeep Cut85points
- ThokeDeep Cut85points
- ThongaDeep Cut85points
- Ti leafDeep Cut85points
- Ti' Punch glassDeep Cut85points
- TianDeep Cut85points
- TiffinDeep Cut85points
- Tiki mugDeep Cut85points
- TimbaleDeep Cut85points
- TineDeep Cut85points
- Tipuho leafDeep Cut85points
- Toast forkDeep Cut85points
- Toast rackDeep Cut85points
- Toasting glassDeep Cut85points
- Toastmaster’s glassDeep Cut85points
- TobanDeep Cut85points
- Toby jugDeep Cut85points
- Toddy lifterDeep Cut85points
- ToejujanDeep Cut85points
- Toffee hammerDeep Cut85points
- TokkuriDeep Cut85points
- Tomato serverDeep Cut85points
- TondinoDeep Cut85points
- Tongba potDeep Cut85points
- TonnetjeDeep Cut85points
- TonsuiDeep Cut85points
- TorizaraDeep Cut85points
- Tornillo (pulque glass)Deep Cut85points
- TorokannuDeep Cut85points
- Torre (pulque glass)Deep Cut85points
- TorsykDeep Cut85points
- Tortilla warmerDeep Cut85points
- TosokiDeep Cut85points
- Tostada shellDeep Cut85points
- TostaganDeep Cut85points
- Tostón cupDeep Cut85points
- Tot cupDeep Cut85points
- Totoya chawanDeep Cut85points
- TragelaphosDeep Cut85points
- TramiDeep Cut85points
- TraubenwäscherDeep Cut85points
- Tray of togethernessDeep Cut85points
- Trefid spoonDeep Cut85points
- TrembleuseDeep 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.