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
- Wonton cupDeep Cut85points
- XeedhoDeep Cut85points
- Xie ba jianDeep Cut85points
- XoraiDeep Cut85points
- XuDeep Cut85points
- Ya bo sie miaDeep Cut85points
- YabbaDeep Cut85points
- Yae ta kongDeep Cut85points
- Yaka cupDeep Cut85points
- Yakumi-ireDeep Cut85points
- Yama-chawanDeep Cut85points
- Yangeun naembiDeep Cut85points
- Yangnyeom danjiDeep Cut85points
- YangpunDeep Cut85points
- Yard glassDeep Cut85points
- Yay-oDeep Cut85points
- YerberaDeep Cut85points
- Yi (ewer)Deep Cut85points
- Yixing teapotDeep Cut85points
- You (vessel)Deep Cut85points
- YuDeep Cut85points
- Yudofu nabeDeep Cut85points
- YugiDeep Cut85points
- YuhuchunpingDeep Cut85points
- Yunnan steam potDeep Cut85points
- Yunoko sukuiDeep Cut85points
- YunomiDeep Cut85points
- YushibinDeep Cut85points
- YutoDeep Cut85points
- YuzamashiDeep Cut85points
- ZarfDeep Cut85points
- ZaruDeep Cut85points
- ŽejdlíkDeep Cut85points
- ZereneDeep Cut85points
- ZhaDeep Cut85points
- ZhadouDeep Cut85points
- Zhan torsyqDeep Cut85points
- ZhbanDeep Cut85points
- ZhiDeep Cut85points
- Zhostovo trayDeep Cut85points
- ZibdiyaDeep Cut85points
- ZlafaDeep Cut85points
- Zombie glassDeep Cut85points
- Zoni-wanDeep Cut85points
- Zosui-wanDeep Cut85points
- Zu (meat stand)Deep Cut85points
- ZunDeep Cut85points
- ZunftbecherDeep Cut85points
- ZunftkrugDeep Cut85points
- ZuritoDeep 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.