Krillion Recorded answers
1,948 recorded answers
How to approach it
Read the prompt as a request for professional vocabulary instead of famous commodities. Sweep through the big families of material that come out of the earth: building and ornamental stone, industrial minerals, metallic ores, gem material, fossil material and the odd organic inclusion. Then push each family towards its narrowest recognised name, because the top of the board seems reserved for designations a mason, a geologist or a collector would use and a general reader would not. Word shape helps as a filter: plain short nouns cover the obvious substances everybody else will offer, while longer compounds with a modifier in front betray the specialist entries. Recite the alphabet mentally and note any term you half-recognise as a real material.
Get a hint
Begin with the physical act: whatever you name has to be lifted out of soil, sand or solid rock, which opens up excavation, dredging, drilling and deep-shaft extraction alike.
A little more
Then shift from common commodities to specialist vocabulary, since the reveal is dominated by terms that live in geological surveys, stone catalogues and collectors' price lists.
One step further
Favour a two- or three-word label built from a modifier plus a material, often borrowed from a colour, a texture or a place, and remember that hardened organic remains count as well.
Reveal answers 1,948
- CoproliteOne in a Krillion100points
- Abbey roseDeep Cut85points
- Aberdeen graniteDeep Cut85points
- Absolute BlackDeep Cut85points
- Absolute White MarbleDeep Cut85points
- Abtswind SandstoneDeep Cut85points
- Academy Black graniteDeep Cut85points
- Acajou gneissDeep Cut85points
- AchroiteDeep Cut85points
- Acquatic QuartziteDeep Cut85points
- ActiniumDeep Cut85points
- ActinoliteDeep Cut85points
- Adair sepiaDeep Cut85points
- AdamelliteDeep Cut85points
- AdamiteDeep Cut85points
- Adnet marbleDeep Cut85points
- AdulariaDeep Cut85points
- AegirineDeep Cut85points
- AeschyniteDeep Cut85points
- AfghaniteDeep Cut85points
- African Rainbow GraniteDeep Cut85points
- AfricanoDeep Cut85points
- Afyon marbleDeep Cut85points
- AgalmatoliteDeep Cut85points
- Agatha Black GraniteDeep Cut85points
- AggregateDeep Cut85points
- Agra red sandstoneDeep Cut85points
- Ahlat stoneDeep Cut85points
- AikiniteDeep Cut85points
- Ailsa Craig graniteDeep Cut85points
- Aji stoneDeep Cut85points
- AjoiteDeep Cut85points
- AkadamaDeep Cut85points
- Akmara marbleDeep Cut85points
- AlabanditeDeep Cut85points
- Alaska WhiteDeep Cut85points
- Albanel stromatoliteDeep Cut85points
- Alberene stoneDeep Cut85points
- AlbertiteDeep Cut85points
- AlbiteDeep Cut85points
- AlgodoniteDeep Cut85points
- Algonquin limestoneDeep Cut85points
- Alibates flintDeep Cut85points
- Alkali feldspar graniteDeep Cut85points
- AllaniteDeep Cut85points
- Allure QuartziteDeep Cut85points
- AlmandineDeep Cut85points
- Alpedrete graniteDeep Cut85points
- Alpine summerDeep Cut85points
- Alpine Valley GraniteDeep Cut85points
Why these answers count
Look down the scoring column and a hierarchy emerges: broad household materials sit at the bottom, while entries lifted from trade catalogues and survey reports sit at the top. Aberdeen granite, Adnet marble and Abtswind Sandstone each collect 85 points, and the much odder Coprolite stands alone on 100. Rarity explains the gap. A common metal or a familiar fuel is chosen by thousands of players at once, so the pool of points fractures into slivers; a named variety of ornamental stone, a mineral species or a petrified organic remnant is named by almost nobody and therefore keeps the whole specialist award. The 85-point band also shows a strong grammatical habit, with modifier-plus-material labels such as Absolute Black or Alaska White appearing again and again. That shape is your best structural clue: generate candidates in that mould, even half-remembered ones, instead of retreating to the obvious substance everybody else will write.