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
- Alta quartziteDeep Cut85points
- AlumDeep Cut85points
- Alum shaleDeep Cut85points
- AluniteDeep Cut85points
- Amarello Ornamental GraniteDeep Cut85points
- AmatriceDeep Cut85points
- AmazoniteDeep Cut85points
- Ambaji marbleDeep Cut85points
- AmblygoniteDeep Cut85points
- AmetrineDeep Cut85points
- AmmoliteDeep Cut85points
- AmositeDeep Cut85points
- AmphiboliteDeep Cut85points
- AnalcimeDeep Cut85points
- Anamosa LimestoneDeep Cut85points
- AnataseDeep Cut85points
- Ancaster stoneDeep Cut85points
- AndalusiteDeep Cut85points
- Andamooka opalDeep Cut85points
- Andean opalDeep Cut85points
- Andeer graniteDeep Cut85points
- Andes Black QuartziteDeep Cut85points
- AndesineDeep Cut85points
- Andino White GraniteDeep Cut85points
- AndoriteDeep Cut85points
- AndraditeDeep Cut85points
- Angaston marbleDeep Cut85points
- Angelica Gold TravertineDeep Cut85points
- AngeliteDeep Cut85points
- Angers slateDeep Cut85points
- AnglesiteDeep Cut85points
- AnhydriteDeep Cut85points
- AnnabergiteDeep Cut85points
- AnorthositeDeep Cut85points
- Anröchte StoneDeep Cut85points
- AnthophylliteDeep Cut85points
- Anticostie gneissDeep Cut85points
- AntimonyDeep Cut85points
- Antique FonceDeep Cut85points
- AntleriteDeep Cut85points
- AntozoniteDeep Cut85points
- AnyoliteDeep Cut85points
- Apache tearsDeep Cut85points
- ApatiteDeep Cut85points
- Apica gneissDeep Cut85points
- ApliteDeep Cut85points
- ApophylliteDeep Cut85points
- Aqua mistDeep Cut85points
- Aquia Creek SandstoneDeep Cut85points
- Arabescato marbleDeep 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.