Krillion Recorded answers
1,959 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 1,959
- ManganotantaliteDeep Cut85points
- Mango SandstoneDeep Cut85points
- ManjakDeep Cut85points
- Mansfield stoneDeep Cut85points
- Mar del Plata stoneDeep Cut85points
- Mara limestoneDeep Cut85points
- MarcasiteDeep Cut85points
- MarekaniteDeep Cut85points
- Marianna marbleDeep Cut85points
- MarlDeep Cut85points
- MartiteDeep Cut85points
- Masi quartziteDeep Cut85points
- Massillon sandstoneDeep Cut85points
- Matatiele SandstoneDeep Cut85points
- Matrix opalDeep Cut85points
- Maulbronn SandstoneDeep Cut85points
- Maw sit sitDeep Cut85points
- MaxixeDeep Cut85points
- Mayen basaltDeep Cut85points
- Medina sandstoneDeep Cut85points
- MeerschaumDeep Cut85points
- MelaniteDeep Cut85points
- MelanteriteDeep Cut85points
- MelaphyreDeep Cut85points
- MelekeDeep Cut85points
- MeliphaniteDeep Cut85points
- MelliteDeep Cut85points
- Mercury Gray QuartziteDeep Cut85points
- MerliniteDeep Cut85points
- Mesabi Black graniteDeep Cut85points
- MesoliteDeep Cut85points
- Meta-anthraciteDeep Cut85points
- MetacinnabarDeep Cut85points
- MeteoriteDeep Cut85points
- Methane hydrateDeep Cut85points
- Miami ooliteDeep Cut85points
- MiargyriteDeep Cut85points
- Michigan limestoneDeep Cut85points
- MicroclineDeep Cut85points
- MicroliteDeep Cut85points
- Midnight Blue dioriteDeep Cut85points
- Midyat stoneDeep Cut85points
- MigmatiteDeep Cut85points
- Mikage stoneDeep Cut85points
- Milano QuartziteDeep Cut85points
- MilariteDeep Cut85points
- Milford pink graniteDeep Cut85points
- MilleriteDeep Cut85points
- Millstone GritDeep Cut85points
- Milly Grey 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.