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
- NigeriteDeep Cut85points
- NiobiumDeep Cut85points
- Noche TravertineDeep Cut85points
- Noir BelgeDeep Cut85points
- Noir Cambrien anorthositeDeep Cut85points
- Noir Nordique gneissDeep Cut85points
- Noir Taillon anorthositeDeep Cut85points
- NorbergiteDeep Cut85points
- Nordic River gneissDeep Cut85points
- NoriteDeep Cut85points
- Norwegian RoseDeep Cut85points
- Norwegian slateDeep Cut85points
- NoseanDeep Cut85points
- Nöttingen SandstoneDeep Cut85points
- NovaculiteDeep Cut85points
- Nubian SandstoneDeep Cut85points
- NuummiteDeep Cut85points
- Oamaru stoneDeep Cut85points
- Obernkirchen SandstoneDeep Cut85points
- Obersulzbach SandstoneDeep Cut85points
- Ocala limestoneDeep Cut85points
- Ocean jasperDeep Cut85points
- Ocelot anorthositeDeep Cut85points
- OchreDeep Cut85points
- Odenwald SandstoneDeep Cut85points
- OdontoliteDeep Cut85points
- Ohio bluestoneDeep Cut85points
- Ohio SandstoneDeep Cut85points
- OkeniteDeep Cut85points
- Oklahoma flagstoneDeep Cut85points
- Öland limestoneDeep Cut85points
- Old Red SandstoneDeep Cut85points
- OligoclaseDeep Cut85points
- OlivineDeep Cut85points
- Oltu stoneDeep Cut85points
- Omonville sandstoneDeep Cut85points
- OmphaciteDeep Cut85points
- Onondaga LimestoneDeep Cut85points
- Onsernone gneissDeep Cut85points
- Onyx Bamboo QuartziteDeep Cut85points
- Onyx marbleDeep Cut85points
- OoliteDeep Cut85points
- Oregon sunstoneDeep Cut85points
- OrpimentDeep Cut85points
- Orsk jasperDeep Cut85points
- OrthocerasDeep Cut85points
- OrthoclaseDeep Cut85points
- OsmiridiumDeep Cut85points
- OsmiumDeep Cut85points
- Osterwald SandstoneDeep 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.