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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
- Uba TubaDeep Cut85points
- Udelfangen SandstoneDeep Cut85points
- UlexiteDeep Cut85points
- UmberDeep Cut85points
- Ummendorf SandstoneDeep Cut85points
- UnakiteDeep Cut85points
- Untersberg marbleDeep Cut85points
- UranophaneDeep Cut85points
- UssingiteDeep Cut85points
- UvaroviteDeep Cut85points
- UviteDeep Cut85points
- Valentia slateDeep Cut85points
- ValentiniteDeep Cut85points
- Valley roseDeep Cut85points
- Vals quartziteDeep Cut85points
- Van Gogh graniteDeep Cut85points
- VanadiniteDeep Cut85points
- Vånevik graniteDeep Cut85points
- VarisciteDeep Cut85points
- VateriteDeep Cut85points
- VäyryneniteDeep Cut85points
- Velpke sandstoneDeep Cut85points
- Venčac marbleDeep Cut85points
- Verd antiqueDeep Cut85points
- Verde AlpiDeep Cut85points
- Verde ButterflyDeep Cut85points
- Verde GuatemalaDeep Cut85points
- VerdeliteDeep Cut85points
- VerditeDeep Cut85points
- VermiculiteDeep Cut85points
- Vermillon PinkDeep Cut85points
- Vermont marbleDeep Cut85points
- Vermont slateDeep Cut85points
- VesuvianiteDeep Cut85points
- Veteado RioDeep Cut85points
- Via Lattea graniteDeep Cut85points
- Vietnam white marbleDeep Cut85points
- Villamayor SandstoneDeep Cut85points
- VilliaumiteDeep Cut85points
- ViolanDeep Cut85points
- ViolariteDeep Cut85points
- VivianiteDeep Cut85points
- VolakasDeep Cut85points
- Volcanic ashDeep Cut85points
- Volga BlueDeep Cut85points
- Volvic stoneDeep Cut85points
- WadDeep Cut85points
- WakabayashiliteDeep Cut85points
- Wallace sandstoneDeep Cut85points
- WarditeDeep 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.