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
- Water of Ayr stoneDeep Cut85points
- Watermelon tourmalineDeep Cut85points
- WavelliteDeep Cut85points
- Wealden coalDeep Cut85points
- Wealden SandstoneDeep Cut85points
- Wehlen SandstoneDeep Cut85points
- Weiberner tuffDeep Cut85points
- Weil SandstoneDeep Cut85points
- WeloganiteDeep Cut85points
- Welsh SlateDeep Cut85points
- Werl Green SandstoneDeep Cut85points
- Weser SandstoneDeep Cut85points
- Westerly graniteDeep Cut85points
- Wetterstein limestoneDeep Cut85points
- WhewelliteDeep Cut85points
- Whistler whiteDeep Cut85points
- White City SandstoneDeep Cut85points
- White Macaubas QuartziteDeep Cut85points
- White Montreal QuartziteDeep Cut85points
- WhitewaterDeep Cut85points
- WhitlockiteDeep Cut85points
- Wild PinkDeep Cut85points
- WilkeiteDeep Cut85points
- WillemiteDeep Cut85points
- WilliamsiteDeep Cut85points
- Winneway beigeDeep Cut85points
- Winneway roseDeep Cut85points
- WitheriteDeep Cut85points
- WodginiteDeep Cut85points
- WolframiteDeep Cut85points
- WollastoniteDeep Cut85points
- Wombeyan marbleDeep Cut85points
- Worzeldorf SandstoneDeep Cut85points
- WulfeniteDeep Cut85points
- Wunsiedel MarbleDeep Cut85points
- WurtziliteDeep Cut85points
- WurtziteDeep Cut85points
- WychertDeep Cut85points
- XenotimeDeep Cut85points
- Xiuyan jadeDeep Cut85points
- XonotliteDeep Cut85points
- Yingde stoneDeep Cut85points
- Yixing clayDeep Cut85points
- Yogo sapphireDeep Cut85points
- YorkstoneDeep Cut85points
- YtterbiumDeep Cut85points
- YttriumDeep Cut85points
- YugawaraliteDeep Cut85points
- Yule marbleDeep Cut85points
- Zdonov 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.