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
- Coalbed methaneDeep Cut85points
- CobaltiteDeep Cut85points
- Cockercombe tuffDeep Cut85points
- Cockeysville marbleDeep Cut85points
- Coconino SandstoneDeep Cut85points
- Coffee Brown GraniteDeep Cut85points
- CoffiniteDeep Cut85points
- Coking coalDeep Cut85points
- Cold Spring graniteDeep Cut85points
- ColemaniteDeep Cut85points
- Collyweston stone slateDeep Cut85points
- Colonial Cream GraniteDeep Cut85points
- Colonial Ice GraniteDeep Cut85points
- Colonial WhiteDeep Cut85points
- Colorado red sandstoneDeep Cut85points
- ColoradoiteDeep Cut85points
- Coloritt marbleDeep Cut85points
- ColumbiteDeep Cut85points
- Columbus LimestoneDeep Cut85points
- CombarbaliteDeep Cut85points
- ConcretionDeep Cut85points
- Condor agateDeep Cut85points
- ConglomerateDeep Cut85points
- Connemara marbleDeep Cut85points
- CooperiteDeep Cut85points
- CopalDeep Cut85points
- CoquinaDeep Cut85points
- Coral stoneDeep Cut85points
- Corallian limestoneDeep Cut85points
- Cordova shellDeep Cut85points
- Cornberg SandstoneDeep Cut85points
- Cornbrash limestoneDeep Cut85points
- Cornbrash SandstoneDeep Cut85points
- CorncockleDeep Cut85points
- Cornish graniteDeep Cut85points
- Cornish stoneDeep Cut85points
- CornwalliteDeep Cut85points
- CorsehillDeep Cut85points
- CorundumDeep Cut85points
- Costa Esmeralda GraniteDeep Cut85points
- Cotham MarbleDeep Cut85points
- CoticuleDeep Cut85points
- Cotswold stoneDeep Cut85points
- Cotta SandstoneDeep Cut85points
- Cottonwood LimestoneDeep Cut85points
- CovelliteDeep Cut85points
- Crab Orchard SandstoneDeep Cut85points
- Craigleith SandstoneDeep Cut85points
- Crazy lace agateDeep Cut85points
- CreediteDeep 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.