Krillion Recorded answers
338 recorded answers
How to approach it
Work from the most universal end of the scale outward. First list the payments almost every household faces at a predictable interval, the ones tied to simply occupying and servicing a dwelling, and note how many variants exist within each of those families. Then push into the less obvious layer: arrangements people sign up for to protect themselves against a specific risk, to gain access to a facility or service, or to maintain something they own. After that, look for charges attached to a particular kind of property, a particular tenancy arrangement, or a particular stage of family life. Rank what remains by how unusual it is, because obscurity is what separates a high score from a safe, ordinary guess, and check that each candidate truly repeats rather than occurring once.
Get a hint
Start with the fixed rhythm of running a home: what money must go out again and again, month after month, whether or not anything breaks or gets used up.
A little more
Then widen past obvious service charges to contracts people hold for protection, access, upkeep, and care, including small niche arrangements that only some households carry.
One step further
Finally think of the obscure end: specialised cover, memberships, rental schemes, and levies that appear on a single street or in one type of building, since the rare picks are where the points are.
Reveal answers 338
- Nanny taxOne in a Krillion100points
- Accident insuranceDeep Cut85points
- Accidental damage coverDeep Cut85points
- Accountant feesDeep Cut85points
- Adult day careDeep Cut85points
- Air filter subscriptionDeep Cut85points
- Airport lounge or travel membershipDeep Cut85points
- AlimonyDeep Cut85points
- Allotment rentDeep Cut85points
- Ambulance coverDeep Cut85points
- Appliance insuranceDeep Cut85points
- Appliance rentalDeep Cut85points
- ATV insuranceDeep Cut85points
- Au pairDeep Cut85points
- Bicycle insuranceDeep Cut85points
- Bike share membershipDeep Cut85points
- Bin cleaningDeep Cut85points
- Boat registrationDeep Cut85points
- Boiler coverDeep Cut85points
- Book clubDeep Cut85points
- Buildings insuranceDeep Cut85points
- Burglary insuranceDeep Cut85points
- Burial societyDeep Cut85points
- Camera insuranceDeep Cut85points
- Cancer insuranceDeep Cut85points
- Car cleaningDeep Cut85points
- Car connectivity subscriptionDeep Cut85points
- Car hire excess insuranceDeep Cut85points
- Car service planDeep Cut85points
- Car sharing membershipDeep Cut85points
- Catalogue paymentDeep Cut85points
- Child life insuranceDeep Cut85points
- ChildminderDeep Cut85points
- Chiller feesDeep Cut85points
- Chimney sweepDeep Cut85points
- Church taxDeep Cut85points
- Cinema membershipDeep Cut85points
- Classic car insuranceDeep Cut85points
- Clothing rental subscriptionDeep Cut85points
- CoalDeep Cut85points
- Coffee subscriptionDeep Cut85points
- Community levyDeep Cut85points
- Community solar subscriptionDeep Cut85points
- Congestion chargeDeep Cut85points
- Contact lens subscriptionDeep Cut85points
- CookDeep Cut85points
- Creator membershipDeep Cut85points
- Credit life insuranceDeep Cut85points
- Critical illness insuranceDeep Cut85points
- CSA shareDeep Cut85points
Why these answers count
The distribution tells the story plainly. A single answer reached the hundred-point tier, 'Nanny tax', which is the sort of narrow, jurisdiction-specific obligation almost nobody outside a particular employment arrangement would ever think of. Behind it sits a huge flat shelf at eighty-five points, and that shelf is where the real contest happens: hundreds of entries clustered there, from 'Chimney sweep' and 'Bin cleaning' to 'Coffee subscription' and 'Accident insurance'. What unites them is specificity. Each names a distinct contract, service, or levy rather than gesturing at a broad family of charges, and each is plausible enough to be recognised yet uncommon enough that most players never reach it. The 112 answers at sixty points are the ordinary, broadly shared obligations that occur to nearly everyone immediately. Rarer picks earn more because the scoring rewards the distance a player travels from the obvious, so the winning strategy is to keep going after the first three ideas.