Krillion Recorded answers
279 recorded answers
How to approach it
Treat the prompt as a tour of the home rather than a word-association test. Walk through each room in your head and ask one question at every stop: what does this thing collect, and who clears it out? Kitchens, bathrooms, laundry corners, garages, balconies and pet areas all hold devices with a hidden collection chamber. Then stretch the idea of home to include digital space, because folders and inboxes fill and get cleared too. With a rough list in hand, sort by how often the clearing genuinely happens; anything annual or one-off drops away. Finally, prefer the specific over the generic: a named fixture with an obvious emptying ritual beats a broad category every time. Aim for a dozen candidates before you commit to one.
Get a hint
Begin with the chores that come back on a schedule: cleaning, maintenance, pet care, personal care and digital housekeeping all depend on a container that has to be cleared before it works again.
A little more
Walk room by room and ask what each device or fixture is collecting, whether water, dust, debris, condensation or stale data. Every collection point implies somebody has to empty it sooner or later.
One step further
Get concrete about mechanism and rhythm: look for objects with a lid, a filter, a chamber or a chute that you clear weekly or monthly. The more specific and domestic the object sounds, the stronger it usually scores.
Reveal answers 279
- SpittoonOne in a Krillion100points
- AC drip panDeep Cut85points
- Air compressor tankDeep Cut85points
- Aquarium filterDeep Cut85points
- Ash bucketDeep Cut85points
- Ash panDeep Cut85points
- Ash pit cleanoutDeep Cut85points
- Baby bathDeep Cut85points
- Bath bucketDeep Cut85points
- Bath toysDeep Cut85points
- Battery recycling boxDeep Cut85points
- Bed bug interceptorDeep Cut85points
- Bike panniersDeep Cut85points
- Bird bathDeep Cut85points
- Bird nest boxDeep Cut85points
- Bokashi binDeep Cut85points
- Boot trayDeep Cut85points
- Bottle sterilizerDeep Cut85points
- Bottle warmerDeep Cut85points
- Breast pump bottlesDeep Cut85points
- BreastsDeep Cut85points
- BriefcaseDeep Cut85points
- Browser cacheDeep Cut85points
- Browser cookiesDeep Cut85points
- Bug zapperDeep Cut85points
- Camera bagDeep Cut85points
- Carpet cleanerDeep Cut85points
- Carpet sweeperDeep Cut85points
- Cassette toiletDeep Cut85points
- Cat litter matDeep Cut85points
- Catch-all bibDeep Cut85points
- Catheter bagDeep Cut85points
- Central vacuumDeep Cut85points
- CesspitDeep Cut85points
- Charity boxDeep Cut85points
- Chicken coopDeep Cut85points
- ChimineaDeep Cut85points
- Christmas stockingDeep Cut85points
- Clinical waste binDeep Cut85points
- Clothes drying rackDeep Cut85points
- Coffee grinderDeep Cut85points
- Coffee roasterDeep Cut85points
- Coffee roaster chaff collectorDeep Cut85points
- CommodeDeep Cut85points
- Compost tumblerDeep Cut85points
- Composting toiletDeep Cut85points
- Contact lens caseDeep Cut85points
- CPAP water chamberDeep Cut85points
- Denture cupDeep Cut85points
- Dish sterilizerDeep Cut85points
Why these answers count
The points cluster into three very different bands. The great majority of recognized answers sit at 85, and they share a profile: specific household hardware with an obvious emptying ritual, such as a dishwasher filter, a contact lens case, a coffee grinder or a bird bath. These are things people genuinely maintain but rarely mention out loud, so they feel earned without being obvious. A single entry reaches 100, spittoon, which wins purely on surprise: antique, memorable and almost never offered, so whoever says it collects the whole prize. Below that lies the 60 band, where broader and more predictable choices gather and every player crowds onto the same few ideas. The lesson is that rarity, not effort, moves the score. A named component with a visible job reads as legitimate; a vague category reads as a guess. So when two candidates are equally true, choose the one a guest would ask you to explain, because that is usually the one fewer people thought of.