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
- Dishwasher filterDeep Cut85points
- Dog wash systemDeep Cut85points
- Dog-waste binDeep Cut85points
- Donation boxDeep Cut85points
- Downloads folderDeep Cut85points
- Drain trapDeep Cut85points
- Dryer water containerDeep Cut85points
- DVRDeep Cut85points
- Easter basketDeep Cut85points
- Electric composterDeep Cut85points
- Email trashDeep Cut85points
- Espresso knock boxDeep Cut85points
- Essential oil diffuserDeep Cut85points
- Evaporative coolerDeep Cut85points
- Fanny packDeep Cut85points
- Fly trapDeep Cut85points
- Foot spaDeep Cut85points
- Formula prep machineDeep Cut85points
- Garden fountainDeep Cut85points
- Garden pondDeep Cut85points
- Garden sprayerDeep Cut85points
- Garden trugDeep Cut85points
- Garment steamerDeep Cut85points
- Glass recycling boxDeep Cut85points
- Grease trapDeep Cut85points
- Grey water containerDeep Cut85points
- Hazardous waste binDeep Cut85points
- Hedgehog houseDeep Cut85points
- Herb grinderDeep Cut85points
- Hole punchDeep Cut85points
- HookahDeep Cut85points
- Horse stallDeep Cut85points
- Hot water bottleDeep Cut85points
- Hot water dispenserDeep Cut85points
- Hummingbird feederDeep Cut85points
- Hydroponic reservoirDeep Cut85points
- In-trayDeep Cut85points
- Incense holderDeep Cut85points
- Indoor grill drip trayDeep Cut85points
- Ironing basketDeep Cut85points
- Japanese beetle trapDeep Cut85points
- Kegerator drip trayDeep Cut85points
- Lawn mower fuel tankDeep Cut85points
- Lawn sweeperDeep Cut85points
- Leaf tarpDeep Cut85points
- Leaf vacuumDeep Cut85points
- Live animal trapDeep Cut85points
- Makeup bagDeep Cut85points
- MatkaDeep Cut85points
- Meal kit boxDeep 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.