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
- Soft plastics bagDeep Cut85points
- Sous vide containerDeep Cut85points
- Soy milk makerDeep Cut85points
- Steam ironDeep Cut85points
- Steam mopDeep Cut85points
- Steam ovenDeep Cut85points
- StomachDeep Cut85points
- Stroller basketDeep Cut85points
- Suction machine canisterDeep Cut85points
- Tea infuserDeep Cut85points
- Temp files folderDeep Cut85points
- TerrariumDeep Cut85points
- Tobacco pipeDeep Cut85points
- Toiletry bagDeep Cut85points
- Tote bagDeep Cut85points
- Trick-or-treat bagDeep Cut85points
- Ultrasonic cleanerDeep Cut85points
- Umbrella standDeep Cut85points
- Urinal bottleDeep Cut85points
- Vacuum sealer drip trayDeep Cut85points
- VoicemailDeep Cut85points
- Washing machine filterDeep Cut85points
- Washing-up bowlDeep Cut85points
- Wasp trapDeep Cut85points
- Water coolerDeep Cut85points
- Water distillerDeep Cut85points
- Water flosserDeep Cut85points
- Water heaterDeep Cut85points
- Water tableDeep Cut85points
- Water troughDeep Cut85points
- Watering canDeep Cut85points
- Wax warmerDeep Cut85points
- Wet-dry floor cleanerDeep Cut85points
- WheelbarrowDeep Cut85points
- Window vacuumDeep Cut85points
- Window wellDeep Cut85points
- Wood chipperDeep Cut85points
- WormeryDeep Cut85points
- Air fryerRare60points
- BackpackRare60points
- Bathroom binRare60points
- BathtubRare60points
- BedpanRare60points
- Bird cage trayRare60points
- BladderRare60points
- BongRare60points
- Bottle return bagRare60points
- BowelsRare60points
- CarRare60points
- Chamber potRare60points
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.