Krillion Recorded answers
1,881 recorded answers
How to approach it
The question is deliberately loose, so the work is breadth first and precision second. Begin by stating the obvious reading, a pointed shaft used to pierce or guide, and then run through whole fields of activity one by one: measuring and diagnostic instruments, clinical procedures, textile crafts, machinery and the living world. For each field, push past the everyday example toward the specific named version, because a precise technical term is far less likely to be duplicated by other players. Keep a mental filter: the whole object must be one whose own name sits naturally beside the word, not a sentence that merely mentions one. Rank your candidates from most familiar to most obscure and submit the rarest one you can defend.
Get a hint
Begin with the literal core: a slender pointed shaft, sometimes with an eye for thread, sometimes with a hub that swings across a scale, sometimes nothing but a spike.
A little more
Fan out across domains next: workshops that read pressure, speed or temperature, clinics that draw or deliver fluid, fibre crafts and living things armed with slender spines.
One step further
Aim for the whole name rather than the part: an instrument, a technique, a cultivated variety or a species that carries its own label, since the narrowest recognised term is what reaches the top band.
Reveal answers 1,881
- CoravinOne in a Krillion100points
- A/C manifold gauge setDeep Cut85points
- A1C testDeep Cut85points
- Aari embroideryDeep Cut85points
- Abscess / cyst aspirationDeep Cut85points
- Achilles piercingDeep Cut85points
- Aemilia ArsDeep Cut85points
- African brush-tailed porcupineDeep Cut85points
- Air core gaugeDeep Cut85points
- Air pressure wine openerDeep Cut85points
- Air-fuel ratio gaugeDeep Cut85points
- AirplaneDeep Cut85points
- Airspeed indicatorDeep Cut85points
- Alberta white spruceDeep Cut85points
- Alcock's SpruceDeep Cut85points
- Alençon laceDeep Cut85points
- Aleppo pineDeep Cut85points
- Algerian FirDeep Cut85points
- AlgometerDeep Cut85points
- Allergy blood testDeep Cut85points
- Allicoche hedgehog cactusDeep Cut85points
- Amami PineDeep Cut85points
- Amazonian long-tailed porcupineDeep Cut85points
- AmigurumiDeep Cut85points
- AmnioreductionDeep Cut85points
- Ampallang piercingDeep Cut85points
- Amur hedgehogDeep Cut85points
- Andean porcupineDeep Cut85points
- Andes organ pipeDeep Cut85points
- AnemometerDeep Cut85points
- Anesthesia machineDeep Cut85points
- Angel bites piercingDeep Cut85points
- Angel fangs piercingDeep Cut85points
- Angle of attack indicatorDeep Cut85points
- Anglo-Japanese yewDeep Cut85points
- Anhydrous ammonia applicatorDeep Cut85points
- Ankle blockDeep Cut85points
- Antarctic sea urchinDeep Cut85points
- Antenna analyzerDeep Cut85points
- Anthrax shotDeep Cut85points
- Anti-eyebrow piercingDeep Cut85points
- Anti-nausea injectionDeep Cut85points
- Anti-tragus piercingDeep Cut85points
- Antibiotic injectionDeep Cut85points
- AntivenomDeep Cut85points
- Apache hedgehog cactusDeep Cut85points
- Apache pineDeep Cut85points
- Apadravya piercingDeep Cut85points
- Apheresis machineDeep Cut85points
- Applause meterDeep Cut85points
Why these answers count
Of the 1,881 answers that made the official reveal, 1,850 cleared sixty points, and the distribution tells the story: a single answer took 100, 1,677 landed on 85, and only 172 settled at 60. The crowded middle band is where specificity lives — Anemometer, Algometer, Amigurumi, Apadravya piercing — each a recognised named thing rather than a generic category, so each was claimed by comparatively few players. The lone 100-point entry, Coravin, shows what the very top looks like: a precise product name that almost nobody else thought to write. The 60-point group, by contrast, is the price of arriving at the broad, first-instinct phrasing that thousands of competitors reach within seconds. Nothing about the question favours expertise in one field; it rewards the willingness to leave the obvious domain and keep hunting through instruments, procedures, crafts, cultivars and species until the label stops being interchangeable.