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
- DurometerDeep Cut85points
- Dwarf Chin CactusDeep Cut85points
- Dwarf Stone PineDeep Cut85points
- Dwarf turk's cap cactusDeep Cut85points
- Dwell meterDeep Cut85points
- Dydoe piercingDeep Cut85points
- DynamometerDeep Cut85points
- E-meterDeep Cut85points
- Eagle's claw cactusDeep Cut85points
- Earth inductor compassDeep Cut85points
- Earth resistance testerDeep Cut85points
- Easter Lily CactusDeep Cut85points
- Eastern hemlockDeep Cut85points
- Eastern long-beaked echidnaDeep Cut85points
- Eastern prickly pearDeep Cut85points
- Ebola shotDeep Cut85points
- EchinocactusDeep Cut85points
- EconometerDeep Cut85points
- Edible sea urchinDeep Cut85points
- Edwards' pricklypearDeep Cut85points
- EEG machineDeep Cut85points
- Egg piercerDeep Cut85points
- Egg retrievalDeep Cut85points
- Egg-cone pineDeep Cut85points
- EGT gaugeDeep Cut85points
- El Paso pricklypearDeep Cut85points
- ElectroacupunctureDeep Cut85points
- ElectrodynamometerDeep Cut85points
- ElectrometerDeep Cut85points
- ElectroscopeDeep Cut85points
- ElectrospinningDeep Cut85points
- ElectrosprayDeep Cut85points
- Electrostatic voltmeterDeep Cut85points
- Elephant's toothDeep Cut85points
- Elephantear pricklypearDeep Cut85points
- EmbalmingDeep Cut85points
- Embroidery kitDeep Cut85points
- EMF meterDeep Cut85points
- EMGDeep Cut85points
- Emory's barrel cactusDeep Cut85points
- Emu BerryDeep Cut85points
- Endoscopic ultrasound FNADeep Cut85points
- Engelmann prickly pearDeep Cut85points
- Engelmann spruceDeep Cut85points
- Engelmann's Fishhook CactusDeep Cut85points
- Engelmann's hedgehog cactusDeep Cut85points
- Engine pressure ratio gaugeDeep Cut85points
- Engine vibration indicatorDeep Cut85points
- English knittingDeep Cut85points
- Enterovirus 71 shotDeep 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.