Name something that has a needle

November 11, 2026 · Daily Dive #119

Explore 1,881 recorded answers and their points for question 4 on November 11, 2026.

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1,881 recorded names on November 11, 2026, 1,678 at 85 or higher. The highest recorded score on this question is 100.

Think about trades and instruments where a thin pointed shaft does the real work, from a dial that swings across a scale to a craft that carries thread through cloth. Counts when a needle is a named working part of the thing, or the ordinary word for its leaves or spines; pure metaphors, puns and idioms about needling someone do not.

1,881 recorded answers1,678 at 85+ points100 highest recorded points
  • One in a Krillion1100 pts
  • Deep Cut1,67785 pts
  • Rare17260 pts
  • Schooler2330 pts
  • Too Clever115 pts
  • Plankton710 pts
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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
  • EntrelacDeep Cut85points
  • Epidural blood patchDeep Cut85points
  • Epidural kitDeep Cut85points
  • Epidural steroid injectionDeep Cut85points
  • Episiotomy repairDeep Cut85points
  • Erect PricklypearDeep Cut85points
  • Erector spinae plane blockDeep Cut85points
  • Espresso machineDeep Cut85points
  • ESR testDeep Cut85points
  • EtchingDeep Cut85points
  • European hedgehogDeep Cut85points
  • European larchDeep Cut85points
  • European yewDeep Cut85points
  • Eve's Needle CactusDeep Cut85points
  • Evelyn's KeteleeriaDeep Cut85points
  • Exchange transfusionDeep Cut85points
  • Faber’s firDeep Cut85points
  • Facet joint injectionDeep Cut85points
  • Fair Isle knittingDeep Cut85points
  • Fairy castle cactusDeep Cut85points
  • Fanjingshan firDeep Cut85points
  • Farges Nutmeg TreeDeep Cut85points
  • Farges' FirDeep Cut85points
  • Farrer's SpruceDeep Cut85points
  • Fascia iliaca blockDeep Cut85points
  • Fat injectionDeep Cut85points
  • Faux rook piercingDeep Cut85points
  • Feather cactusDeep Cut85points
  • Felting kitDeep Cut85points
  • Felting machineDeep Cut85points
  • Femoral nerve blockDeep Cut85points
  • Fendler's Hedgehog CactusDeep Cut85points
  • Fertility injectionDeep Cut85points
  • Field strength meterDeep Cut85points
  • Filet crochetDeep Cut85points
  • Filet laceDeep Cut85points
  • Finger CactusDeep Cut85points
  • Fire Barrel CactusDeep Cut85points
  • Fire needle acupunctureDeep Cut85points
  • Fire urchinDeep Cut85points
  • Fishbone CactusDeep Cut85points
  • Fishhook barrel cactusDeep Cut85points
  • Fishhook cactusDeep Cut85points
  • Flaky FirDeep Cut85points
  • Flaky juniperDeep Cut85points
  • Flap position indicatorDeep Cut85points
  • Flat knittingDeep Cut85points
  • Flat piercingDeep Cut85points
  • Flatlock machineDeep Cut85points
  • Florida Semaphore CactusDeep 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.

Recorded from the game’s published reveal · Source · Checked 11 Nov, 05:00 UTC

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