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
- Glideslope indicatorDeep Cut85points
- Globe cactusDeep Cut85points
- Glory of TexasDeep Cut85points
- Glove makingDeep Cut85points
- Glucagon injectionDeep Cut85points
- Glucagon kitDeep Cut85points
- Glucose tolerance testDeep Cut85points
- Glue syringeDeep Cut85points
- Goat's Horn CactusDeep Cut85points
- GodadiDeep Cut85points
- Golden Ball CactusDeep Cut85points
- Golden CereusDeep Cut85points
- Golden chested beehiveDeep Cut85points
- Golden ChollaDeep Cut85points
- Golden larchDeep Cut85points
- Golden PricklypearDeep Cut85points
- Golden rat tail cactusDeep Cut85points
- Golden Torch CactusDeep Cut85points
- Golden-spined Prickly-pearDeep Cut85points
- GoldworkDeep Cut85points
- Gongshan Plum YewDeep Cut85points
- Gordon's pineDeep Cut85points
- Gota pattiDeep Cut85points
- Graham's Pincushion CactusDeep Cut85points
- Graham's pricklypearDeep Cut85points
- Grain moisture meterDeep Cut85points
- Grama Grass CactusDeep Cut85points
- Grand firDeep Cut85points
- Grassland PricklypearDeep Cut85points
- Gray pineDeep Cut85points
- Grease gunDeep Cut85points
- Great Basin Fishhook CactusDeep Cut85points
- Greek firDeep Cut85points
- Greek laceDeep Cut85points
- Green sea urchinDeep Cut85points
- Green-flower Hedgehog CactusDeep Cut85points
- Greenflower Nipple CactusDeep Cut85points
- Gregg's pineDeep Cut85points
- Grid compassDeep Cut85points
- GrillDeep Cut85points
- Grill thermometerDeep Cut85points
- Grizzly bear pricklypearDeep Cut85points
- Growth hormone injectionDeep Cut85points
- Guadalupe Mountain foxtail cactusDeep Cut85points
- Guangdong white pineDeep Cut85points
- Guatemalan FirDeep Cut85points
- Guiche piercingDeep Cut85points
- Guitar tunerDeep Cut85points
- Hafada piercingDeep Cut85points
- Hainan Plum YewDeep 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.