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
- Magnehelic gaugeDeep Cut85points
- Main's Nipple-cactusDeep Cut85points
- Maire yewDeep Cut85points
- Malayan porcupineDeep Cut85points
- MammillariaDeep Cut85points
- MammotomeDeep Cut85points
- Mandible piercingDeep Cut85points
- Manifold pressure gaugeDeep Cut85points
- Mann's Yew PlumDeep Cut85points
- ManometerDeep Cut85points
- Mantis piercingDeep Cut85points
- Marble Canyon cactusDeep Cut85points
- Marblefruit pricklypearDeep Cut85points
- Maries's FirDeep Cut85points
- Marine compassDeep Cut85points
- Maritime pineDeep Cut85points
- Martinez PinyonDeep Cut85points
- Martinez's SpruceDeep Cut85points
- Masson's pineDeep Cut85points
- Masters's LarchDeep Cut85points
- MataīDeep Cut85points
- Match-needle cameraDeep Cut85points
- Matted chollaDeep Cut85points
- Mattress makingDeep Cut85points
- Maximowicz's SpruceDeep Cut85points
- McVaugh's pineDeep Cut85points
- Medusa piercingDeep Cut85points
- MegohmmeterDeep Cut85points
- Mesa Verde CactusDeep Cut85points
- Mesoamerican yewDeep Cut85points
- MesotherapyDeep Cut85points
- Metabolic panelDeep Cut85points
- Methotrexate injectionDeep Cut85points
- Mexican Douglas-firDeep Cut85points
- Mexican fence post cactusDeep Cut85points
- Mexican hairy dwarf porcupineDeep Cut85points
- Mexican white pineDeep Cut85points
- Meyer's SpruceDeep Cut85points
- Michoacán PineDeep Cut85points
- Microchip implantDeep Cut85points
- MicroinjectionDeep Cut85points
- Microneedle patchDeep Cut85points
- MicrosyringeDeep Cut85points
- Microwave ablationDeep Cut85points
- Migraine BotoxDeep Cut85points
- Milk frothing thermometerDeep Cut85points
- MillineryDeep Cut85points
- Min FirDeep Cut85points
- Miniature Barrel CactusDeep Cut85points
- MiroDeep 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.