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
- ApplecactusDeep Cut85points
- AppliquéDeep Cut85points
- Arbacia lixulaDeep Cut85points
- Arborescent prickly pearDeep Cut85points
- Areola tattooDeep Cut85points
- Argentan laceDeep Cut85points
- ArgentellaDeep Cut85points
- Arizona hedgehog cactusDeep Cut85points
- Arizona pencil chollaDeep Cut85points
- Arizona pineDeep Cut85points
- Arizona rainbow cactusDeep Cut85points
- Armenian needle laceDeep Cut85points
- Arterial blood gasDeep Cut85points
- Arterial lineDeep Cut85points
- ArthrocentesisDeep Cut85points
- ArthrogramDeep Cut85points
- Artichoke cactusDeep Cut85points
- Ashley piercingDeep Cut85points
- Asian limestone yewDeep Cut85points
- Asian spruceDeep Cut85points
- Asiatic brush-tailed porcupineDeep Cut85points
- Asparagus fernDeep Cut85points
- Assam catkin yewDeep Cut85points
- Assisi embroideryDeep Cut85points
- AstrophytumDeep Cut85points
- Atlantic purple sea urchinDeep Cut85points
- Atlas cedarDeep Cut85points
- Auricular acupunctureDeep Cut85points
- Austin bar piercingDeep Cut85points
- Austrian pineDeep Cut85points
- AutoclaveDeep Cut85points
- Automatic direction finderDeep Cut85points
- AutosamplerDeep Cut85points
- Axillary blockDeep Cut85points
- Azimuth compassDeep Cut85points
- Azores juniperDeep Cut85points
- Baby scaleDeep Cut85points
- Back dimple piercingDeep Cut85points
- Bag closerDeep Cut85points
- Bahia porcupineDeep Cut85points
- Bailey's hedgehog cactusDeep Cut85points
- Baishan firDeep Cut85points
- Baja California cochemieaDeep Cut85points
- Balance scaleDeep Cut85points
- Bald cypressDeep Cut85points
- Ball cactusDeep Cut85points
- Balochi needleworkDeep Cut85points
- Banded sea urchinDeep Cut85points
- Bar tack machineDeep Cut85points
- Barbados GooseberryDeep 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.