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
- Mirror compassDeep Cut85points
- Missouri fox-tail cactusDeep Cut85points
- Mistletoe cactusDeep Cut85points
- Moisture meterDeep Cut85points
- Mojave Fishhook CactusDeep Cut85points
- Mojave kingcup cactusDeep Cut85points
- Mojave pricklypearDeep Cut85points
- Momi FirDeep Cut85points
- Monkey Tail CactusDeep Cut85points
- Monoclonal antibody injectionDeep Cut85points
- Monroe piercingDeep Cut85points
- Monterey pineDeep Cut85points
- Montezuma cypressDeep Cut85points
- Montezuma pineDeep Cut85points
- Moon cactusDeep Cut85points
- Moonlight cactusDeep Cut85points
- Moreton Bay pineDeep Cut85points
- Morinda SpruceDeep Cut85points
- Moroccan firDeep Cut85points
- Mosaic knittingDeep Cut85points
- MotorcycleDeep Cut85points
- Mountain ball cactusDeep Cut85points
- Mountain hemlockDeep Cut85points
- Mountain PineDeep Cut85points
- Mountmellick embroideryDeep Cut85points
- Mouse Tail CactusDeep Cut85points
- Mt Spurgeon Black PineDeep Cut85points
- Mugo pineDeep Cut85points
- Munz's chollaDeep Cut85points
- Muscle biopsyDeep Cut85points
- MyelogramDeep Cut85points
- NalebindingDeep Cut85points
- Naloxone auto-injectorDeep Cut85points
- Naloxone injectionDeep Cut85points
- ÑandutíDeep Cut85points
- NanoneedlingDeep Cut85points
- Nape piercingDeep Cut85points
- Narrow-leaf araucariaDeep Cut85points
- Nasallang piercingDeep Cut85points
- Navajo Bridge pricklypearDeep Cut85points
- Navajo pincushion cactusDeep Cut85points
- Needle bearingDeep Cut85points
- Needle bushDeep Cut85points
- Needle damDeep Cut85points
- Needle decompression kitDeep Cut85points
- Needle divinationDeep Cut85points
- Needle firDeep Cut85points
- Needle holderDeep Cut85points
- Needle juniperDeep Cut85points
- Needle laceDeep 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.