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
- Needle loomDeep Cut85points
- Needle minderDeep Cut85points
- Needle oilerDeep Cut85points
- Needle palmDeep Cut85points
- Needle removerDeep Cut85points
- Needle scalerDeep Cut85points
- Needle spikingDeep Cut85points
- Needle swallowingDeep Cut85points
- Needle telegraphDeep Cut85points
- Needle through balloonDeep Cut85points
- Needle valveDeep Cut85points
- Needle vending machineDeep Cut85points
- Needle-leaved totaraDeep Cut85points
- Needle-spined urchinDeep Cut85points
- Needlerun netDeep Cut85points
- Nefertiti piercingDeep Cut85points
- Nellie cory cactusDeep Cut85points
- NeolloydiaDeep Cut85points
- Nerve agent antidote kitDeep Cut85points
- Nerve blockDeep Cut85points
- Nerve root blockDeep Cut85points
- Net makingDeep Cut85points
- New Caledonia YewDeep Cut85points
- New Mexico Prickly-pearDeep Cut85points
- New World porcupineDeep Cut85points
- Nichol's hedgehog cactusDeep Cut85points
- Nickels' Pincushion CactusDeep Cut85points
- Night-blooming cereusDeep Cut85points
- Nikko firDeep Cut85points
- Nipple Beehive CactusDeep Cut85points
- Nordmann firDeep Cut85points
- Norfolk Island pineDeep Cut85points
- North African hedgehogDeep Cut85points
- North American porcupineDeep Cut85points
- Northern Japanese hemlockDeep Cut85points
- Northern white-breasted hedgehogDeep Cut85points
- Norwegian knittingDeep Cut85points
- Nye County fishhook cactusDeep Cut85points
- Nylon Hedgehog CactusDeep Cut85points
- Oaxaca firDeep Cut85points
- Occipital nerve blockDeep Cut85points
- Ocote pineDeep Cut85points
- OhmmeterDeep Cut85points
- Oil level gaugeDeep Cut85points
- Oil quantity indicatorDeep Cut85points
- Oil temperature gaugeDeep Cut85points
- OlagaDeep Cut85points
- Old Lady CactusDeep Cut85points
- Old man cactusDeep Cut85points
- Old Man of the Andes 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.