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
- Old man of the mountainDeep Cut85points
- Old World porcupineDeep Cut85points
- Oliver's Plum YewDeep Cut85points
- Ommaya reservoirDeep Cut85points
- Opus AnglicanumDeep Cut85points
- Orange SpruceDeep Cut85points
- Orange-spined hairy dwarf porcupineDeep Cut85points
- Orbital piercingDeep Cut85points
- Orcutt's foxtail cactusDeep Cut85points
- Organ Mountain foxtail cactusDeep Cut85points
- Oriental spruceDeep Cut85points
- Outside air temperature gaugeDeep Cut85points
- Oven thermometerDeep Cut85points
- Owl's eye cactusDeep Cut85points
- Oxygen flowmeterDeep Cut85points
- Oxygen pressure gaugeDeep Cut85points
- Oxygen regulatorDeep Cut85points
- Ozone therapyDeep Cut85points
- PachycereusDeep Cut85points
- Pacific silver firDeep Cut85points
- Pacific yewDeep Cut85points
- Pag laceDeep Cut85points
- Pain shotDeep Cut85points
- Paj ntaubDeep Cut85points
- Pale mammillariaDeep Cut85points
- Pale sea urchinDeep Cut85points
- Pancake PricklypearDeep Cut85points
- Panel meterDeep Cut85points
- Paper Pine CactusDeep Cut85points
- Paper Spine CactusDeep Cut85points
- Papershell PinyonDeep Cut85points
- ParacentesisDeep Cut85points
- Paracentesis kitDeep Cut85points
- Paracervical blockDeep Cut85points
- Paraguayan hairy dwarf porcupineDeep Cut85points
- Paravertebral blockDeep Cut85points
- Parenteral nutritionDeep Cut85points
- Pariette cactusDeep Cut85points
- Park Hedgehog CactusDeep Cut85points
- Parking meterDeep Cut85points
- ParodiaDeep Cut85points
- Patient-controlled analgesiaDeep Cut85points
- Patula pineDeep Cut85points
- Peach Springs ChollaDeep Cut85points
- Peak programme meterDeep Cut85points
- Peanut CactusDeep Cut85points
- Pencil chollaDeep Cut85points
- Pendulum scaleDeep Cut85points
- PenetrometerDeep Cut85points
- Penile blockDeep 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.