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
- Sinus punctureDeep Cut85points
- Sir David's long-beaked echidnaDeep Cut85points
- Sistan embroideryDeep Cut85points
- Sitka spruceDeep Cut85points
- Skin boosterDeep Cut85points
- Slash pineDeep Cut85points
- Slate pencil urchinDeep Cut85points
- Small CoryphanthaDeep Cut85points
- Small Pincushion CactusDeep Cut85points
- Small-toothed forest hedgehogDeep Cut85points
- Smaller cardon of the Loja provinceDeep Cut85points
- Smallflower fishhook cactusDeep Cut85points
- Smallspine PitayaDeep Cut85points
- Smiley piercingDeep Cut85points
- SmockingDeep Cut85points
- Smooth Prickly PearDeep Cut85points
- Smooth-bark Mexican pineDeep Cut85points
- Snake CactusDeep Cut85points
- Snake chollaDeep Cut85points
- Snake eyes piercingDeep Cut85points
- Sneed's pincushion cactusDeep Cut85points
- Snow totaraDeep Cut85points
- Snowball CactusDeep Cut85points
- Snug piercingDeep Cut85points
- Sock knitting machineDeep Cut85points
- Soil moisture meterDeep Cut85points
- Soil pH testerDeep Cut85points
- Soil tensiometerDeep Cut85points
- Somali hedgehogDeep Cut85points
- Sour pricklypearDeep Cut85points
- Soutache embroideryDeep Cut85points
- Southern African hedgehogDeep Cut85points
- Southern Japanese hemlockDeep Cut85points
- Southern white-breasted hedgehogDeep Cut85points
- Southwestern Barrel CactusDeep Cut85points
- Southwestern White PineDeep Cut85points
- Spanish firDeep Cut85points
- Spanish stenocereusDeep Cut85points
- SpectrophotometerDeep Cut85points
- Sphenopalatine ganglion blockDeep Cut85points
- SpherometerDeep Cut85points
- Spider bites piercingDeep Cut85points
- Spinal cord stimulator trialDeep Cut85points
- Spinier devil’s-claw cactusDeep Cut85points
- SpinifexDeep Cut85points
- Spiny Lilac Flower CactusDeep Cut85points
- Spiny NopalDeep Cut85points
- Spiny Pincushion CactusDeep Cut85points
- SpinystarDeep Cut85points
- Spiral 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.