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
- Barbary figDeep Cut85points
- Barbed wire cactusDeep Cut85points
- BarbotageDeep Cut85points
- Bare-bellied hedgehogDeep Cut85points
- BargelloDeep Cut85points
- Baseplate compassDeep Cut85points
- Battenberg laceDeep Cut85points
- Battery testerDeep Cut85points
- Baturite porcupineDeep Cut85points
- Bayahibe roseDeep Cut85points
- BCG shotDeep Cut85points
- Bead knittingDeep Cut85points
- BeadingDeep Cut85points
- Beam compassDeep Cut85points
- Bearing distance indicatorDeep Cut85points
- Beavertail cactusDeep Cut85points
- Beehive cactusDeep Cut85points
- Bell-flower prickly pearDeep Cut85points
- Benadryl shotDeep Cut85points
- Berlandier's hedgehog cactusDeep Cut85points
- Berlin wool workDeep Cut85points
- Bhutan white pineDeep Cut85points
- Bicolored-spined porcupineDeep Cut85points
- Bier blockDeep Cut85points
- Big Bend foxtail cactusDeep Cut85points
- Big Bend prickly pearDeep Cut85points
- Big needle cactusDeep Cut85points
- Big Pine Key prickly pearDeep Cut85points
- Bigcone Douglas-firDeep Cut85points
- Biopsy gunDeep Cut85points
- Bird flu shotDeep Cut85points
- Bishop pineDeep Cut85points
- Bishop's hatDeep Cut85points
- Black dwarf porcupineDeep Cut85points
- Black lace cactusDeep Cut85points
- Black spruceDeep Cut85points
- Black-spined prickly pearDeep Cut85points
- Black-tailed hairy dwarf porcupineDeep Cut85points
- BlackworkDeep Cut85points
- Blaine fishhook cactusDeep Cut85points
- Bleed valveDeep Cut85points
- Blind prickly pearDeep Cut85points
- Blind stitch machineDeep Cut85points
- Blood bagDeep Cut85points
- Blood collection setDeep Cut85points
- Blood cultureDeep Cut85points
- Blood dopingDeep Cut85points
- Blood gas syringeDeep Cut85points
- Blood type testDeep Cut85points
- Blood-red prickly pearDeep 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.