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
- Sweetpotato cactusDeep Cut85points
- Swiss pineDeep Cut85points
- SWR meterDeep Cut85points
- SynchroscopeDeep Cut85points
- SyretteDeep Cut85points
- Syrian juniperDeep Cut85points
- Syringe pumpDeep Cut85points
- Table mountain pineDeep Cut85points
- TachographDeep Cut85points
- Tagging gunDeep Cut85points
- TailoringDeep Cut85points
- Taiwan Black PineDeep Cut85points
- Taiwan Catkin YewDeep Cut85points
- Taiwan FirDeep Cut85points
- Taiwan hemlockDeep Cut85points
- Taiwan SpruceDeep Cut85points
- Taiwan White PineDeep Cut85points
- TaiwaniaDeep Cut85points
- TamarackDeep Cut85points
- Tamaulipas living rock cactusDeep Cut85points
- Tangent galvanometerDeep Cut85points
- TAP blockDeep Cut85points
- Tapao Shan spruceDeep Cut85points
- Tape edge machineDeep Cut85points
- TapestryDeep Cut85points
- TatreezDeep Cut85points
- TattingDeep Cut85points
- Tattoo kitDeep Cut85points
- TCM injectionDeep Cut85points
- TeboriDeep Cut85points
- Teddy bear chollaDeep Cut85points
- TelegraphDeep Cut85points
- Tenango embroideryDeep Cut85points
- Tenasserim PineDeep Cut85points
- Teneriffe laceDeep Cut85points
- TentmakingDeep Cut85points
- Test indicatorDeep Cut85points
- Testicular biopsyDeep Cut85points
- Testicular sperm aspirationDeep Cut85points
- Tetanus immune globulinDeep Cut85points
- Texas Barrel CactusDeep Cut85points
- Texas nipple cactusDeep Cut85points
- Texas pricklypearDeep Cut85points
- Texas rainbow cactusDeep Cut85points
- ThelocactusDeep Cut85points
- ThermohygrometerDeep Cut85points
- ThermostatDeep Cut85points
- Thick-spined porcupineDeep Cut85points
- Thickness gaugeDeep Cut85points
- Thimble 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.