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
- Thin-leaf PineDeep Cut85points
- Third eye piercingDeep Cut85points
- Thistle chollaDeep Cut85points
- ThoracentesisDeep Cut85points
- Thoracentesis kitDeep Cut85points
- Thornber's buckhorn chollaDeep Cut85points
- Thornber's Fishhook CactusDeep Cut85points
- Thread liftDeep Cut85points
- Thread paintingDeep Cut85points
- Thumb compassDeep Cut85points
- Thyroid biopsyDeep Cut85points
- Thyroid blood testDeep Cut85points
- Tibetan Silver FirDeep Cut85points
- Tick-borne encephalitis shotDeep Cut85points
- Tiger-pearDeep Cut85points
- Tigertail SpruceDeep Cut85points
- Tire plug kitDeep Cut85points
- TivaevaeDeep Cut85points
- Tobusch Fishhook CactusDeep Cut85points
- Toda embroideryDeep Cut85points
- Tongue web piercingDeep Cut85points
- TonometerDeep Cut85points
- Toothpick cactusDeep Cut85points
- Top cactusDeep Cut85points
- Torch CactusDeep Cut85points
- Torque angle gaugeDeep Cut85points
- Torque screwdriverDeep Cut85points
- Torque wrenchDeep Cut85points
- TorquemeterDeep Cut85points
- Torrey pineDeep Cut85points
- TorreyaDeep Cut85points
- Total intravenous anesthesiaDeep Cut85points
- TotaraDeep Cut85points
- Toxicology screenDeep Cut85points
- Transistor testerDeep Cut85points
- Transmission temperature gaugeDeep Cut85points
- Transscrotal piercingDeep Cut85points
- Transurethral needle ablationDeep Cut85points
- Transverse lobe piercingDeep Cut85points
- TrapuntoDeep Cut85points
- Trauma kitDeep Cut85points
- Tree cactusDeep Cut85points
- Tree chollaDeep Cut85points
- Tree injectionDeep Cut85points
- Trelease's beavertail pricklypearDeep Cut85points
- Triangle CactusDeep Cut85points
- Triangle piercingDeep Cut85points
- TrichocereusDeep Cut85points
- Trigger point injectionDeep Cut85points
- Trigger shotDeep 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.