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
- Vertical labret piercingDeep Cut85points
- Vertical speed indicatorDeep Cut85points
- Vertical vermillion piercingDeep Cut85points
- Veterinary syringeDeep Cut85points
- Vietnamese embroideryDeep Cut85points
- Vine-like moonlight cactusDeep Cut85points
- Violet pricklypearDeep Cut85points
- Virginia pineDeep Cut85points
- ViscometerDeep Cut85points
- Vitamin D testDeep Cut85points
- Vitamin K shotDeep Cut85points
- VivitrolDeep Cut85points
- Voss's porcupineDeep Cut85points
- VU meterDeep Cut85points
- Walking foot sewing machineDeep Cut85points
- Wall thermometerDeep Cut85points
- Warnock's fishhook cactusDeep Cut85points
- Warp knittingDeep Cut85points
- Warp knitting machineDeep Cut85points
- Wart injectionDeep Cut85points
- Washoe pineDeep Cut85points
- WattmeterDeep Cut85points
- WavemeterDeep Cut85points
- Weather stationDeep Cut85points
- WeavingDeep Cut85points
- Webb FirDeep Cut85points
- Weft knittingDeep Cut85points
- Welding regulatorDeep Cut85points
- Well pressure tankDeep Cut85points
- Weniger's hedgehog cactusDeep Cut85points
- West Himalayan yewDeep Cut85points
- Western hemlockDeep Cut85points
- Western larchDeep Cut85points
- Western long-beaked echidnaDeep Cut85points
- Western needlegrassDeep Cut85points
- Western white pineDeep Cut85points
- Wheatstone bridgeDeep Cut85points
- Wheel barometerDeep Cut85points
- Whipple chollaDeep Cut85points
- Whipple's fishhook cactusDeep Cut85points
- WhiskerbushDeep Cut85points
- White Barrel CactusDeep Cut85points
- White fishhook cactusDeep Cut85points
- White sea urchinDeep Cut85points
- White torch cactusDeep Cut85points
- White-berry yewDeep Cut85points
- Whitebark pineDeep Cut85points
- Whitecolumn foxtail cactusDeep Cut85points
- WhiteworkDeep Cut85points
- Wig makingDeep 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.