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
- Blood transfusionRare60points
- Blue spruceRare60points
- Bone marrow biopsyRare60points
- BotoxRare60points
- CannulaRare60points
- CarburetorRare60points
- Cartilage piercingRare60points
- CedarRare60points
- ChemotherapyRare60points
- Chickenpox shotRare60points
- Cholesterol testRare60points
- ChollaRare60points
- CockpitRare60points
- ConiferRare60points
- Continuous glucose monitorRare60points
- Cortisone shotRare60points
- COVID vaccineRare60points
- CrochetRare60points
- Cross-stitchRare60points
- DarningRare60points
- DashboardRare60points
- Dental syringeRare60points
- Derma rollerRare60points
- DialysisRare60points
- Douglas firRare60points
- Dragon fruit cactusRare60points
- Drawing compassRare60points
- Dry needlingRare60points
- DTaP vaccineRare60points
- Ear piercingRare60points
- Eastern white pineRare60points
- EchidnaRare60points
- EKG machineRare60points
- ElectrolysisRare60points
- EmbroideryRare60points
- Embroidery machineRare60points
- EpiduralRare60points
- EuthanasiaRare60points
- EvergreenRare60points
- Eyebrow piercingRare60points
- FillerRare60points
- Finger prick testRare60points
- Fire extinguisherRare60points
- First aid kitRare60points
- Four-toed hedgehogRare60points
- Fraser firRare60points
- Fuel gaugeRare60points
- GaugeRare60points
- Geiger counterRare60points
- Golden barrel cactusRare60points
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.