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
- PincushionRare60points
- Plasma donationRare60points
- Pneumonia shotRare60points
- Polio shotRare60points
- PolygraphRare60points
- Ponderosa pineRare60points
- Pressure cookerRare60points
- Pressure gaugeRare60points
- Prickly pearRare60points
- Prince Albert piercingRare60points
- Produce scaleRare60points
- Propane tankRare60points
- QuiltingRare60points
- Rabies shotRare60points
- RedwoodRare60points
- Rook piercingRare60points
- RSV shotRare60points
- Rubella shotRare60points
- SaguaroRare60points
- Scots pineRare60points
- SeismographRare60points
- Septum piercingRare60points
- SergerRare60points
- Sewing boxRare60points
- Sharps containerRare60points
- Shingles shotRare60points
- Smallpox vaccineRare60points
- Snake bites piercingRare60points
- Spinal anesthesiaRare60points
- Spinal tapRare60points
- Stick and pokeRare60points
- TachometerRare60points
- TB testRare60points
- Tdap vaccineRare60points
- Temperature gaugeRare60points
- Testosterone injectionRare60points
- ThermometerRare60points
- Tire inflatorRare60points
- Tire pressure gaugeRare60points
- Tongue piercingRare60points
- Tragus piercingRare60points
- Tranquilizer dartRare60points
- Typhoid shotRare60points
- VictrolaRare60points
- Vitamin shotRare60points
- VoltmeterRare60points
- White firRare60points
- White spruceRare60points
- Yellow fever shotRare60points
- YewRare60points
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.