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
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- BoatDeep Cut85points
- Bohus StickningDeep Cut85points
- BoilerDeep Cut85points
- Boke's button cactusDeep Cut85points
- Bolivian torch cactusDeep Cut85points
- Bone biopsyDeep Cut85points
- Bonker's hedgehog cactusDeep Cut85points
- BonsaiDeep Cut85points
- Book sewing machineDeep Cut85points
- BookbindingDeep Cut85points
- Boost gaugeDeep Cut85points
- Border pinyonDeep Cut85points
- Border prickly pearDeep Cut85points
- BoroDeep Cut85points
- Bosnian pineDeep Cut85points
- Bourdon gaugeDeep Cut85points
- Bow compassDeep Cut85points
- Boxing glove cactusDeep Cut85points
- Boyce Thompson hedgehog cactusDeep Cut85points
- BrachytherapyDeep Cut85points
- Brachytherapy applicatorDeep Cut85points
- Brady's pincushion cactusDeep Cut85points
- Brain biopsyDeep Cut85points
- Brain cactusDeep Cut85points
- Brake pressure gaugeDeep Cut85points
- Branched pencil chollaDeep Cut85points
- Brandt's hedgehogDeep Cut85points
- Brazilian embroideryDeep Cut85points
- Brazilian porcupineDeep Cut85points
- Brazilian prickly pearDeep Cut85points
- Breast biopsyDeep Cut85points
- Brewer spruceDeep Cut85points
- Bridge piercingDeep Cut85points
- Brine injectorDeep Cut85points
- Brioche knittingDeep Cut85points
- Bristle-spined porcupineDeep Cut85points
- Bristlecone firDeep Cut85points
- Bristlecone hemlockDeep Cut85points
- Bristlecone pineDeep Cut85points
- Brittle prickly pearDeep Cut85points
- Broad-leaved plum yewDeep Cut85points
- Broderie anglaiseDeep Cut85points
- Broderie perseDeep Cut85points
- Brown hairy dwarf porcupineDeep Cut85points
- Brownspine hedgehog 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.