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
- Brownspine prickly pearDeep Cut85points
- Brownspined prickly pearDeep Cut85points
- Brucellosis shotDeep Cut85points
- Brush-tailed porcupineDeep Cut85points
- Buckhorn chollaDeep Cut85points
- Bulgarian firDeep Cut85points
- Bulking injectionDeep Cut85points
- BullsuckersDeep Cut85points
- Bulrush Canyon prickly pearDeep Cut85points
- Bunched cory cactusDeep Cut85points
- Bunka shishuDeep Cut85points
- Bunny ears cactusDeep Cut85points
- Bunsen burnerDeep Cut85points
- Burano laceDeep Cut85points
- Burrowing urchinDeep Cut85points
- BusDeep Cut85points
- Butt injectionsDeep Cut85points
- Button cactusDeep Cut85points
- Button sewing machineDeep Cut85points
- Buttonhole machineDeep Cut85points
- C-reactive protein testDeep Cut85points
- Cabin pressure gaugeDeep Cut85points
- Cable knittingDeep Cut85points
- Cactus urchinDeep Cut85points
- Cake testerDeep Cut85points
- California barrel cactusDeep Cut85points
- California chollaDeep Cut85points
- Canaan firDeep Cut85points
- Canada yewDeep Cut85points
- Canary Islands juniperDeep Cut85points
- Canary Islands pineDeep Cut85points
- Cancer vaccineDeep Cut85points
- Candelabra cactusDeep Cut85points
- Candle chollaDeep Cut85points
- Candlestick scaleDeep Cut85points
- CandlewickingDeep Cut85points
- Candy thermometerDeep Cut85points
- Canine bites piercingDeep Cut85points
- Cape porcupineDeep Cut85points
- Cape sea urchinDeep Cut85points
- Capsule pressure gaugeDeep Cut85points
- CarDeep Cut85points
- Car compassDeep Cut85points
- Carburetor temperature gaugeDeep Cut85points
- CardonDeep Cut85points
- Caribbean applecactusDeep Cut85points
- Caribbean pineDeep Cut85points
- Carolina hemlockDeep Cut85points
- Carpet foxtail cactusDeep Cut85points
- Carrickmacross laceDeep 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.