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
- Cassette deckDeep Cut85points
- CasuarinaDeep Cut85points
- Caterpillar cactusDeep Cut85points
- CathayaDeep Cut85points
- Catkin yewDeep Cut85points
- Cattle scaleDeep Cut85points
- Caudal blockDeep Cut85points
- Cedar of LebanonDeep Cut85points
- Celiac plexus blockDeep Cut85points
- Central lineDeep Cut85points
- CephalocereusDeep Cut85points
- CerclageDeep Cut85points
- Chain stitch machineDeep Cut85points
- Chain-fruit chollaDeep Cut85points
- Chamba rumalDeep Cut85points
- Changzhou needlework embroideryDeep Cut85points
- Chaoshan embroideryDeep Cut85points
- Chaparral prickly pearDeep Cut85points
- ChebkaDeep Cut85points
- Cheek piercingDeep Cut85points
- Chelation therapyDeep Cut85points
- Cheng's firDeep Cut85points
- Chenille prickly pearDeep Cut85points
- Chest decompressionDeep Cut85points
- Chiapas pineDeep Cut85points
- Chicken scratch embroideryDeep Cut85points
- Chihuahua pineDeep Cut85points
- Chihuahua prickly pearDeep Cut85points
- Chihuahua spruceDeep Cut85points
- Chihuahua white pineDeep Cut85points
- Chihuahuan beehiveDeep Cut85points
- Chihuahuan fishhook cactusDeep Cut85points
- Chikan embroideryDeep Cut85points
- Chikungunya shotDeep Cut85points
- Chilghoza pineDeep Cut85points
- Chin cactusDeep Cut85points
- China firDeep Cut85points
- China yewDeep Cut85points
- Chinese Douglas-firDeep Cut85points
- Chinese juniperDeep Cut85points
- Chinese larchDeep Cut85points
- Chinese patchworkDeep Cut85points
- Chinese plum yewDeep Cut85points
- Chinese prickly juniperDeep Cut85points
- Chinese red pineDeep Cut85points
- Chinese swamp cypressDeep Cut85points
- Chinese torreyaDeep Cut85points
- Chinese white pineDeep Cut85points
- ChiotillaDeep Cut85points
- Chir pineDeep 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.