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
- Cook pineDeep Cut85points
- Cooper's pineDeep Cut85points
- Coral CactusDeep Cut85points
- Cord blood collectionDeep Cut85points
- CordocentesisDeep Cut85points
- Corkbark FirDeep Cut85points
- Corkseed Pincushion CactusDeep Cut85points
- Corncob CactusDeep Cut85points
- CorryocactusDeep Cut85points
- Corset piercingDeep Cut85points
- CorsetryDeep Cut85points
- Cory-Cactus HedgehogDeep Cut85points
- Cosmetic acupunctureDeep Cut85points
- Costa Rica Nightblooming CactusDeep Cut85points
- Costume makingDeep Cut85points
- Cotton Ball CactusDeep Cut85points
- Cottontop cactusDeep Cut85points
- Coulter pineDeep Cut85points
- Counted-thread embroideryDeep Cut85points
- Counterclockwise Nipple CactusDeep Cut85points
- Course deviation indicatorDeep Cut85points
- Coverstitch machineDeep Cut85points
- Cow's tongue cactusDeep Cut85points
- Cowichan knittingDeep Cut85points
- Crane scaleDeep Cut85points
- Crash cartDeep Cut85points
- Crested porcupineDeep Cut85points
- Crewel embroideryDeep Cut85points
- CricothyrotomyDeep Cut85points
- Crochet braidsDeep Cut85points
- Crown CactusDeep Cut85points
- Crowned sea urchinDeep Cut85points
- CryoablationDeep Cut85points
- Cuban PineDeep Cut85points
- CuldocentesisDeep Cut85points
- Cushion foxtail cactusDeep Cut85points
- CutworkDeep Cut85points
- Cyber bites piercingDeep Cut85points
- Cylinder head temperature gaugeDeep Cut85points
- Cyprus cedarDeep Cut85points
- Dabieshan pineDeep Cut85points
- Dagger cactusDeep Cut85points
- Dagger chollaDeep Cut85points
- Dahlia Hedgehog CactusDeep Cut85points
- Dahlia piercingDeep Cut85points
- Dahurian larchDeep Cut85points
- Daith piercingDeep Cut85points
- Dalat White PineDeep Cut85points
- Daurian hedgehogDeep Cut85points
- Dawn redwoodDeep 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.