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
- De Laubenfels' araucariaDeep Cut85points
- Decibel meterDeep Cut85points
- DeclinometerDeep Cut85points
- Deep shaft piercingDeep Cut85points
- Deering's tree cactusDeep Cut85points
- Delavay's FirDeep Cut85points
- Dengue shotDeep Cut85points
- Dental anesthesiaDeep Cut85points
- Deodar cedarDeep Cut85points
- Depot injectionDeep Cut85points
- Depth gaugeDeep Cut85points
- Derma stampDeep Cut85points
- Dermal piercingDeep Cut85points
- Desert hedgehogDeep Cut85points
- Desert Valley Fishhook CactusDeep Cut85points
- Deshilado de AguascalientesDeep Cut85points
- Despain's pincushion cactusDeep Cut85points
- Devil chollaDeep Cut85points
- Devil's chollaDeep Cut85points
- Devil's Tongue CactusDeep Cut85points
- DevilthornDeep Cut85points
- Dial bore gaugeDeep Cut85points
- Dial caliperDeep Cut85points
- Dial indicatorDeep Cut85points
- Dialysis machineDeep Cut85points
- Diaphragm pressure gaugeDeep Cut85points
- Digital blockDeep Cut85points
- Dip circleDeep Cut85points
- DiscogramDeep Cut85points
- Dissecting kitDeep Cut85points
- Distortion meterDeep Cut85points
- DividersDeep Cut85points
- Diving compassDeep Cut85points
- Diving regulatorDeep Cut85points
- Doctor's bagDeep Cut85points
- Doll makingDeep Cut85points
- Dollarjoint pricklypearDeep Cut85points
- Dolphin bites piercingDeep Cut85points
- Domino cactusDeep Cut85points
- Double knittingDeep Cut85points
- Douglas PineDeep Cut85points
- Dragon SpruceDeep Cut85points
- Drawn thread workDeep Cut85points
- DressmakingDeep Cut85points
- Dreyse needle gunDeep Cut85points
- Drooping Prickly Pear CactusDeep Cut85points
- DrypointDeep Cut85points
- Duncan's foxtail cactusDeep Cut85points
- Durango FirDeep Cut85points
- Durango 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.