Recorded answers
721 recorded answers
How to approach it
Work through the animal body as a supply chain rather than as food. Take a mental inventory in layers: outer coverings, hard parts, internal organs and fluids, and the residues left after processing. For each layer, sweep across industries that consume it — clothing and upholstery, cosmetics, hospital medicine, adhesives, fertiliser, instrument making, and traditional crafts. Then push past the obvious entries by recalling trade vocabulary: words that appear on ingredient labels, in conservation manuals, or in regional craft descriptions. Plural forms and technical synonyms usually unlock extra matches, and highly specific variants score better than generic ones. Finally, verify the exclusion: if the item is eaten as meat or belongs to the dairy group, drop it and look again.
Get a hint
Start with the broadest reading: the animal kingdom supplies raw stock to industries far beyond the dinner plate, from clothing workshops to hospital pharmacies.
A little more
Then narrow by function: ask whether the substance is a structural body part, a fluid or secretion, a casing, or a residue left behind after the animal is processed.
One step further
Aim for the specialised end of the supply chain: substances named in older trade vocabularies, pharmaceutical isolates and craft terms that rarely appear in ordinary conversation.
Reveal answers 721
- Salem silkDeep Cut85points
- Salish woolly dog hairDeep Cut85points
- Salmon DNADeep Cut85points
- Salmon leatherDeep Cut85points
- SaloDeep Cut85points
- Salted eggDeep Cut85points
- SamiteDeep Cut85points
- Sawfish rostrumDeep Cut85points
- Saxony woolDeep Cut85points
- SchmaltzDeep Cut85points
- Sea otter furDeep Cut85points
- Sea urchin spinesDeep Cut85points
- Seal oilDeep Cut85points
- SendalDeep Cut85points
- SepiaDeep Cut85points
- SeraticinDeep Cut85points
- SericinDeep Cut85points
- Sevruga caviarDeep Cut85points
- Shad roeDeep Cut85points
- ShagreenDeep Cut85points
- ShahtooshDeep Cut85points
- Shankh bhasmaDeep Cut85points
- Sheep tail fatDeep Cut85points
- Shell limeDeep Cut85points
- Shellac waxDeep Cut85points
- Shetland woolDeep Cut85points
- Shrimp mealDeep Cut85points
- Shringa bhasmaDeep Cut85points
- Shropshire woolDeep Cut85points
- Siberian sturgeon caviarDeep Cut85points
- Sidr honeyDeep Cut85points
- Silk cocoonDeep Cut85points
- Silk fiber paperDeep Cut85points
- Silk noilDeep Cut85points
- Silk powderDeep Cut85points
- Silkworm droppingsDeep Cut85points
- Silver fox furDeep Cut85points
- SinewDeep Cut85points
- SkiverDeep Cut85points
- Skunk furDeep Cut85points
- Skunk oilDeep Cut85points
- Slavonian honeyDeep Cut85points
- SlumgumDeep Cut85points
- SlunkDeep Cut85points
- Snake bileDeep Cut85points
- Snake sloughDeep Cut85points
- Snow leopard furDeep Cut85points
- Soay woolDeep Cut85points
- Sodium morrhuateDeep Cut85points
- Sole leatherDeep Cut85points
Why these answers count
The reveal is unusually generous: 721 recorded answers, 703 of which cleared 60 points. That shape tells you the question was tested as a wide net, not a narrow key. The middle band is where almost everything landed, with 577 answers at 85 points, while 125 sat at the 60-point floor and exactly one reached 100. Sea silk, the single maximum, is a material so obscure that most players would never retrieve it under time pressure, so it earns the outlier score. Entries such as Abbamele, Adrenaline or Alpaca fur show what the 85 band looks like: precise, slightly technical or regional names that still sit recognisably inside the category. Nothing in the reveal suggests that guessing a plain, everyday term is punished harshly — it simply parks you at the floor. The practical lesson is to write the specific version of whatever you first think of, then add a second, stranger variant if the clock allows.