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
- Southdown woolDeep Cut85points
- Sperm oilDeep Cut85points
- SpermacetiDeep Cut85points
- Spider silkDeep Cut85points
- Split leatherDeep Cut85points
- SpondylusDeep Cut85points
- SqualeneDeep Cut85points
- Squirrel furDeep Cut85points
- Squirrel hairDeep Cut85points
- Sterlet caviarDeep Cut85points
- Stingless bee honeyDeep Cut85points
- Stingray leatherDeep Cut85points
- Suffolk woolDeep Cut85points
- SuintDeep Cut85points
- Sundarban honeyDeep Cut85points
- Suri alpaca fiberDeep Cut85points
- Swaledale woolDeep Cut85points
- SwansdownDeep Cut85points
- Sweetfish roeDeep Cut85points
- Targhee woolDeep Cut85points
- Teeswater woolDeep Cut85points
- TeethDeep Cut85points
- TekheletDeep Cut85points
- Tensan silkDeep Cut85points
- TetrodotoxinDeep Cut85points
- Texel woolDeep Cut85points
- Thai silkDeep Cut85points
- Thymus extractDeep Cut85points
- Tiffany silkDeep Cut85points
- Tiger boneDeep Cut85points
- Tilapia skinDeep Cut85points
- Toad venomDeep Cut85points
- TobikoDeep Cut85points
- Triton shellDeep Cut85points
- Trochus shellDeep Cut85points
- Trout roeDeep Cut85points
- TrypsinDeep Cut85points
- TsumugiDeep Cut85points
- Tupelo honeyDeep Cut85points
- Turkey eggsDeep Cut85points
- Turtle eggsDeep Cut85points
- Turtle leatherDeep Cut85points
- Turtle oilDeep Cut85points
- Turtle plastronDeep Cut85points
- Tussah silkDeep Cut85points
- Tyrian purpleDeep Cut85points
- Vermicompost (worm castings)Deep Cut85points
- VicuñaDeep Cut85points
- Viscacha furDeep Cut85points
- Vitamin D3Deep 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.