Krillion Recorded answers
3,242 recorded answers
How to approach it
Work sector by sector, writing down four or five roles for each before judging any of them: ceremonial and religious duties, armed forces and emergency services, maritime and aviation work, healthcare, heavy industry, transport, hospitality, sport and entertainment. The obvious label in each sector is the weakest submission, so keep pushing toward the narrower version of it, the rank, the specialism, the single machine, the one event of the year. Titles that combine a task with a garment, a piece of equipment or a rank do well, and so do institutional names from outside the English-speaking world. Check each candidate against the plain test of whether the clothing is compulsory, then submit the strangest one you can honestly defend.
Get a hint
Start from the garment rather than the job: think of roles you would recognise across a room by a cap, an apron, a badge or a reflective stripe.
A little more
Then drop a level in every sector and note the posts nobody lists first: those tied to one ceremony, one vessel, one ward or one season of the year outscore the general label.
One step further
Finish with compound titles that fuse a duty with a detail of dress or kit, and with institutional names drawn from armed forces, religious communities and old households.
Reveal answers 3,242
- GyojiOne in a Krillion100points
- Abdi dalemDeep Cut85points
- Abraham Lincoln presenterDeep Cut85points
- Abrasive blasterDeep Cut85points
- Acid dipperDeep Cut85points
- Acoso y derribo riderDeep Cut85points
- Acute physicianDeep Cut85points
- Ada programmer (Marines)Deep Cut85points
- Addiction medicine physicianDeep Cut85points
- Additive manufacturing specialistDeep Cut85points
- AdjutantDeep Cut85points
- Adjutant General's Corps clerkDeep Cut85points
- Adolescent medicine physicianDeep Cut85points
- Adult congenital heart disease cardiologistDeep Cut85points
- Advanced clinical practitionerDeep Cut85points
- Aerial erectorDeep Cut85points
- Aerial observerDeep Cut85points
- Aerial porterDeep Cut85points
- Aerobatic pilotDeep Cut85points
- Aerographer's mateDeep Cut85points
- Aeromedical evacuation technicianDeep Cut85points
- Aerospace medical technicianDeep Cut85points
- Agricultural mechanicDeep Cut85points
- Aide-de-campDeep Cut85points
- AikidokaDeep Cut85points
- Air assault soldierDeep Cut85points
- Air command and control officerDeep Cut85points
- Air defense artillerymanDeep Cut85points
- Air defense battle management system operatorDeep Cut85points
- Air defense early warning system operatorDeep Cut85points
- Air despatcherDeep Cut85points
- Air Force historianDeep Cut85points
- Air Force nurseDeep Cut85points
- Air gunnerDeep Cut85points
- Air racerDeep Cut85points
- Air raid wardenDeep Cut85points
- Air traffic control radar technicianDeep Cut85points
- Airborne ISR operatorDeep Cut85points
- Airborne linguistDeep Cut85points
- Airborne sensor operatorDeep Cut85points
- Aircraft apprenticeDeep Cut85points
- Aircraft cleanerDeep Cut85points
- Aircraft de-icerDeep Cut85points
- Aircraft despatcherDeep Cut85points
- Aircraft electricianDeep Cut85points
- Aircraft fuelerDeep Cut85points
- Aircraft maintenance data specialistDeep Cut85points
- Aircraft metals technicianDeep Cut85points
- Aircraft painterDeep Cut85points
- Aircraft pneudraulics repairerDeep Cut85points
Why these answers count
The scoring here is a rarity ladder, not a correctness test, which is why the same broad profession can land at the bottom while an obscure variant of it tops the table. Of 3242 recorded answers, 3161 reached at least sixty points, and almost all of those, 2797, sat in the eighty-five band: valid and specific, but shared with enough other players to be common. Only one answer reached a hundred, the ceremonial referee title Gyoji, and that outlier shows how thin the top of the field was. Everything at eighty-five earns the same, whether it is the Indonesian court servant Abdi dalem, the impersonator billed as Abraham Lincoln presenter, or the industrial-sounding Aircraft de-icer; the puzzle does not rank one above another. The 363 answers capped at sixty are the familiar ones, the broad labels most people reach for first, and choosing them means settling for the floor.