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
- ChurrasqueiroDeep Cut85points
- Cigarette girlDeep Cut85points
- Circus band musicianDeep Cut85points
- Cirit competitorDeep Cut85points
- CISF jawanDeep Cut85points
- Citizenship judgeDeep Cut85points
- Civil affairs specialistDeep Cut85points
- Civil defence workerDeep Cut85points
- Civil Security Department memberDeep Cut85points
- CJIRU memberDeep Cut85points
- Cleanroom technicianDeep Cut85points
- Clearance diverDeep Cut85points
- Clerk of assizeDeep Cut85points
- Clinical dental technicianDeep Cut85points
- Clinical laboratory scientistDeep Cut85points
- Clinical neurophysiologistDeep Cut85points
- Clinical nurse specialistDeep Cut85points
- Clinical officerDeep Cut85points
- Clinical pharmacologistDeep Cut85points
- Clinical physiologistDeep Cut85points
- Clinical vascular scientistDeep Cut85points
- Clinker manDeep Cut85points
- CNC machinistDeep Cut85points
- Coach attendantDeep Cut85points
- CoachbuilderDeep Cut85points
- CoachmanDeep Cut85points
- Coal heaverDeep Cut85points
- CoalmanDeep Cut85points
- Coast Artillery officerDeep Cut85points
- COBRA commandoDeep Cut85points
- Code enforcement officerDeep Cut85points
- Coke oven workerDeep Cut85points
- Collar-and-elbow wrestlerDeep Cut85points
- Collection management officerDeep Cut85points
- Colorectal surgeonDeep Cut85points
- Combat arms instructorDeep Cut85points
- Combat artistDeep Cut85points
- Combat aviation advisorDeep Cut85points
- Combat controllerDeep Cut85points
- Combat correspondentDeep Cut85points
- Combat engineer equipment operatorDeep Cut85points
- Combat graphics specialistDeep Cut85points
- Combat Hopak competitorDeep Cut85points
- Combat instructorDeep Cut85points
- Combat photographerDeep Cut85points
- Combat rubber reconnaissance craft coxswainDeep Cut85points
- Combat systems operatorDeep Cut85points
- Combat videographerDeep Cut85points
- Combatant diverDeep Cut85points
- Command and control center specialistDeep 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.