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
- Command and control interface control officerDeep Cut85points
- Command post controllerDeep Cut85points
- Commercial vehicle enforcement officerDeep Cut85points
- CommissionaireDeep Cut85points
- Common Cryer and Serjeant-at-ArmsDeep Cut85points
- Communications and Information Systems specialistDeep Cut85points
- Competitive diverDeep Cut85points
- Complex family planning specialistDeep Cut85points
- Concrete finisherDeep Cut85points
- ConfectionerDeep Cut85points
- Confined space operativeDeep Cut85points
- Copper tinnerDeep Cut85points
- CorazziereDeep Cut85points
- Core drillerDeep Cut85points
- Coreeda wrestlerDeep Cut85points
- CornermanDeep Cut85points
- Cornish wrestlerDeep Cut85points
- Correctional counselor (Marine Corps)Deep Cut85points
- Cosmetic makerDeep Cut85points
- Cosmetics counter assistantDeep Cut85points
- CossackDeep Cut85points
- Count room attendantDeep Cut85points
- Counter assistantDeep Cut85points
- Counterintelligence specialistDeep Cut85points
- Court lady (China)Deep Cut85points
- Court usherDeep Cut85points
- COVID marshalDeep Cut85points
- Covid testerDeep Cut85points
- CoxswainDeep Cut85points
- Crane technicianDeep Cut85points
- Crank shaft straightenerDeep Cut85points
- Creamery workerDeep Cut85points
- Crematory operatorDeep Cut85points
- Crew chiefDeep Cut85points
- Crime scene cleanerDeep Cut85points
- Critical care technologistDeep Cut85points
- Cross-country skierDeep Cut85points
- CrossbowmanDeep Cut85points
- Crossing keeperDeep Cut85points
- CRPF jawanDeep Cut85points
- CRS officerDeep Cut85points
- Crusher operatorDeep Cut85points
- Cryogenic technicianDeep Cut85points
- Cryogenics equipment operatorDeep Cut85points
- Cryptologic cyberspace analystDeep Cut85points
- Cryptologic network warfare specialistDeep Cut85points
- Cryptologic technicianDeep Cut85points
- CsikósDeep Cut85points
- CSOR operatorDeep Cut85points
- CuirassierDeep 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.