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
- Cuju playerDeep Cut85points
- Cultural village performerDeep Cut85points
- Cumberland and Westmorland wrestlerDeep Cut85points
- CupbearerDeep Cut85points
- Curbside attendantDeep Cut85points
- Currach rowerDeep Cut85points
- CutmanDeep Cut85points
- Cyber capabilities developerDeep Cut85points
- Cyber network defenderDeep Cut85points
- Cyber network operations officerDeep Cut85points
- Cyber operations specialistDeep Cut85points
- Cyber warfare officerDeep Cut85points
- Cyber warfare operatorDeep Cut85points
- Cyber warfare technicianDeep Cut85points
- Cyberspace officerDeep Cut85points
- Cyberspace warfare development officerDeep Cut85points
- Cycle ball playerDeep Cut85points
- Cycle speedway riderDeep Cut85points
- Cytogenetic technologistDeep Cut85points
- CytopathologistDeep Cut85points
- CytotechnologistDeep Cut85points
- DabbawalaDeep Cut85points
- Dahomey AmazonDeep Cut85points
- Damage controlmanDeep Cut85points
- Dambe fighterDeep Cut85points
- Dancing pallbearerDeep Cut85points
- Danish Royal Life GuardDeep Cut85points
- Data processing technicianDeep Cut85points
- Data systems administratorDeep Cut85points
- Data systems engineering officerDeep Cut85points
- Data systems specialistDeep Cut85points
- Data systems technicianDeep Cut85points
- Deer stalkerDeep Cut85points
- Defense Message System specialistDeep Cut85points
- Defense systems analystDeep Cut85points
- Defensive cyberspace weapons officerDeep Cut85points
- Degreasing plant operatorDeep Cut85points
- Dehydration plant operatorDeep Cut85points
- Deli (Ottoman cavalry)Deep Cut85points
- DelimerDeep Cut85points
- Demi-lancerDeep Cut85points
- DeminerDeep Cut85points
- Demolition workerDeep Cut85points
- DeniererDeep Cut85points
- Densification operatorDeep Cut85points
- Dental anesthesiologistDeep Cut85points
- Dental technicianDeep Cut85points
- Dental technician (Navy)Deep Cut85points
- Dental therapistDeep Cut85points
- Depiler operatorDeep 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.