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
- Depolariser mixerDeep Cut85points
- Depository handDeep Cut85points
- DepotmanDeep Cut85points
- DermatopathologistDeep Cut85points
- DerrickmanDeep Cut85points
- Deseaming operatorDeep Cut85points
- DesilveriserDeep Cut85points
- Despatch riderDeep Cut85points
- Detection dog handlerDeep Cut85points
- Detonator makerDeep Cut85points
- Developmental pediatricianDeep Cut85points
- Devon wrestlerDeep Cut85points
- Dextrin calcinerDeep Cut85points
- Dialysis technicianDeep Cut85points
- Dickens carolerDeep Cut85points
- Die and mill hardenerDeep Cut85points
- Die casterDeep Cut85points
- Dietary aideDeep Cut85points
- DietitianDeep Cut85points
- Diffuser attendantDeep Cut85points
- Digester workerDeep Cut85points
- Digital wideband systems maintainerDeep Cut85points
- Dim sum chefDeep Cut85points
- Dining car stewardDeep Cut85points
- Dinner-show knightDeep Cut85points
- Direct ladle manDeep Cut85points
- Directional drillerDeep Cut85points
- Director, The President's Own (U.S. Marine Band)Deep Cut85points
- Disaster medicine physicianDeep Cut85points
- Disbursing clerk (Navy)Deep Cut85points
- Disintegrator operatorDeep Cut85points
- Distillery workerDeep Cut85points
- Distribution Management OfficerDeep Cut85points
- Distribution Management SpecialistDeep Cut85points
- Diver's tenderDeep Cut85points
- DjigitDeep Cut85points
- Downtown ambassadorDeep Cut85points
- DrabantDeep Cut85points
- Draftsman (Navy)Deep Cut85points
- Drag racerDeep Cut85points
- Dragline operatorDeep Cut85points
- Dragon boat racerDeep Cut85points
- Drain layerDeep Cut85points
- DraymanDeep Cut85points
- Dredge operatorDeep Cut85points
- Dredge workerDeep Cut85points
- Dredger engineerDeep Cut85points
- Dredger operatorDeep Cut85points
- Dressage riderDeep Cut85points
- DrossmanDeep 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.