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
- DruidDeep Cut85points
- Drum and bugle corps arrangerDeep Cut85points
- Drum and bugle corps drum majorDeep Cut85points
- Dry salterDeep Cut85points
- Duck tour driverDeep Cut85points
- Dynamic positioning operatorDeep Cut85points
- Eagle warriorDeep Cut85points
- ÉcarteurDeep Cut85points
- ECG technicianDeep Cut85points
- EchocardiographerDeep Cut85points
- Egg breakerDeep Cut85points
- Egg candlerDeep Cut85points
- Egg graderDeep Cut85points
- Egg packerDeep Cut85points
- Egyptian charioteerDeep Cut85points
- Egyptian priestDeep Cut85points
- Electrician's mateDeep Cut85points
- Electro-optic instrument repair officerDeep Cut85points
- Electro-optical ordnance repairerDeep Cut85points
- Electro-technical officerDeep Cut85points
- Electroencephalographic recordistDeep Cut85points
- ElectrologistDeep Cut85points
- Electromagnetic spectrum managerDeep Cut85points
- Electromagnetic spectrum maneuver chiefDeep Cut85points
- Electromagnetic spectrum officerDeep Cut85points
- Electromagnetic spectrum operations plannerDeep Cut85points
- Electron microscopistDeep Cut85points
- Electronic warfare officerDeep Cut85points
- Electronic warfare specialistDeep Cut85points
- Electronic warfare technicianDeep Cut85points
- Electronics assemblerDeep Cut85points
- Electronics maintenance chief (aviation C2)Deep Cut85points
- Electronics maintenance officer (ground)Deep Cut85points
- Electrophoretic painting plant operatorDeep Cut85points
- ElectrophysiologistDeep Cut85points
- ElectroplaterDeep Cut85points
- Elevator mechanicDeep Cut85points
- EmbalmerDeep Cut85points
- Embosser operatorDeep Cut85points
- EmbryologistDeep Cut85points
- Emery grinderDeep Cut85points
- EMS physicianDeep Cut85points
- Enamel fuserDeep Cut85points
- Endocrine surgeonDeep Cut85points
- EndocrinologistDeep Cut85points
- EndodontistDeep Cut85points
- Endoscopy technicianDeep Cut85points
- Engine assemblerDeep Cut85points
- Engine cleanerDeep Cut85points
- Engine fitterDeep 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.