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
- Engine room store keeperDeep Cut85points
- Engine tuberDeep Cut85points
- Engine-room ratingDeep Cut85points
- Engineer assistant (USMC)Deep Cut85points
- Engineer equipment mechanicDeep Cut85points
- Engineer officerDeep Cut85points
- Engineer-drillerDeep Cut85points
- Engineer-mechanicDeep Cut85points
- Engineer's setterDeep Cut85points
- Engineering aideDeep Cut85points
- Engineering craftsmanDeep Cut85points
- Engineering fitterDeep Cut85points
- Engineering grinderDeep Cut85points
- Engineering machinistDeep Cut85points
- Engineering millerDeep Cut85points
- Engineering smithDeep Cut85points
- EnginemanDeep Cut85points
- EnginewrightDeep Cut85points
- Engraver's turnerDeep Cut85points
- Enhanced craftsmanDeep Cut85points
- Enlisted aircrew / aerial observer / gunnerDeep Cut85points
- EnroberDeep Cut85points
- Environmental engineering management officerDeep Cut85points
- Environmental science officer (military)Deep Cut85points
- Environmental services technicianDeep Cut85points
- EpileptologistDeep Cut85points
- Equal opportunity advisor (military)Deep Cut85points
- EquerryDeep Cut85points
- Equestrian vaulterDeep Cut85points
- Equipment operatorDeep Cut85points
- ER technicianDeep Cut85points
- Erection fitterDeep Cut85points
- ErtzainaDeep Cut85points
- Escalator attendantDeep Cut85points
- Escaramuza riderDeep Cut85points
- Esports refereeDeep Cut85points
- Essence makerDeep Cut85points
- Estate engineerDeep Cut85points
- Estates technicianDeep Cut85points
- EstheticianDeep Cut85points
- Ethiopian Imperial BodyguardDeep Cut85points
- Evaporator attendantDeep Cut85points
- Evaporator operatorDeep Cut85points
- Event riderDeep Cut85points
- Event stewardDeep Cut85points
- EvisceratorDeep Cut85points
- EvzoneDeep Cut85points
- Excavator operatorDeep Cut85points
- Excess luggage collectorDeep Cut85points
- ExcubitorDeep 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.