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
- Exhaust fitterDeep Cut85points
- ExpediterDeep Cut85points
- Expeditionary airfield systems technicianDeep Cut85points
- Expeditionary logistics instructorDeep Cut85points
- Explosive workerDeep Cut85points
- Facilities management officerDeep Cut85points
- Farm produce graderDeep Cut85points
- FarrierDeep Cut85points
- Fautasi rowerDeep Cut85points
- FeathermanDeep Cut85points
- Federal Constabulary officerDeep Cut85points
- FeldscherDeep Cut85points
- Female engagement specialistDeep Cut85points
- Ferry workerDeep Cut85points
- Fibreglass laminatorDeep Cut85points
- Field artillery fire direction control MarineDeep Cut85points
- Field artillery radar operatorDeep Cut85points
- Field artillery sensor support MarineDeep Cut85points
- Field artillery surveyorDeep Cut85points
- Field artillery technicianDeep Cut85points
- Field monitoring officerDeep Cut85points
- Fife and drum corps memberDeep Cut85points
- File hardenerDeep Cut85points
- File makerDeep Cut85points
- Filler-loaderDeep Cut85points
- Filling and capping machinistDeep Cut85points
- Film casting machinistDeep Cut85points
- Film cutterDeep Cut85points
- Film sensitiserDeep Cut85points
- Film stripperDeep Cut85points
- Filter bed attendantDeep Cut85points
- Filter house attendantDeep Cut85points
- Filter operatorDeep Cut85points
- Filter presserDeep Cut85points
- Filtration attendantDeep Cut85points
- Final test manDeep Cut85points
- Finance technicianDeep Cut85points
- Fine chemical makerDeep Cut85points
- Finings makerDeep Cut85points
- Finishing catcherDeep Cut85points
- Finishing mill handDeep Cut85points
- Finishing rollerDeep Cut85points
- Fire and safety specialistDeep Cut85points
- Fire beaterDeep Cut85points
- Fire control operatorDeep Cut85points
- Fire control specialistDeep Cut85points
- Fire control technicianDeep Cut85points
- Fire controlmanDeep Cut85points
- Fire dropperDeep Cut85points
- Fire investigatorDeep 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.