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
- Fire police officerDeep Cut85points
- Fire prooferDeep Cut85points
- Fire salvage officerDeep Cut85points
- Fire support specialistDeep Cut85points
- Fire wardenDeep Cut85points
- Fire watcherDeep Cut85points
- Firework makerDeep Cut85points
- First hand melterDeep Cut85points
- Fish cake makerDeep Cut85points
- Fish farm workerDeep Cut85points
- Fish filleterDeep Cut85points
- Fish fryerDeep Cut85points
- Fish lumperDeep Cut85points
- Fish processorDeep Cut85points
- Fisheries officerDeep Cut85points
- FishwifeDeep Cut85points
- Fistball playerDeep Cut85points
- Fitter and erectorDeep Cut85points
- Fitter and turnerDeep Cut85points
- Fitter-welderDeep Cut85points
- Fixed-wing transport aircraft specialist (C-20)Deep Cut85points
- Fixed-wing transport aircraft specialist (C-9)Deep Cut85points
- Fixed-wing transport aircraft specialist (KC-130J)Deep Cut85points
- Fixed-wing transport aircraft specialist (UC-35)Deep Cut85points
- Fixed-wing transport aircraft specialist, C-12Deep Cut85points
- Flag throwerDeep Cut85points
- Flame cutterDeep Cut85points
- FlamenDeep Cut85points
- Flamethrower operatorDeep Cut85points
- Flaminica DialisDeep Cut85points
- Flight catererDeep Cut85points
- Flight despatcherDeep Cut85points
- Flight engineerDeep Cut85points
- Flight equipment technicianDeep Cut85points
- Flight mechanicDeep Cut85points
- Flight nurseDeep Cut85points
- Flight radio operatorDeep Cut85points
- Flight surgeonDeep Cut85points
- Floor traderDeep Cut85points
- Floorball playerDeep Cut85points
- Flotation workerDeep Cut85points
- Flying doctorDeep Cut85points
- Food packerDeep Cut85points
- Food processing workerDeep Cut85points
- Food runnerDeep Cut85points
- Food scientistDeep Cut85points
- Food service officerDeep Cut85points
- Foot and ankle surgeonDeep Cut85points
- ForcadoDeep Cut85points
- Force deployment planning and execution officerDeep 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.