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
- Force fitness instructorDeep Cut85points
- Force management officerDeep Cut85points
- Foreign area officerDeep Cut85points
- Foreign disclosure representativeDeep Cut85points
- Foreign security forces advisorDeep Cut85points
- Forensic psychophysiologistDeep Cut85points
- Forest fire prevention officerDeep Cut85points
- Forest officerDeep Cut85points
- Forest workerDeep Cut85points
- Forge workerDeep Cut85points
- Forklift mechanicDeep Cut85points
- Forward air controllerDeep Cut85points
- Foundry workerDeep Cut85points
- Frame runnerDeep Cut85points
- Freestyle skierDeep Cut85points
- Freezer workerDeep Cut85points
- Frontex officerDeep Cut85points
- Frontier Corps soldierDeep Cut85points
- FRSC marshalDeep Cut85points
- Fuels specialistDeep Cut85points
- Funeral conductorDeep Cut85points
- Funeral muteDeep Cut85points
- Funicular operatorDeep Cut85points
- Furnace operatorDeep Cut85points
- Gaelic footballerDeep Cut85points
- Gallery attendantDeep Cut85points
- GallowglassDeep Cut85points
- GallusDeep Cut85points
- GalvaniserDeep Cut85points
- GamekeeperDeep Cut85points
- GardaDeep Cut85points
- Garde ÉcossaiseDeep Cut85points
- Garde républicainDeep Cut85points
- Garden hermitDeep Cut85points
- GardianDeep Cut85points
- Garibaldi RedshirtDeep Cut85points
- Garud commandoDeep Cut85points
- Gas compressor operatorDeep Cut85points
- Gas turbine systems technicianDeep Cut85points
- GastroenterologistDeep Cut85points
- Gastroenterology physiologistDeep Cut85points
- Gastroenterology technicianDeep Cut85points
- Gastrointestinal surgeonDeep Cut85points
- Gatka practitionerDeep Cut85points
- General Operations Force officerDeep Cut85points
- Generating station mechanicDeep Cut85points
- GeneticistDeep Cut85points
- Gentleman at ArmsDeep Cut85points
- Gentleman of the Chapel RoyalDeep Cut85points
- Gentleman UsherDeep 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.