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
- Highway traffic officerDeep Cut85points
- HikeshiDeep Cut85points
- HIMARS operatorDeep Cut85points
- Hisbah officerDeep Cut85points
- HistopathologistDeep Cut85points
- Historical officerDeep Cut85points
- HistotechnologistDeep Cut85points
- HitcherDeep Cut85points
- HM Coastguard officerDeep Cut85points
- Hoarding erectorDeep Cut85points
- Hobby therapistDeep Cut85points
- Hod carrierDeep Cut85points
- Hoist operatorDeep Cut85points
- HolerDeep Cut85points
- Holiday camp workerDeep Cut85points
- Holiday repDeep Cut85points
- Home Guard (India)Deep Cut85points
- Hopper attendantDeep Cut85points
- Horizontal construction engineerDeep Cut85points
- Hornussen playerDeep Cut85points
- Hors d'oeuvrierDeep Cut85points
- Horse box repairerDeep Cut85points
- Horseball playerDeep Cut85points
- HosemanDeep Cut85points
- Hospital porterDeep Cut85points
- HospitalistDeep Cut85points
- Hot dip assistantDeep Cut85points
- Hotel engineerDeep Cut85points
- HousecarlDeep Cut85points
- Household Cavalry trooperDeep Cut85points
- Hovercraft pilotDeep Cut85points
- Hull maintenance technicianDeep Cut85points
- Human intelligence collectorDeep Cut85points
- Hungarian Holy Crown GuardDeep Cut85points
- Hunt servantDeep Cut85points
- HuntsmanDeep Cut85points
- HurdlerDeep Cut85points
- HurlerDeep Cut85points
- Hurricane HunterDeep Cut85points
- Húsares de JunínDeep Cut85points
- HVAC technician (military)Deep Cut85points
- Hydro blasterDeep Cut85points
- HydrotherapistDeep Cut85points
- HypaspistDeep Cut85points
- Hype squad memberDeep Cut85points
- Hyperbaric medicine physicianDeep Cut85points
- Hyperbaric technicianDeep Cut85points
- IaidokaDeep Cut85points
- Ice cream tricycle manDeep Cut85points
- Ice crew memberDeep 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.