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
- Ice cross racerDeep Cut85points
- Ice rescue technicianDeep Cut85points
- Ice rink attendantDeep Cut85points
- Ice stock athleteDeep Cut85points
- ImmunochemistDeep Cut85points
- ImmunohematologistDeep Cut85points
- ImmunologistDeep Cut85points
- ImmunopathologistDeep Cut85points
- Imperial eunuchDeep Cut85points
- Inca soldierDeep Cut85points
- IncursoreDeep Cut85points
- Independence Dragoon (Brazil)Deep Cut85points
- Indian ScoutDeep Cut85points
- Infantry scoutDeep Cut85points
- Infectious disease physicianDeep Cut85points
- Influence specialistDeep Cut85points
- Instrument repair technician (military)Deep Cut85points
- InstrumentmanDeep Cut85points
- Insulation installerDeep Cut85points
- Integrative medicine physicianDeep Cut85points
- Intelligence Corps soldierDeep Cut85points
- Intelligence data engineerDeep Cut85points
- IntensivistDeep Cut85points
- Interior communications electricianDeep Cut85points
- Interior electricianDeep Cut85points
- Internal Troops soldierDeep Cut85points
- International rules football playerDeep Cut85points
- InternistDeep Cut85points
- Internment/resettlement specialistDeep Cut85points
- Interventional cardiologistDeep Cut85points
- Interventional neuroradiologistDeep Cut85points
- Interventional radiologistDeep Cut85points
- Iraqi Golden Division soldierDeep Cut85points
- Irish dancerDeep Cut85points
- Israel Border Police officerDeep Cut85points
- ITBP jawanDeep Cut85points
- Jægerkorpset operatorDeep Cut85points
- JagdkommandoDeep Cut85points
- JägerDeep Cut85points
- Jaguar warriorDeep Cut85points
- Jai alai playerDeep Cut85points
- Jain monkDeep Cut85points
- Jandarma commandoDeep Cut85points
- JanissaryDeep Cut85points
- Javelin throwerDeep Cut85points
- Jet ski racerDeep Cut85points
- Jet sprint driverDeep Cut85points
- Jewel House WardenDeep Cut85points
- Jewish high priestDeep Cut85points
- Jiaolong commandoDeep 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.