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
- JineteDeep Cut85points
- Jinrikisha pullerDeep Cut85points
- JinyiweiDeep Cut85points
- Joint fires and effects integratorDeep Cut85points
- Joint terminal attack controllerDeep Cut85points
- Jordanian Royal GuardDeep Cut85points
- Journeyman carpenter (Walz)Deep Cut85points
- JousterDeep Cut85points
- JROTC instructorDeep Cut85points
- JSA guardDeep Cut85points
- JTF2 operatorDeep Cut85points
- Judge advocateDeep Cut85points
- Juice bar attendantDeep Cut85points
- JujutsukaDeep Cut85points
- Jukendo practitionerDeep Cut85points
- Jumbo operatorDeep Cut85points
- JumpmasterDeep Cut85points
- Kaatsen playerDeep Cut85points
- Kabaddi playerDeep Cut85points
- KaibilDeep Cut85points
- Kaiseki chefDeep Cut85points
- Kalaripayattu practitionerDeep Cut85points
- KampfschwimmerDeep Cut85points
- KandidatosDeep Cut85points
- KapıcıDeep Cut85points
- Kart racerDeep Cut85points
- KATUSADeep Cut85points
- KavassDeep Cut85points
- KeekerDeep Cut85points
- Keirin racerDeep Cut85points
- KendokaDeep Cut85points
- Kennel attendantDeep Cut85points
- Keno runnerDeep Cut85points
- KettlemanDeep Cut85points
- Key cutterDeep Cut85points
- KhidmatgarDeep Cut85points
- Kho kho playerDeep Cut85points
- Khuresh wrestlerDeep Cut85points
- Kids club attendantDeep Cut85points
- Kin-ball playerDeep Cut85points
- King's Troop gunnerDeep Cut85points
- KippererDeep Cut85points
- Kit manDeep Cut85points
- Knight HospitallerDeep Cut85points
- Koevoet memberDeep Cut85points
- Kohen (Temple priest)Deep Cut85points
- KomusoDeep Cut85points
- Kopasgat commandoDeep Cut85points
- Kopaska diverDeep Cut85points
- Kopassus soldierDeep 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.