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
- Lead covererDeep Cut85points
- Lead melterDeep Cut85points
- Lead mill manDeep Cut85points
- Lead moulderDeep Cut85points
- Lead oxide makerDeep Cut85points
- Lead paste mixerDeep Cut85points
- Lead pasterDeep Cut85points
- Lead pipe makerDeep Cut85points
- Lead presserDeep Cut85points
- Lead smelterDeep Cut85points
- Lead softenerDeep Cut85points
- Lead squirterDeep Cut85points
- Leaf beaterDeep Cut85points
- Leaf conditionerDeep Cut85points
- Leaf spring makerDeep Cut85points
- Leaf stemmerDeep Cut85points
- Leaf stripperDeep Cut85points
- Leakage technicianDeep Cut85points
- Leather trimmerDeep Cut85points
- Left luggage attendantDeep Cut85points
- Legal services court reporterDeep Cut85points
- LegalmanDeep Cut85points
- Lehr attendantDeep Cut85points
- Lei greeterDeep Cut85points
- Leisure centre workerDeep Cut85points
- Lemon cutterDeep Cut85points
- Lemon peelerDeep Cut85points
- LengthmanDeep Cut85points
- LeprologistDeep Cut85points
- Lethwei fighterDeep Cut85points
- LevelhandDeep Cut85points
- Leveller (asphalt paving)Deep Cut85points
- LictorDeep Cut85points
- Life support technicianDeep Cut85points
- Life-Saving Service surfmanDeep Cut85points
- Lifeboat crew memberDeep Cut85points
- Lifesaving competitorDeep Cut85points
- Lifestyle medicine physicianDeep Cut85points
- Lifter-upDeep Cut85points
- Light armored reconnaissance officerDeep Cut85points
- Light armored vehicle repairerDeep Cut85points
- Light horsemanDeep Cut85points
- Light platerDeep Cut85points
- Lightning conductor engineerDeep Cut85points
- Lightship manDeep Cut85points
- Lime burnerDeep Cut85points
- Lime yard workerDeep Cut85points
- Line engineerDeep Cut85points
- Line inspectorDeep Cut85points
- Linen machine back tenterDeep 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.