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
- Linen room attendantDeep Cut85points
- Liner-offDeep Cut85points
- LinisherDeep Cut85points
- Linoleum makerDeep Cut85points
- Linotype fitterDeep Cut85points
- Linseed cake manDeep Cut85points
- Lion dancerDeep Cut85points
- Liquor storage attendantDeep Cut85points
- Liquorice boilerDeep Cut85points
- Liquorice handDeep Cut85points
- Litter wardenDeep Cut85points
- Lloyd's waiterDeep Cut85points
- LoadmasterDeep Cut85points
- Lobby attendantDeep Cut85points
- Lock keeperDeep Cut85points
- Lock makerDeep Cut85points
- Lock platerDeep Cut85points
- Locker room attendantDeep Cut85points
- Locking fitterDeep Cut85points
- Locomotive attendantDeep Cut85points
- Locomotive cleanerDeep Cut85points
- Locomotive controllerDeep Cut85points
- Locomotive firemanDeep Cut85points
- Locomotive fitterDeep Cut85points
- Locomotive manDeep Cut85points
- Locomotive turnerDeep Cut85points
- Lodge porterDeep Cut85points
- LoftsmanDeep Cut85points
- Logging climberDeep Cut85points
- Logging equipment operatorDeep Cut85points
- Logistics officerDeep Cut85points
- Logistics specialistDeep Cut85points
- Logwood grinderDeep Cut85points
- Long-range reconnaissance patrol soldierDeep Cut85points
- LongbowmanDeep Cut85points
- Look-out manDeep Cut85points
- Loom builderDeep Cut85points
- Lotta campidanesa wrestlerDeep Cut85points
- Lounge attendantDeep Cut85points
- Low observable technicianDeep Cut85points
- Lozenge makerDeep Cut85points
- Lucha canaria wrestlerDeep Cut85points
- LugerDeep Cut85points
- LumberjillDeep Cut85points
- LupercusDeep Cut85points
- Macadam mixerDeep Cut85points
- Mace bearerDeep Cut85points
- MacerDeep Cut85points
- Machine adjusterDeep Cut85points
- Machine builderDeep 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.