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
- Machine drillerDeep Cut85points
- Machinery repairmanDeep Cut85points
- Machinery technicianDeep Cut85points
- Machinist's mateDeep Cut85points
- Magav officerDeep Cut85points
- Maid café maidDeep Cut85points
- Mail coach guardDeep Cut85points
- Mail sorterDeep Cut85points
- Maintenance mechanicDeep Cut85points
- MajordomoDeep Cut85points
- Malakhra wrestlerDeep Cut85points
- Mallakhamb gymnastDeep Cut85points
- MamlukDeep Cut85points
- MammographerDeep Cut85points
- Man-at-armsDeep Cut85points
- Mandaean priestDeep Cut85points
- Mandarin (official)Deep Cut85points
- ManglabitesDeep Cut85points
- MARCOS commandoDeep Cut85points
- MarechausseeDeep Cut85points
- Marina attendantDeep Cut85points
- Marine bakerDeep Cut85points
- Marine embassy guardDeep Cut85points
- Marine engineerDeep Cut85points
- Marine inspectorDeep Cut85points
- Marine interdiction agentDeep Cut85points
- Marine RaiderDeep Cut85points
- Marine science technicianDeep Cut85points
- Marine security forces guardDeep Cut85points
- Maritime enforcement specialistDeep Cut85points
- Marksmanship instructorDeep Cut85points
- Marshal's Guard of the SejmDeep Cut85points
- Mass communication specialistDeep Cut85points
- Master-at-armsDeep Cut85points
- Matatu crewDeep Cut85points
- Material Management OfficerDeep Cut85points
- Maternal-fetal medicine specialistDeep Cut85points
- Maternity support workerDeep Cut85points
- Maxillofacial prosthetistDeep Cut85points
- Mayor's attendantDeep Cut85points
- Mayor's officerDeep Cut85points
- Meat graderDeep Cut85points
- Meat inspectorDeep Cut85points
- Meat porterDeep Cut85points
- MeatpackerDeep Cut85points
- Medevac pilotDeep Cut85points
- Medical biochemical geneticistDeep Cut85points
- Medical geneticistDeep Cut85points
- Medical imaging assistantDeep Cut85points
- Medical microbiologistDeep 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.