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
- Medical officerDeep Cut85points
- Medical ophthalmologistDeep Cut85points
- Medical scientistDeep Cut85points
- Medical scribeDeep Cut85points
- Medical Service Corps officerDeep Cut85points
- Medical technicianDeep Cut85points
- Medical toxicologistDeep Cut85points
- Mehter musicianDeep Cut85points
- Merchant navy officerDeep Cut85points
- Mesoamerican ballplayerDeep Cut85points
- Mess attendantDeep Cut85points
- Metabolic pediatricianDeep Cut85points
- Metal casting moulderDeep Cut85points
- Metal tipperDeep Cut85points
- Metal tube makerDeep Cut85points
- Metal washerDeep Cut85points
- Metal wheelerDeep Cut85points
- Metal window machinistDeep Cut85points
- Metal workerDeep Cut85points
- Metal yardmanDeep Cut85points
- Metalising machine setterDeep Cut85points
- MetallerDeep Cut85points
- MetalliserDeep Cut85points
- Meter assemblerDeep Cut85points
- Meter case makerDeep Cut85points
- Meter house attendantDeep Cut85points
- Meter installerDeep Cut85points
- Meter proverDeep Cut85points
- Meter testerDeep Cut85points
- Methane borerDeep Cut85points
- MethylatorDeep Cut85points
- METOC analyst forecasterDeep Cut85points
- METOC impact analystDeep Cut85points
- METOC officerDeep Cut85points
- MetrologistDeep Cut85points
- Metrology technicianDeep Cut85points
- Mica checkerDeep Cut85points
- Mica cutterDeep Cut85points
- Mica drillerDeep Cut85points
- Mica gaugerDeep Cut85points
- Mica machinistDeep Cut85points
- Mica moulderDeep Cut85points
- Mica presserDeep Cut85points
- Mica sorterDeep Cut85points
- Mica splitterDeep Cut85points
- Mica workerDeep Cut85points
- Micanite builderDeep Cut85points
- Micanite drillerDeep Cut85points
- Micanite makerDeep Cut85points
- Micanite moulderDeep 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.