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
- Arcade attendantDeep Cut85points
- Arch benderDeep Cut85points
- ArditoDeep Cut85points
- Argentine Mounted GrenadierDeep Cut85points
- Armed Police Force officer (Nepal)Deep Cut85points
- Armored vehicle crewmanDeep Cut85points
- ArmorerDeep Cut85points
- Army Air Corps groundcrewDeep Cut85points
- Army air traffic control equipment repairerDeep Cut85points
- Army allied trades specialistDeep Cut85points
- Army animal care specialistDeep Cut85points
- Army artillery mechanicDeep Cut85points
- Army avionics repairerDeep Cut85points
- Army behavioral health specialistDeep Cut85points
- Army biomedical equipment specialistDeep Cut85points
- Army Bradley mechanicDeep Cut85points
- Army Cadet Force instructorDeep Cut85points
- Army cardiovascular specialistDeep Cut85points
- Army career counselorDeep Cut85points
- Army cargo specialistDeep Cut85points
- Army computer/detection systems repairerDeep Cut85points
- Army construction equipment repairerDeep Cut85points
- Army dental specialistDeep Cut85points
- Army diverDeep Cut85points
- Army Educational and Training Services officerDeep Cut85points
- Army ENT specialistDeep Cut85points
- Army eye specialistDeep Cut85points
- Army finance officerDeep Cut85points
- Army financial management technicianDeep Cut85points
- Army fire control repairerDeep Cut85points
- Army human resources specialistDeep Cut85points
- Army medical laboratory specialistDeep Cut85points
- Army medical logistics specialistDeep Cut85points
- Army Medical Support OfficerDeep Cut85points
- Army missile system repairerDeep Cut85points
- Army nutrition care specialistDeep Cut85points
- Army occupational therapy specialistDeep Cut85points
- Army optical laboratory specialistDeep Cut85points
- Army orthopedic specialistDeep Cut85points
- Army patient administration specialistDeep Cut85points
- Army petroleum laboratory specialistDeep Cut85points
- Army petroleum supply specialistDeep Cut85points
- Army pharmacy specialistDeep Cut85points
- Army physical therapy specialistDeep Cut85points
- Army PioneerDeep Cut85points
- Army plumberDeep Cut85points
- Army power generation equipment repairerDeep Cut85points
- Army practical nurseDeep Cut85points
- Army preventive medicine specialistDeep Cut85points
- Army quartermaster and chemical equipment repairerDeep 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.