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
- Army quartermaster officerDeep Cut85points
- Army radar repairerDeep Cut85points
- Army radio repairerDeep Cut85points
- Army radiology specialistDeep Cut85points
- Army railway crewmemberDeep Cut85points
- Army respiratory specialistDeep Cut85points
- Army shower and laundry specialistDeep Cut85points
- Army special band memberDeep Cut85points
- Army Stryker mechanicDeep Cut85points
- Army supply specialistDeep Cut85points
- Army tank mechanicDeep Cut85points
- Army TMDE specialistDeep Cut85points
- Army track vehicle repairerDeep Cut85points
- Army transportation management coordinatorDeep Cut85points
- Army utilities equipment repairerDeep Cut85points
- Army veterinary food inspection specialistDeep Cut85points
- Army visual information specialistDeep Cut85points
- Army water treatment specialistDeep Cut85points
- Army watercraft engineerDeep Cut85points
- Army watercraft operatorDeep Cut85points
- Arnis practitionerDeep Cut85points
- ArtificerDeep Cut85points
- Artillery electronics technicianDeep Cut85points
- Artillery systems technicianDeep Cut85points
- Arval BrotherDeep Cut85points
- ASHA workerDeep Cut85points
- AshigaruDeep Cut85points
- AskariDeep Cut85points
- Asphalt layerDeep Cut85points
- Assam Rifles riflemanDeep Cut85points
- Assault amphibious vehicle crewmanDeep Cut85points
- Assault amphibious vehicle repairerDeep Cut85points
- Assault breacher vehicle mechanicDeep Cut85points
- AssaultmanDeep Cut85points
- Assistant midwifeDeep Cut85points
- Assistant practitionerDeep Cut85points
- Associate practitionerDeep Cut85points
- ATS memberDeep Cut85points
- ATV racerDeep Cut85points
- Audiovestibular physicianDeep Cut85points
- Australian Federation Guard memberDeep Cut85points
- Australian rules footballerDeep Cut85points
- Auto electricianDeep Cut85points
- Auto glass technicianDeep Cut85points
- Auto parts counterpersonDeep Cut85points
- Auto Race riderDeep Cut85points
- Auto rickshaw driverDeep Cut85points
- Automat attendantDeep Cut85points
- Autopsy PathologistDeep Cut85points
- Autopsy technicianDeep 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.