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
- AutotransfusionistDeep Cut85points
- Auxiliary police officerDeep Cut85points
- Aviation antisubmarine warfare operatorDeep Cut85points
- Aviation boatswain's mateDeep Cut85points
- Aviation calibration repair technicianDeep Cut85points
- Aviation communication systems technicianDeep Cut85points
- Aviation electrician's mateDeep Cut85points
- Aviation electronics technicianDeep Cut85points
- Aviation electronicsmanDeep Cut85points
- Aviation intelligence specialistDeep Cut85points
- Aviation logisticianDeep Cut85points
- Aviation machinist's mateDeep Cut85points
- Aviation maintenance administrationmanDeep Cut85points
- Aviation metalsmithDeep Cut85points
- Aviation meteorological equipment technicianDeep Cut85points
- Aviation microminiature repair technicianDeep Cut85points
- Aviation officerDeep Cut85points
- Aviation operations specialistDeep Cut85points
- Aviation ordnancemanDeep Cut85points
- Aviation production controllerDeep Cut85points
- Aviation radar technicianDeep Cut85points
- Aviation radiomanDeep Cut85points
- Aviation storekeeperDeep Cut85points
- Aviation structural mechanicDeep Cut85points
- Aviation supply specialistDeep Cut85points
- Aviation support equipment asset managerDeep Cut85points
- Aviation support equipment technicianDeep Cut85points
- Aviation systems technicianDeep Cut85points
- Avionics electrical technicianDeep Cut85points
- Avionics technicianDeep Cut85points
- Aztec priestDeep Cut85points
- Backhold wrestlerDeep Cut85points
- Baggage service agentDeep Cut85points
- Baiana de acarajéDeep Cut85points
- Ball badminton playerDeep Cut85points
- Balle pelote playerDeep Cut85points
- Ballon au poing playerDeep Cut85points
- Balonpesado playerDeep Cut85points
- Ban'ei jockeyDeep Cut85points
- Band officer (USMC)Deep Cut85points
- BanderilleroDeep Cut85points
- BandmasterDeep Cut85points
- Bandy playerDeep Cut85points
- Bank of England gatekeeperDeep Cut85points
- BannermanDeep Cut85points
- Bantay DagatDeep Cut85points
- Barangay health workerDeep Cut85points
- Barangay tanodDeep Cut85points
- Bare-knuckle boxerDeep Cut85points
- Bariatric surgeonDeep 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.