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
- BariatricianDeep Cut85points
- Basque pelota playerDeep Cut85points
- Bath attendantDeep Cut85points
- Beach attendantDeep Cut85points
- BeadleDeep Cut85points
- Bear breakerDeep Cut85points
- Beater-upDeep Cut85points
- Bee inspectorDeep Cut85points
- Beef picklerDeep Cut85points
- Beer finerDeep Cut85points
- Beet topperDeep Cut85points
- Beet washer attendantDeep Cut85points
- Behavioral neurologistDeep Cut85points
- BehinderDeep Cut85points
- BekçiDeep Cut85points
- Below ground fitterDeep Cut85points
- Belt cleanerDeep Cut85points
- Belt extenderDeep Cut85points
- Belt fitterDeep Cut85points
- Belt foremanDeep Cut85points
- Belt inspectorDeep Cut85points
- Belt minderDeep Cut85points
- Belt removerDeep Cut85points
- Belt runnerDeep Cut85points
- Belt turnerDeep Cut85points
- BeltmanDeep Cut85points
- Bench handDeep Cut85points
- Bench moulderDeep Cut85points
- Benzol plant operatorDeep Cut85points
- Benzol washerDeep Cut85points
- BersagliereDeep Cut85points
- BiathleteDeep Cut85points
- Bicycle infantrymanDeep Cut85points
- Bicycle polo playerDeep Cut85points
- Billet cutterDeep Cut85points
- Billet grinderDeep Cut85points
- Billet inspectorDeep Cut85points
- Billet markerDeep Cut85points
- Billet operatorDeep Cut85points
- Billet shearerDeep Cut85points
- BilleterDeep Cut85points
- Billingsgate porterDeep Cut85points
- BillmanDeep Cut85points
- Bingo callerDeep Cut85points
- Bingo hall attendantDeep Cut85points
- BiochemistDeep Cut85points
- Bioenvironmental engineerDeep Cut85points
- Biscuit boilerDeep Cut85points
- Biscuit covererDeep Cut85points
- Biscuit cutterDeep 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.