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
- Biscuit feederDeep Cut85points
- Biscuit machinistDeep Cut85points
- Biscuit makerDeep Cut85points
- Biscuit packerDeep Cut85points
- Biscuit pasterDeep Cut85points
- Biscuit stripperDeep Cut85points
- Biscuit turnerDeep Cut85points
- Bit grinderDeep Cut85points
- Black RodDeep Cut85points
- BlancherDeep Cut85points
- BlandengueDeep Cut85points
- Blast furnace car driverDeep Cut85points
- Blast furnace casterDeep Cut85points
- Blast furnace operatorDeep Cut85points
- Blast furnace watermanDeep Cut85points
- BlasterDeep Cut85points
- Blende cleanerDeep Cut85points
- Blender (margarine)Deep Cut85points
- Blending operatorDeep Cut85points
- Block layerDeep Cut85points
- Blood bank technologistDeep Cut85points
- Blood donor carerDeep Cut85points
- Bloom shearerDeep Cut85points
- Bluecoat (Pontins)Deep Cut85points
- BMX racerDeep Cut85points
- Boat mechanicDeep Cut85points
- BoatswainDeep Cut85points
- Boatswain's mateDeep Cut85points
- BobsledderDeep Cut85points
- Boccia playerDeep Cut85points
- BodybuilderDeep Cut85points
- Boiler technicianDeep Cut85points
- BoilermakerDeep Cut85points
- Boilermaker (Navy)Deep Cut85points
- Bokator practitionerDeep Cut85points
- Bolo palma playerDeep Cut85points
- Bombardier (aircrew)Deep Cut85points
- Bookmaker's assistantDeep Cut85points
- Boom operatorDeep Cut85points
- BostancıDeep Cut85points
- Bradley crewmanDeep Cut85points
- Brain injury medicine physicianDeep Cut85points
- BrakemanDeep Cut85points
- Brand ambassadorDeep Cut85points
- Breton wrestlerDeep Cut85points
- Bridge crewmemberDeep Cut85points
- Broomball playerDeep Cut85points
- BSF jawanDeep Cut85points
- Buddhist nunDeep Cut85points
- Buddhist priestDeep 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.