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
- Buffet attendantDeep Cut85points
- Bulk fuel specialistDeep Cut85points
- Bulk loaderDeep Cut85points
- Bulldog (university constable)Deep Cut85points
- Bulldozer operatorDeep Cut85points
- Bullpen catcherDeep Cut85points
- Bunraku puppeteerDeep Cut85points
- Bus dispatcherDeep Cut85points
- Bus guideDeep Cut85points
- Bus shunterDeep Cut85points
- Bus station agentDeep Cut85points
- Butler café butlerDeep Cut85points
- Butlin's RedcoatDeep Cut85points
- Butter makerDeep Cut85points
- Buzkashi riderDeep Cut85points
- Cable and antenna technicianDeep Cut85points
- Cable car conductorDeep Cut85points
- Cable car gripmanDeep Cut85points
- Cable jointerDeep Cut85points
- Cable layerDeep Cut85points
- Cadet Force OfficerDeep Cut85points
- Cadet Instructor Cadre officerDeep Cut85points
- Cadet nurseDeep Cut85points
- Cake decoratorDeep Cut85points
- Calcio storico playerDeep Cut85points
- Calibrations technician (USMC)Deep Cut85points
- Camel cavalrymanDeep Cut85points
- Camel jockeyDeep Cut85points
- Camera girlDeep Cut85points
- Camogie playerDeep Cut85points
- CampinoDeep Cut85points
- Can-can dancerDeep Cut85points
- Canadian RangerDeep Cut85points
- Canal workerDeep Cut85points
- Canne de combat competitorDeep Cut85points
- Canoe polo playerDeep Cut85points
- CanoeistDeep Cut85points
- Cao Dai priestDeep Cut85points
- CapoeiristaDeep Cut85points
- Car guardDeep Cut85points
- Car painterDeep Cut85points
- CarabineroDeep Cut85points
- CarabinierDeep Cut85points
- Carabinier du PrinceDeep Cut85points
- CarabiniereDeep Cut85points
- Cardiovascular technologistDeep Cut85points
- Career retention specialistDeep Cut85points
- Cargo handlerDeep Cut85points
- Carnival barkerDeep Cut85points
- CaroleanDeep 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.