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
- Carpenter's mateDeep Cut85points
- Carpentry and masonry specialistDeep Cut85points
- Carriage and wagon examinerDeep Cut85points
- Carriage cleanerDeep Cut85points
- Carriage driver (sport)Deep Cut85points
- Casino cage cashierDeep Cut85points
- CataphractDeep Cut85points
- Catering assistantDeep Cut85points
- Catering officerDeep Cut85points
- Cathedral organistDeep Cut85points
- Cavaleiro tauromáquicoDeep Cut85points
- Cavalry scoutDeep Cut85points
- CavalrymanDeep Cut85points
- CBP agriculture specialistDeep Cut85points
- CBRN specialistDeep Cut85points
- CCC enrolleeDeep Cut85points
- Cent-SuisseDeep Cut85points
- Central control casterDeep Cut85points
- Central Security Forces conscriptDeep Cut85points
- Cephalographic technicianDeep Cut85points
- Ceremonial GuardDeep Cut85points
- Chain crew memberDeep Cut85points
- ChaprasiDeep Cut85points
- CharcutierDeep Cut85points
- CharioteerDeep Cut85points
- CharroDeep Cut85points
- ChasseurDeep Cut85points
- Chasseur (servant)Deep Cut85points
- ChaushDeep Cut85points
- Cheese carrierDeep Cut85points
- Cheese makerDeep Cut85points
- Chef instructorDeep Cut85points
- Chemical operatorDeep Cut85points
- Chemical pathologistDeep Cut85points
- ChengguanDeep Cut85points
- ChessboxerDeep Cut85points
- Chevau-légerDeep Cut85points
- Chidaoba wrestlerDeep Cut85points
- Child abuse pediatricianDeep Cut85points
- Child neurologistDeep Cut85points
- Chilean rodeo riderDeep Cut85points
- Chindon'yaDeep Cut85points
- Chip runnerDeep Cut85points
- Chip shop fryerDeep Cut85points
- ChocolatierDeep Cut85points
- Choi Kwang Do competitorDeep Cut85points
- ChowkidarDeep Cut85points
- ChristkindDeep Cut85points
- Chuckwagon driverDeep Cut85points
- Chun Kuk Do competitorDeep 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.