Krillion Recorded answers
1,672 recorded answers
How to approach it
Play the question as a breadth exercise rather than a wisdom test. Give yourself a fixed grid of contexts, then exhaust each one before moving on: the home, religious and folk ceremony, fuel-burning equipment, fireworks and explosives, smoking gear, workshop and outdoor tools, food and drink served flaming, and pure novelty. Inside each context, keep descending from the generic to the particular, because the reveal is granular and rewards precision. When an obvious answer comes to mind, ask what a specialist in that world would call the same object, and write that down instead. Do not stop at ten or twenty entries; the scoring band is wide, so volume combined with specificity is what separates a respectable score from a winning one.
Get a hint
Anything a person deliberately sets alight by hand is fair game, so begin with the everyday ignition rituals that happen in kitchens, on celebration tables and at the far end of a garden.
A little more
From there, push into the sub-genres that fill the reveal: devotional flames, aromatics that smoulder without a flame, fuel-burning appliances, fuses and explosives, workbench torches and novelty gags.
One step further
The list is deep because it is granular: a plain generic object sits in the low band, while the same idea narrowed by region, era, trade or ritual detail climbs into the top band.
Reveal answers 1,672
- CandlefishOne in a Krillion100points
- 'Ndocce (Agnone torches)Deep Cut85points
- A-frame fireDeep Cut85points
- Aarti lampDeep Cut85points
- Abus gunDeep Cut85points
- Acetylene headlampDeep Cut85points
- Acorn pipeDeep Cut85points
- AfarganyuDeep Cut85points
- AfrinaganDeep Cut85points
- Agnihotra fireDeep Cut85points
- AgnikaryamDeep Cut85points
- Air bombDeep Cut85points
- Air burstDeep Cut85points
- Airplane (firework)Deep Cut85points
- Akash deepDeep Cut85points
- Akhand jyotDeep Cut85points
- Alcohol stoveDeep Cut85points
- Aloo bombDeep Cut85points
- Altoids tin stoveDeep Cut85points
- Amber incenseDeep Cut85points
- AmittuDeep Cut85points
- Ammonium dichromate volcanoDeep Cut85points
- Ancestor altar candleDeep Cut85points
- Anchor lanternDeep Cut85points
- AndonDeep Cut85points
- Angel chimesDeep Cut85points
- AngloDeep Cut85points
- Annam vilakkuDeep Cut85points
- Año ViejoDeep Cut85points
- AnthraciteDeep Cut85points
- Anti-hail rocketDeep Cut85points
- Anvil firingDeep Cut85points
- Apple flambéDeep Cut85points
- Apple pipeDeep Cut85points
- Aqua shellDeep Cut85points
- Argand lampDeep Cut85points
- ArgizaiolaDeep Cut85points
- AshcanDeep Cut85points
- Ashen fagotDeep Cut85points
- Asthma cigaretteDeep Cut85points
- Astral lampDeep Cut85points
- AthanorDeep Cut85points
- Atom bomb (cracker)Deep Cut85points
- AuthepsaDeep Cut85points
- Author pipeDeep Cut85points
- Baba au rhum flambéDeep Cut85points
- Baby rocketDeep Cut85points
- BackdraftDeep Cut85points
- BackfireDeep Cut85points
- Backflow incense coneDeep Cut85points
Why these answers count
Scoring here is a breadth lottery with a specificity multiplier. The bulk of the reveal, 1403 entries, sits at 85 points, and reading that band shows why: almost every entry is a narrow, named variant rather than a generic object. Candlefish holds the single 100-point slot as the most obscure pick on the board, while the 85 band is a dense catalogue of regional, historical and technical detail, from an Acetylene headlamp and an Afarganyu to an Apple flambé, an Argand lamp and an Andon. The 227 answers at 60 points are the price of playing it safe: correct, recognisable, and shared with a large slice of the field. Rarity, not plausibility, moves a pick from 60 to 85, and only the entries describing something almost nobody else would think of reach the top. Plausible-but-obvious earns a floor, never a ceiling.