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
- Fire paanDeep Cut85points
- Fire panDeep Cut85points
- Fire pani puriDeep Cut85points
- Fire potDeep Cut85points
- Fire rope dartDeep Cut85points
- Fire shipDeep Cut85points
- Fire skirtDeep Cut85points
- Fire spinning cubeDeep Cut85points
- Fire staffDeep Cut85points
- Fire starter gelDeep Cut85points
- Fire swordDeep Cut85points
- Fire tomahawkDeep Cut85points
- Fire triadsDeep Cut85points
- Fire umbrellaDeep Cut85points
- Fire wandDeep Cut85points
- Fire whipDeep Cut85points
- Fire wingsDeep Cut85points
- Fire yo-yoDeep Cut85points
- Fire-breathing peacockDeep Cut85points
- Fire-safe cigaretteDeep Cut85points
- FireboxDeep Cut85points
- Fireplace insertDeep Cut85points
- FirestickDeep Cut85points
- Firework cakeDeep Cut85points
- First Communion candleDeep Cut85points
- Fish flambéDeep Cut85points
- Fishtail burnerDeep Cut85points
- Five StarDeep Cut85points
- Flambé burnerDeep Cut85points
- FlambeauDeep Cut85points
- Flame of LoveDeep Cut85points
- Flamed orange peelDeep Cut85points
- Flaming BlueDeep Cut85points
- Flaming chaliceDeep Cut85points
- Flaming chocolate sphereDeep Cut85points
- Flaming coffeeDeep Cut85points
- Flaming DragonDeep Cut85points
- Flaming FerrariDeep Cut85points
- Flaming fruit shellDeep Cut85points
- Flaming Green FairyDeep Cut85points
- Flaming JesusDeep Cut85points
- Flaming LamborghiniDeep Cut85points
- Flaming lemon drop shotDeep Cut85points
- Flaming LeprechaunDeep Cut85points
- Flaming limbo poleDeep Cut85points
- Flaming Lime DropDeep Cut85points
- Flaming martiniDeep Cut85points
- Flaming MoeDeep Cut85points
- Flaming punchDeep Cut85points
- Flaming RastaDeep 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.