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
- Flaming s'mores cocktailDeep Cut85points
- Flaming StrawberryDeep Cut85points
- Flaming volcanoDeep Cut85points
- Flaming zombieDeep Cut85points
- Flash cottonDeep Cut85points
- Flash panDeep Cut85points
- Flash paperDeep Cut85points
- Flash pelletDeep Cut85points
- Flash plasticDeep Cut85points
- Flash powderDeep Cut85points
- Flash stringDeep Cut85points
- Flat-wick lampDeep Cut85points
- Floating diyaDeep Cut85points
- Floating wickDeep Cut85points
- Floor furnaceDeep Cut85points
- Flowerpot heaterDeep Cut85points
- Flying beeDeep Cut85points
- Flying fish fuseDeep Cut85points
- Flying saucerDeep Cut85points
- Focul lui SumedruDeep Cut85points
- FogueresDeep Cut85points
- Fougasse (mine)Deep Cut85points
- Foundry furnaceDeep Cut85points
- Fourneau malgacheDeep Cut85points
- Fragrance lampDeep Cut85points
- Franklin stoveDeep Cut85points
- Frayed ropeDeep Cut85points
- Frost candleDeep Cut85points
- FruitwoodDeep Cut85points
- Fuel tabletDeep Cut85points
- Fumo de roloDeep Cut85points
- Funeral candleDeep Cut85points
- FunkenfeuerDeep Cut85points
- G.I. pocket stoveDeep Cut85points
- GalbanumDeep Cut85points
- Galley stoveDeep Cut85points
- GarboDeep Cut85points
- Gas bracketDeep Cut85points
- Gas hot plateDeep Cut85points
- Gas jetDeep Cut85points
- Gas log lighterDeep Cut85points
- Gas mask bongDeep Cut85points
- Gas pendantDeep Cut85points
- Gas pokerDeep Cut85points
- Gas refrigeratorDeep Cut85points
- Gas soldering ironDeep Cut85points
- Gas steam kettleDeep Cut85points
- Gas steam tableDeep Cut85points
- Gas wall heaterDeep Cut85points
- GasolierDeep 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.