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
- Gel candleDeep Cut85points
- Gel fireplaceDeep Cut85points
- Ger stoveDeep Cut85points
- Ghost King effigyDeep Cut85points
- Ghost shellDeep Cut85points
- Glassblowing torchDeep Cut85points
- GlöggDeep Cut85points
- Glycerin pipeDeep Cut85points
- Goblet of Fire cocktailDeep Cut85points
- Golden rainDeep Cut85points
- GoldenrodDeep Cut85points
- GollandkaDeep Cut85points
- GombangdaeDeep Cut85points
- Goodbye BadingDeep Cut85points
- Goodbye ChismosaDeep Cut85points
- Goodbye De LimaDeep Cut85points
- Goodbye NapolesDeep Cut85points
- Goodbye PhilippinesDeep Cut85points
- Gopher gasserDeep Cut85points
- GorseDeep Cut85points
- Gozan no OkuribiDeep Cut85points
- GPH NuclearDeep Cut85points
- Granulated wax candleDeep Cut85points
- Grave candleDeep Cut85points
- Gravity-fed grillDeep Cut85points
- Grease lampDeep Cut85points
- Greek Easter candleDeep Cut85points
- Greenhouse heaterDeep Cut85points
- Greenhouse smoke coneDeep Cut85points
- Greenhouse smoke generatorDeep Cut85points
- GrenadoDeep Cut85points
- Ground ratDeep Cut85points
- Grude stoveDeep Cut85points
- GuggulDeep Cut85points
- Gundel pancakeDeep Cut85points
- Gyro broilerDeep Cut85points
- Haman effigyDeep Cut85points
- Hammer pipeDeep Cut85points
- Hand cannonDeep Cut85points
- Hand of GloryDeep Cut85points
- Hand-dipped candleDeep Cut85points
- Hand-rolled candleDeep Cut85points
- HanwarimonoDeep Cut85points
- Harupat sticksDeep Cut85points
- HashiramatsuDeep Cut85points
- Hautapu fireDeep Cut85points
- Hawaiian stone lampDeep Cut85points
- Hawan cupDeep Cut85points
- Hefner lampDeep Cut85points
- HelicopterDeep 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.