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
- Hell bank noteDeep Cut85points
- Hello Columbia (firecracker)Deep Cut85points
- Herbal cigaretteDeep Cut85points
- Heroin foilDeep Cut85points
- Highway torchDeep Cut85points
- HirezakeDeep Cut85points
- Hiyondori torchDeep Cut85points
- HiyuseiDeep Cut85points
- Hıdırellez bonfireDeep Cut85points
- Hoàng Cầm stoveDeep Cut85points
- Hob grateDeep Cut85points
- Hogmanay bonfireDeep Cut85points
- Hok-lightDeep Cut85points
- Holika bonfireDeep Cut85points
- Hollow candleDeep Cut85points
- HomaDeep Cut85points
- Honeycomb briquette stoveDeep Cut85points
- Honeysuckle barkDeep Cut85points
- Hop pelletsDeep Cut85points
- Horn lanternDeep Cut85points
- Horsetail shellDeep Cut85points
- Hot fudge sundae shotDeep Cut85points
- Hot-pot burnerDeep Cut85points
- HuatiaDeep Cut85points
- Huevo de codornizDeep Cut85points
- HummerDeep Cut85points
- Hunter's fireDeep Cut85points
- Huo CheDeep Cut85points
- HuolongchushuiDeep Cut85points
- HwachaDeep Cut85points
- HyakuhattōDeep Cut85points
- Hydrogen balloonDeep Cut85points
- Hydrogen torchDeep Cut85points
- Ice candleDeep Cut85points
- Ice lanternDeep Cut85points
- Icon lampDeep Cut85points
- Iemanjá candleDeep Cut85points
- Illuminating torchDeep Cut85points
- ImpephoDeep Cut85points
- Improved cookstoveDeep Cut85points
- Incense charcoalDeep Cut85points
- Incense clockDeep Cut85points
- Incense coilDeep Cut85points
- Incense pasteDeep Cut85points
- Incense pastilleDeep Cut85points
- Incense powderDeep Cut85points
- Indoor fireworksDeep Cut85points
- Inferno shotDeep Cut85points
- InglenookDeep Cut85points
- Injera stoveDeep 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.