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
- Inner tubeDeep Cut85points
- InqaweDeep Cut85points
- Internment bonfireDeep Cut85points
- IroriDeep Cut85points
- Jack-in-the-boxDeep Cut85points
- JacklightDeep Cut85points
- Jellyfish (firework shell)Deep Cut85points
- Jerk panDeep Cut85points
- Jesus lightDeep Cut85points
- Jeweler's torchDeep Cut85points
- Joss paperDeep Cut85points
- Judas's beltDeep Cut85points
- Judenstern (Shabbat oil lamp)Deep Cut85points
- JulleuchterDeep Cut85points
- JuniperDeep Cut85points
- Juniper incenseDeep Cut85points
- Jute stickDeep Cut85points
- Jute twineDeep Cut85points
- Jyoti KalashDeep Cut85points
- KabasiDeep Cut85points
- KachelofenDeep Cut85points
- KalenderlysDeep Cut85points
- KalivilakkuDeep Cut85points
- Kamakshi lampDeep Cut85points
- Kamba vilakkuDeep Cut85points
- KamuroDeep Cut85points
- KandeelDeep Cut85points
- Kandil lampDeep Cut85points
- Kang bed-stoveDeep Cut85points
- Kantō lantern poleDeep Cut85points
- KatziDeep Cut85points
- Kauri gumDeep Cut85points
- Kaxxa InfernaliDeep Cut85points
- Kelly KettleDeep Cut85points
- Kenya Ceramic JikoDeep Cut85points
- Kerosene brooderDeep Cut85points
- Kerosene incubatorDeep Cut85points
- Kerosene pressure lanternDeep Cut85points
- Kerosene refrigeratorDeep Cut85points
- Kerosene wick stoveDeep Cut85points
- Kestane fişeğiDeep Cut85points
- Keyhole fireDeep Cut85points
- Khom faiDeep Cut85points
- Khom kwaenDeep Cut85points
- KiaweDeep Cut85points
- KiefDeep Cut85points
- KiinanpommiDeep Cut85points
- King Alfred's cakesDeep Cut85points
- King Kong firecrackerDeep Cut85points
- King-size cigaretteDeep 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.