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
- KinnikinnickDeep Cut85points
- KiseruDeep Cut85points
- Kissing boughDeep Cut85points
- Kitchen God paperDeep Cut85points
- Kitchener rangeDeep Cut85points
- Klembak menyanDeep Cut85points
- KnallfroschDeep Cut85points
- Koenig's manometric flame apparatusDeep Cut85points
- Koliada fireDeep Cut85points
- KorsiDeep Cut85points
- Kostroma effigyDeep Cut85points
- KrathongDeep Cut85points
- Krathong saiDeep Cut85points
- Kukui nut torchDeep Cut85points
- Kupala Night bonfireDeep Cut85points
- KuruviDeep Cut85points
- KwitonDeep Cut85points
- KyphiDeep Cut85points
- LabdanumDeep Cut85points
- Lag BaOmer bonfireDeep Cut85points
- LakawoodDeep Cut85points
- Lakshmi bombDeep Cut85points
- Lamp burnerDeep Cut85points
- Lamp mantleDeep Cut85points
- Lamplighter's poleDeep Cut85points
- Lampwork lampDeep Cut85points
- LanceroDeep Cut85points
- LanceworkDeep Cut85points
- Lanka bombDeep Cut85points
- LantakaDeep Cut85points
- Lantern of the deadDeep Cut85points
- LanthornDeep Cut85points
- Lapin flambéDeep Cut85points
- Lard lampDeep Cut85points
- Las Posadas candleDeep Cut85points
- Latrine wasteDeep Cut85points
- Latrobe stoveDeep Cut85points
- Laundry copperDeep Cut85points
- Laundry stoveDeep Cut85points
- Lavender smudge stickDeep Cut85points
- Lead potDeep Cut85points
- Lean-to fireDeep Cut85points
- Leather cannonDeep Cut85points
- LelaDeep Cut85points
- Letter to SantaDeep Cut85points
- Levee burningDeep Cut85points
- Life candleDeep Cut85points
- LilanjeDeep Cut85points
- Lime barkDeep Cut85points
- Lime kilnDeep 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.