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
- LimelightDeep Cut85points
- Line rocketDeep Cut85points
- Link (torch)Deep Cut85points
- Liquid fuel stoveDeep Cut85points
- Little cigarDeep Cut85points
- Liverpool pipeDeep Cut85points
- Lò trấu (rice husk stove)Deep Cut85points
- LobanDeep Cut85points
- Lobster AméricaineDeep Cut85points
- Log cabin fireDeep Cut85points
- Lohri bonfireDeep Cut85points
- Lolo ThunderDeep Cut85points
- Long fireDeep Cut85points
- LonsdaleDeep Cut85points
- Loose incenseDeep Cut85points
- Lourdes candleDeep Cut85points
- Lovat pipeDeep Cut85points
- LPG stoveDeep Cut85points
- LuchinaDeep Cut85points
- Lumberman pipeDeep Cut85points
- Lumen ChristiDeep Cut85points
- Lumiere's TorchDeep Cut85points
- Luminaria (bonfire)Deep Cut85points
- LusterweibchenDeep Cut85points
- Lycopodium powderDeep Cut85points
- Lycopodium torchDeep Cut85points
- M-100Deep Cut85points
- MabuhayDeep Cut85points
- MacArthur pipeDeep Cut85points
- MadeiroDeep Cut85points
- Magic lanternDeep Cut85points
- MajmarDeep Cut85points
- Makko incense trailDeep Cut85points
- MaltızDeep Cut85points
- Mandap fireDeep Cut85points
- MangalDeep Cut85points
- Mango flambéDeep Cut85points
- Mantle lampDeep Cut85points
- Mānuka sawdustDeep Cut85points
- MapachoDeep Cut85points
- Maple evaporatorDeep Cut85points
- Maple woodDeep Cut85points
- Marcel stoveDeep Cut85points
- Marsaut lampDeep Cut85points
- Masala incenseDeep Cut85points
- MascletDeep Cut85points
- Maslenitsa effigyDeep Cut85points
- Masonry heaterDeep Cut85points
- Masonry ovenDeep Cut85points
- Massage candleDeep 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.