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
- MasticDeep Cut85points
- MatchlockDeep Cut85points
- MbaulaDeep Cut85points
- Mebuu-buu torchDeep Cut85points
- Meditation candleDeep Cut85points
- Meerschaum pipeDeep Cut85points
- MeierblisDeep Cut85points
- Meker burnerDeep Cut85points
- MengtianxiangDeep Cut85points
- Mercun bolaDeep Cut85points
- Meskel bonfireDeep Cut85points
- Metaldehyde tabletDeep Cut85points
- Methane bubblesDeep Cut85points
- MicroburnerDeep Cut85points
- MidfaDeep Cut85points
- Midsummer bonfireDeep Cut85points
- MidwakhDeep Cut85points
- Milkweed fluffDeep Cut85points
- MineDeep Cut85points
- Mine of serpentsDeep Cut85points
- Miner's candleDeep Cut85points
- Miner's figureDeep Cut85points
- Miner's lampDeep Cut85points
- Miner's oil cap lampDeep Cut85points
- Miner's safety lampDeep Cut85points
- Miner's squibDeep Cut85points
- Mirchi bombDeep Cut85points
- Missile (firework)Deep Cut85points
- Moderator lampDeep Cut85points
- Money bombDeep Cut85points
- Mookata grillDeep Cut85points
- Moon rocksDeep Cut85points
- MoonshineDeep Cut85points
- MoranaDeep Cut85points
- Moravian candleDeep Cut85points
- MorėDeep Cut85points
- Morgan lampDeep Cut85points
- Moroccan lanternDeep Cut85points
- MortarettoDeep Cut85points
- Mortgage papersDeep Cut85points
- Mosque lampDeep Cut85points
- Mosquito stickDeep Cut85points
- MossDeep Cut85points
- Mother RocketDeep Cut85points
- Mould candleDeep Cut85points
- Moulded candleDeep Cut85points
- MoxaDeep Cut85points
- Mu krathaDeep Cut85points
- Mueseler lampDeep Cut85points
- Mugwort smudge stickDeep 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.