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
- MujintōDeep Cut85points
- MullDeep Cut85points
- Multi-break shellDeep Cut85points
- Multi-wick candleDeep Cut85points
- Mushrooms flambéDeep Cut85points
- Musical birthday candleDeep Cut85points
- Mysorean rocketDeep Cut85points
- Nakhwa noriDeep Cut85points
- Naphtha lampDeep Cut85points
- Narakasura effigyDeep Cut85points
- Native cigaretteDeep Cut85points
- Nautilus pipeDeep Cut85points
- Nebuta Nagashi floatDeep Cut85points
- Nectar collectorDeep Cut85points
- Neem leavesDeep Cut85points
- NeronimDeep Cut85points
- Newroz fireDeep Cut85points
- Newspaper logDeep Cut85points
- Nightlight candleDeep Cut85points
- NilavilakkuDeep Cut85points
- NitraatDeep Cut85points
- Nose warmer pipeDeep Cut85points
- Novelty candleDeep Cut85points
- Novena candleDeep Cut85points
- OcakbaşıDeep Cut85points
- Odor-eliminating candleDeep Cut85points
- Offertory candleDeep Cut85points
- OgatanDeep Cut85points
- OgnjišteDeep Cut85points
- Oil candleDeep Cut85points
- Oil locomotive headlampDeep Cut85points
- Oil navigation lightDeep Cut85points
- Oil signal lampDeep Cut85points
- Oil stoveDeep Cut85points
- Oil torchDeep Cut85points
- Oil wall lampDeep Cut85points
- Oil-fired switch heaterDeep Cut85points
- Oil-lamp clockDeep Cut85points
- Olai vediDeep Cut85points
- Olive woodDeep Cut85points
- Omelette au rhumDeep Cut85points
- OndolDeep Cut85points
- Oom Paul pipeDeep Cut85points
- Opium lampDeep Cut85points
- Opium pipeDeep Cut85points
- OpoponaxDeep Cut85points
- Orange peel candleDeep Cut85points
- Orchard removal burnDeep Cut85points
- Ordination candleDeep Cut85points
- Oribe-dōrōDeep 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.