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
- Orthodox taperDeep Cut85points
- Orthodox wedding candlesDeep Cut85points
- Osterräder (Easter wheels)Deep Cut85points
- Oud chipsDeep Cut85points
- Outdoor candleDeep Cut85points
- Outdoor propane burnerDeep Cut85points
- Outdoor wood boilerDeep Cut85points
- Overdip candleDeep Cut85points
- ŌzutsuDeep Cut85points
- Paavai vilakkuDeep Cut85points
- Paella burnerDeep Cut85points
- Palm frondsDeep Cut85points
- Palm torchDeep Cut85points
- Palm wax candleDeep Cut85points
- Palmitine candleDeep Cut85points
- PanatelaDeep Cut85points
- Panchmukhi diyaDeep Cut85points
- Panel pipeDeep Cut85points
- Panqueques flambeadosDeep Cut85points
- PapelateDeep Cut85points
- Paper effigyDeep Cut85points
- PaperbarkDeep Cut85points
- Papier d'ArménieDeep Cut85points
- Papier-mâché jack-o'-lanternDeep Cut85points
- PapirosaDeep Cut85points
- Parachute fireworkDeep Cut85points
- Paraffin candleDeep Cut85points
- Paraffin lanternDeep Cut85points
- ParejoDeep Cut85points
- ParolDeep Cut85points
- Paschal candleDeep Cut85points
- Paschal trikirionDeep Cut85points
- PassbookDeep Cut85points
- Passion candleDeep Cut85points
- Passion Gospels candleDeep Cut85points
- Pasta cookerDeep Cut85points
- Pastille burnerDeep Cut85points
- Patas de mulaDeep Cut85points
- PatitosDeep Cut85points
- Peach flambéDeep Cut85points
- Peach woodDeep Cut85points
- Peanut shell fireworkDeep Cut85points
- Pear flambéDeep Cut85points
- Pear pipeDeep Cut85points
- PeatDeep Cut85points
- Pecan woodDeep Cut85points
- PedreroDeep Cut85points
- Peg lampDeep Cut85points
- Peking duck ovenDeep Cut85points
- PelitaDeep 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.