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
- BadnjakDeep Cut85points
- Baling twineDeep Cut85points
- Ball candleDeep Cut85points
- Baltic drying barn stoveDeep Cut85points
- Bamboo bongDeep Cut85points
- Bamboo cannonDeep Cut85points
- Bambooless incenseDeep Cut85points
- Banana flambéDeep Cut85points
- Banger ropeDeep Cut85points
- Banjo burnerDeep Cut85points
- Barrel barbecueDeep Cut85points
- BarrilitoDeep Cut85points
- Basilisk (cannon)Deep Cut85points
- BawangDeep Cut85points
- Bay leafDeep Cut85points
- Bayberry candleDeep Cut85points
- BdelliumDeep Cut85points
- Bean holeDeep Cut85points
- Bedikat chametz candleDeep Cut85points
- Bee smokerDeep Cut85points
- Beehive fireworksDeep Cut85points
- Beehive ovenDeep Cut85points
- BelicosoDeep Cut85points
- Bengal fireDeep Cut85points
- Benghazi burnerDeep Cut85points
- Bent billiard pipeDeep Cut85points
- BenzoinDeep Cut85points
- BeraqDeep Cut85points
- Berth lampDeep Cut85points
- Betty lampDeep Cut85points
- BhattiDeep Cut85points
- Bhogi bonfireDeep Cut85points
- Bicycle oil lampDeep Cut85points
- BidiDeep Cut85points
- Bihu mejiDeep Cut85points
- Bijli crackerDeep Cut85points
- Billiard pipeDeep Cut85points
- Bin Laden firecrackerDeep Cut85points
- BinchotanDeep Cut85points
- Biochar kilnDeep Cut85points
- Biogas stoveDeep Cut85points
- Biomass briquettesDeep Cut85points
- Birch bark torchDeep Cut85points
- Birch polyporeDeep Cut85points
- Bird downDeep Cut85points
- Birthday wreathDeep Cut85points
- Biur chametzDeep Cut85points
- Black matchDeep Cut85points
- Black sageDeep Cut85points
- Blast lampDeep 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.