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
- Pelita buluhDeep Cut85points
- Pelota tatáDeep Cut85points
- Pencil crackerDeep Cut85points
- Peony shellDeep Cut85points
- PerfectoDeep Cut85points
- PetardDeep Cut85points
- Petit coronaDeep Cut85points
- Pew candleDeep Cut85points
- Phoebe lampDeep Cut85points
- Phoenix cocktailDeep Cut85points
- PhotoflashDeep Cut85points
- Piano burningDeep Cut85points
- Piccolo firecrackerDeep Cut85points
- Pierrier à boîteDeep Cut85points
- Pig roasterDeep Cut85points
- Pigeon lampDeep Cut85points
- Pillbox fireworkDeep Cut85points
- Pimento woodDeep Cut85points
- Pine resinDeep Cut85points
- Pine torchDeep Cut85points
- Pineapple flambéDeep Cut85points
- Piñon woodDeep Cut85points
- Pistil shellDeep Cut85points
- Pit firingDeep Cut85points
- PiulaDeep Cut85points
- Pla-plaDeep Cut85points
- Platform fireDeep Cut85points
- Plum woodDeep Cut85points
- PokamonoDeep Cut85points
- Poker pipeDeep Cut85points
- PolycandelonDeep Cut85points
- Pool heaterDeep Cut85points
- Pop-pop boatDeep Cut85points
- PopilDeep Cut85points
- Poplar fluffDeep Cut85points
- PoppopDeep Cut85points
- Porcelain pipeDeep Cut85points
- PortfireDeep Cut85points
- PortpieceDeep Cut85points
- Pot-de-ferDeep Cut85points
- Potpourri burnerDeep Cut85points
- PrangiDeep Cut85points
- Prayer flagsDeep Cut85points
- PresidenteDeep Cut85points
- Pressed candleDeep Cut85points
- Pricket candleDeep Cut85points
- Priming cupDeep Cut85points
- Priming pasteDeep Cut85points
- Primus stoveDeep Cut85points
- Prince pipeDeep 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.