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
- Procession torchDeep Cut85points
- Processional candleDeep Cut85points
- Processional lanternDeep Cut85points
- Propane insect foggerDeep Cut85points
- PūdeleDeep Cut85points
- PugonDeep Cut85points
- Punched tin lanternDeep Cut85points
- Punk woodDeep Cut85points
- Purdy lampDeep Cut85points
- Pyramid candleDeep Cut85points
- Pyramid cigarDeep Cut85points
- Pyramid fireDeep Cut85points
- Pyrolytic graphite pipeDeep Cut85points
- Q'oaDeep Cut85points
- Quail flambéDeep Cut85points
- Quarter stickDeep Cut85points
- QuebrachoDeep Cut85points
- QueimadaDeep Cut85points
- Queso flameadoDeep Cut85points
- Quick matchDeep Cut85points
- Quinceañera candleDeep Cut85points
- Quinceañera candlesDeep Cut85points
- QulliqDeep Cut85points
- QunfangsuiDeep Cut85points
- RabinetDeep Cut85points
- Raclette burnerDeep Cut85points
- Railroad lanternDeep Cut85points
- Railway pot lampDeep Cut85points
- Rainbow flameDeep Cut85points
- RakovalkeaDeep Cut85points
- Raku kilnDeep Cut85points
- RangmashalDeep Cut85points
- Rapeseed wax candleDeep Cut85points
- RatusDeep Cut85points
- RäuchermännchenDeep Cut85points
- RaudoDeep Cut85points
- Reflector fireDeep Cut85points
- Reverse flow smokerDeep Cut85points
- Reversible candleDeep Cut85points
- Revolving lanternDeep Cut85points
- Rhodesian pipeDeep Cut85points
- RibauldequinDeep Cut85points
- Ribbon burnerDeep Cut85points
- Rice huskDeep Cut85points
- RihaDeep Cut85points
- Ring shellDeep Cut85points
- Ritual candleDeep Cut85points
- Robata grillDeep Cut85points
- RobustoDeep Cut85points
- RocasDeep 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.