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
- Rock cannonDeep Cut85points
- Rocket candyDeep Cut85points
- Rocket mass heaterDeep Cut85points
- Rocket stoveDeep Cut85points
- Rognons flambésDeep Cut85points
- Rokok daunDeep Cut85points
- Rokok kawungDeep Cut85points
- Rolled candleDeep Cut85points
- Rolling coneDeep Cut85points
- Rom crematDeep Cut85points
- RompeportonesDeep Cut85points
- Rorate candleDeep Cut85points
- Rose incenseDeep Cut85points
- Rosebay willowherbDeep Cut85points
- Rosemary smudge stickDeep Cut85points
- Rotisserie burnerDeep Cut85points
- Rubens tubeDeep Cut85points
- Rüdesheimer KaffeeDeep Cut85points
- Rum-soaked croutonDeep Cut85points
- Rumford rangeDeep Cut85points
- Rune candleDeep Cut85points
- RushlightDeep Cut85points
- Russian stoveDeep Cut85points
- Rustic candleDeep Cut85points
- RyūseiDeep Cut85points
- S'mores makerDeep Cut85points
- SaattaiDeep Cut85points
- Sacred fireDeep Cut85points
- Safe bottle lampDeep Cut85points
- Safety candleDeep Cut85points
- Safety fuseDeep Cut85points
- SagebrushDeep Cut85points
- Saint Anthony bonfireDeep Cut85points
- SakerDeep Cut85points
- Salamander broilerDeep Cut85points
- Salamander heaterDeep Cut85points
- SalomonDeep Cut85points
- SaluteDeep Cut85points
- Saluting gunDeep Cut85points
- Samaritan lampDeep Cut85points
- SambraniDeep Cut85points
- SamovarDeep Cut85points
- San yan chongDeep Cut85points
- Sanctuary lampDeep Cut85points
- Sanctus candleDeep Cut85points
- Sand candleDeep Cut85points
- SandaracDeep Cut85points
- Santa Maria grillDeep Cut85points
- Satay grillDeep Cut85points
- Saturn missileDeep 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.