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
- Saturn shellDeep Cut85points
- Saturnalia candleDeep Cut85points
- Saucisson (fuse)Deep Cut85points
- Sauna stoveDeep Cut85points
- SawaDeep Cut85points
- Saxon wheelDeep Cut85points
- Scallops flambéDeep Cut85points
- SchwenkerDeep Cut85points
- SchwibbogenDeep Cut85points
- Scorpion bowlDeep Cut85points
- Sear burnerDeep Cut85points
- SebsiDeep Cut85points
- Seed fluffDeep Cut85points
- Senko hanabiDeep Cut85points
- SenrinDeep Cut85points
- SerpentDeep Cut85points
- Seven-color candleDeep Cut85points
- Seven-knob candleDeep Cut85points
- Sewer gas lampDeep Cut85points
- ShaalaDeep Cut85points
- ShamashDeep Cut85points
- Shaokao grillDeep Cut85points
- Sheep dungDeep Cut85points
- Shelled cornDeep Cut85points
- ShermDeep Cut85points
- Ship lanternDeep Cut85points
- Shoe polishDeep Cut85points
- Shop towelsDeep Cut85points
- Shrimp flambéDeep Cut85points
- Shrine candleDeep Cut85points
- ShuiyandaiDeep Cut85points
- Shuttle (firework)Deep Cut85points
- Side burnerDeep Cut85points
- Siege mineDeep Cut85points
- Signal bombDeep Cut85points
- SigriDeep Cut85points
- Sigup kiraiDeep Cut85points
- SingijeonDeep Cut85points
- Singing flameDeep Cut85points
- Single-shot tubeDeep Cut85points
- Siphon coffee burnerDeep Cut85points
- Sirni Zagovezni bonfireDeep Cut85points
- Sitter pipeDeep Cut85points
- SkottelbraaiDeep Cut85points
- Slash-and-burnDeep Cut85points
- Slava candleDeep Cut85points
- Slipper lampDeep Cut85points
- Slow matchDeep Cut85points
- Smoke pelletDeep Cut85points
- Smoke tubeDeep 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.