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
- Smokehouse fireDeep Cut85points
- Smokeless fuelDeep Cut85points
- Smoking ceremonyDeep Cut85points
- Smoking lampDeep Cut85points
- Smudge fireDeep Cut85points
- Smudge potDeep Cut85points
- SnapdragonDeep Cut85points
- Snow lanternDeep Cut85points
- Soapstone pipeDeep Cut85points
- Solar oil lampDeep Cut85points
- SoldaditosDeep Cut85points
- SonaekōDeep Cut85points
- Sostre de focDeep Cut85points
- Soyer stoveDeep Cut85points
- Spanish coffeeDeep Cut85points
- Spanish mossDeep Cut85points
- Sparkle basketsDeep Cut85points
- Spell candleDeep Cut85points
- Spermaceti candleDeep Cut85points
- Spiral candleDeep Cut85points
- SquibDeep Cut85points
- St. Lucia crownDeep Cut85points
- St. Martin's bonfireDeep Cut85points
- St. Martin's lanternDeep Cut85points
- Stake lanternDeep Cut85points
- Star fireDeep Cut85points
- Star mineDeep Cut85points
- Star wheelDeep Cut85points
- Steak au poivreDeep Cut85points
- Steam locomotiveDeep Cut85points
- Steam tractorDeep Cut85points
- Stearin candleDeep Cut85points
- Stew stoveDeep Cut85points
- Stillingia tallow candleDeep Cut85points
- Stirling engineDeep Cut85points
- Stock tank heaterDeep Cut85points
- Stockpot burnerDeep Cut85points
- Stone lampDeep Cut85points
- Stonehaven fireballDeep Cut85points
- StoraxDeep Cut85points
- Strawberries flambéDeep Cut85points
- Strobe potDeep Cut85points
- StubbleDeep Cut85points
- StumpDeep Cut85points
- SukundaDeep Cut85points
- Sulfur candleDeep Cut85points
- Sumac bobsDeep Cut85points
- Sunset Pousse CaféDeep Cut85points
- Super LoloDeep Cut85points
- Super YolandaDeep 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.