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
- SuperstringDeep Cut85points
- SusukiDeep Cut85points
- Sutli bombDeep Cut85points
- Sweat lodge fireDeep Cut85points
- Swedish torchDeep Cut85points
- SweetgrassDeep Cut85points
- Swinging torchDeep Cut85points
- Swiss National Day bonfireDeep Cut85points
- Swivel gunDeep Cut85points
- Table bombDeep Cut85points
- Table burnerDeep Cut85points
- Table torchDeep Cut85points
- Taboon ovenDeep Cut85points
- TadonDeep Cut85points
- Tallow candleDeep Cut85points
- TamponsDeep Cut85points
- TanegashimaDeep Cut85points
- Tank fireworkDeep Cut85points
- Tankard pipeDeep Cut85points
- Tao (Thai charcoal stove)Deep Cut85points
- Taoist temple oil lampDeep Cut85points
- Tar barrelDeep Cut85points
- Tar kettleDeep Cut85points
- Tar kilnDeep Cut85points
- TarasniceDeep Cut85points
- TatakuaDeep Cut85points
- Tazaungdaing fire balloonDeep Cut85points
- Tea bag rocketDeep Cut85points
- Tea cigaretteDeep Cut85points
- Tea light warmerDeep Cut85points
- Tea stoveDeep Cut85points
- Teacup candleDeep Cut85points
- Teclu burnerDeep Cut85points
- Teepee burnerDeep Cut85points
- Teepee fireDeep Cut85points
- Temple candleDeep Cut85points
- Temple furnaceDeep Cut85points
- Temple menorahDeep Cut85points
- Tenebrae candlesDeep Cut85points
- Tennis ball cannonDeep Cut85points
- Tent caterpillar nestDeep Cut85points
- Tent stoveDeep Cut85points
- Test fireDeep Cut85points
- Tezutsu hanabiDeep Cut85points
- Thai stickDeep Cut85points
- ThaomeiDeep Cut85points
- Theemithi fire pitDeep Cut85points
- Theyyam torchDeep Cut85points
- ThiourayeDeep Cut85points
- Thistle downDeep 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.