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
- Thookku vilakkuDeep Cut85points
- Thousand ball thunder cannonDeep Cut85points
- Three-stone fireDeep Cut85points
- Thunder crash bombDeep Cut85points
- ThunderflashDeep Cut85points
- Thuốc lào pipeDeep Cut85points
- Thyme smudge stickDeep Cut85points
- Tibetan incenseDeep Cut85points
- Tilt skilletDeep Cut85points
- Timkat bonfireDeep Cut85points
- Timkat candleDeep Cut85points
- Tinder fungusDeep Cut85points
- TireDeep Cut85points
- Tirrill burnerDeep Cut85points
- TLUD stoveDeep Cut85points
- Toilet paper heaterDeep Cut85points
- Tolu balsamDeep Cut85points
- Tom ThumbDeep Cut85points
- Tomahawk pipeDeep Cut85points
- Tomato pipeDeep Cut85points
- Tommy cookerDeep Cut85points
- TōmyōDeep Cut85points
- TonnoireDeep Cut85points
- ToradarDeep Cut85points
- Torch to roseDeep Cut85points
- Torched rosemaryDeep Cut85points
- Torched sageDeep Cut85points
- Torched thymeDeep Cut85points
- ToritoDeep Cut85points
- TōrōDeep Cut85points
- Toro emboladoDeep Cut85points
- Torpedo cigarDeep Cut85points
- ToscanoDeep Cut85points
- Touch holeDeep Cut85points
- TourbillionDeep Cut85points
- Toy steam engineDeep Cut85points
- Traffic light fireworkDeep Cut85points
- Training burnDeep Cut85points
- Transfer torchDeep Cut85points
- Travel candleDeep Cut85points
- Trench candleDeep Cut85points
- Trench fireDeep Cut85points
- Trench smokerDeep Cut85points
- TrianguloDeep Cut85points
- Tric TracDeep Cut85points
- Trichinopoly cigarDeep Cut85points
- Trioxane fuel barDeep Cut85points
- Trndez bonfireDeep Cut85points
- Tro de BacDeep Cut85points
- TronaeraDeep 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.