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
- Trumpet cigarDeep Cut85points
- TsunabiDeep Cut85points
- Tube candleDeep Cut85points
- TukkalDeep Cut85points
- Tulip jointDeep Cut85points
- TumbarranchoDeep Cut85points
- Tuna (firecracker)Deep Cut85points
- Tuna can candleDeep Cut85points
- Turkish cigaretteDeep Cut85points
- Turnip lanternDeep Cut85points
- Twelfth Night firesDeep Cut85points
- Twig stoveDeep Cut85points
- Twinkling starDeep Cut85points
- TykinlaukausDeep Cut85points
- Tyrolean pipeDeep Cut85points
- Ukulele pipeDeep Cut85points
- Unfiltered cigaretteDeep Cut85points
- Up Helly Aa galleyDeep Cut85points
- UunsiDeep Cut85points
- VampirosDeep Cut85points
- Vanishing candleDeep Cut85points
- Vara de luzDeep Cut85points
- Vassa candleDeep Cut85points
- Vegetable oil lampDeep Cut85points
- Venturi pipeDeep Cut85points
- Vertical smokerDeep Cut85points
- Very low nicotine cigaretteDeep Cut85points
- Vesak lanternDeep Cut85points
- Vest pocket pipeDeep Cut85points
- VeuglaireDeep Cut85points
- Vigil fireDeep Cut85points
- Viking funeral shipDeep Cut85points
- Viking ship burningDeep Cut85points
- Vine cuttingsDeep Cut85points
- Virginia cigaretteDeep Cut85points
- Visco fuseDeep Cut85points
- Volcano pipeDeep Cut85points
- Votive lampDeep Cut85points
- Vuurspuwende draakDeep Cut85points
- Wall gunDeep Cut85points
- Wall of fireDeep Cut85points
- Walnut shell candlesDeep Cut85points
- Wang Yeh boatDeep Cut85points
- Wankou chongDeep Cut85points
- Warm Apple Pie shotDeep Cut85points
- WarosokuDeep Cut85points
- Wasp nestDeep Cut85points
- Watch fireDeep Cut85points
- Watchman's lanternDeep Cut85points
- Waterfall bongDeep 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.