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
- WatusiDeep Cut85points
- Wax garden flareDeep Cut85points
- Wax jackDeep Cut85points
- Wax-dipped cardboardDeep Cut85points
- Waxed paperDeep Cut85points
- Weed abatement burnDeep Cut85points
- Wells lightDeep Cut85points
- Welsbach burnerDeep Cut85points
- Whale oil lampDeep Cut85points
- White dammarDeep Cut85points
- Whoosh bottleDeep Cut85points
- Wian tian candleDeep Cut85points
- Wiccan altar candlesDeep Cut85points
- Wick sealing wax stickDeep Cut85points
- Wigilia candleDeep Cut85points
- Wildfire cocktailDeep Cut85points
- WillowDeep Cut85points
- Window candleDeep Cut85points
- Windrow burningDeep Cut85points
- Wine bottle torchDeep Cut85points
- Wish boatsDeep Cut85points
- Wish paperDeep Cut85points
- Wok burnerDeep Cut85points
- Wood briquetteDeep Cut85points
- Wood cookstoveDeep Cut85points
- Wood furnaceDeep Cut85points
- Wood gas stoveDeep Cut85points
- Wood woolDeep Cut85points
- Wood-fired hot tubDeep Cut85points
- Wood-fired kilnDeep Cut85points
- Wooden splintDeep Cut85points
- Woodstock pipeDeep Cut85points
- Wrapping paperDeep Cut85points
- WusulanDeep Cut85points
- Xun Lei ChongDeep Cut85points
- Ya muanDeep Cut85points
- Yacht lampDeep Cut85points
- Yakiniku grillDeep Cut85points
- Yam deepakDeep Cut85points
- Yamagasa lantern pyramidDeep Cut85points
- YandaiDeep Cut85points
- YaretaDeep Cut85points
- Yarrow smudge stickDeep Cut85points
- Yates lampDeep Cut85points
- Year candleDeep Cut85points
- YeondeungDeep Cut85points
- YeontanDeep Cut85points
- Yerba santaDeep Cut85points
- Yom Tov candlesDeep Cut85points
- Yukon stoveDeep 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.