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
- ZarbDeep Cut85points
- ZisselmannDeep Cut85points
- Zulu pipeDeep Cut85points
- Þjóðhátíð bonfireDeep Cut85points
- Absinthe sugar cubeRare60points
- Advent wreathRare60points
- Alcohol burnerRare60points
- Altar candleRare60points
- B-52 (flaming shot)Rare60points
- Backpacking stoveRare60points
- Baked AlaskaRare60points
- Bananas FosterRare60points
- Baptismal candleRare60points
- BarkRare60points
- BeaconRare60points
- Beeswax candleRare60points
- Birch barkRare60points
- BlowtorchRare60points
- BoilerRare60points
- Bonfire night bonfireRare60points
- BookRare60points
- Bottle rocketRare60points
- BranchesRare60points
- BrazierRare60points
- BriquettesRare60points
- BrushwoodRare60points
- BubblerRare60points
- Burn barrelRare60points
- Burn pileRare60points
- Burn pitRare60points
- BurnerRare60points
- Burning crossRare60points
- Butane stoveRare60points
- Camp stoveRare60points
- CandelabraRare60points
- Candle lanternRare60points
- Candlelight service candleRare60points
- Candlelight vigil candleRare60points
- CandlestickRare60points
- CannonRare60points
- CardboardRare60points
- Cartoon bombRare60points
- Catherine wheelRare60points
- CenserRare60points
- Chafing fuelRare60points
- Cherries jubileeRare60points
- Cherry bombRare60points
- ChimineaRare60points
- Chimney starterRare60points
- Christmas candleRare60points
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.