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
- Blasting capDeep Cut85points
- BlencongDeep Cut85points
- BloomeryDeep Cut85points
- Blow my skullDeep Cut85points
- Blowfish pipeDeep Cut85points
- Blue BlazerDeep Cut85points
- Blue lightDeep Cut85points
- Blue sageDeep Cut85points
- Body torchDeep Cut85points
- Bog dealDeep Cut85points
- Bois chandelleDeep Cut85points
- Bok faiDeep Cut85points
- Bolas de fuegoDeep Cut85points
- BombardDeep Cut85points
- Bombe agricoleDeep Cut85points
- BombetteDeep Cut85points
- Bon-dōrōDeep Cut85points
- BonboriDeep Cut85points
- Bottle kilnDeep Cut85points
- Bottle lampDeep Cut85points
- Bouillotte lampDeep Cut85points
- BrackenDeep Cut85points
- Branding potDeep Cut85points
- BrandonsDeep Cut85points
- Brandy pipeDeep Cut85points
- Brandy warmerDeep Cut85points
- Brasero de mesaDeep Cut85points
- Brazing torchDeep Cut85points
- Bread oven fireDeep Cut85points
- Briar pipeDeep Cut85points
- Brick clampDeep Cut85points
- Brick kilnDeep Cut85points
- Brigid's candleDeep Cut85points
- BrissagoDeep Cut85points
- BroilerDeep Cut85points
- BrujitasDeep Cut85points
- Bucket barbecueDeep Cut85points
- Bucket candleDeep Cut85points
- Buddhist offering candleDeep Cut85points
- Buddy burnerDeep Cut85points
- Bude-LightDeep Cut85points
- Bugum Chugu torchDeep Cut85points
- BukhariDeep Cut85points
- Bulkhead oil lampDeep Cut85points
- Bull Moose pipeDeep Cut85points
- Bullcap pipeDeep Cut85points
- Bulldog pipeDeep Cut85points
- Bullet bombDeep Cut85points
- Bullet smokerDeep Cut85points
- BungerDeep 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.