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
- Buoy lampDeep Cut85points
- Burada angithiDeep Cut85points
- BurjikoDeep Cut85points
- Burning bowlDeep Cut85points
- Burning peanut experimentDeep Cut85points
- Burning the BushDeep Cut85points
- Burning the ClavieDeep Cut85points
- BurnoutDeep Cut85points
- Burnt cinnamon stickDeep Cut85points
- Burnt star aniseDeep Cut85points
- Butter candleDeep Cut85points
- Butter lampDeep Cut85points
- Butterfly crackerDeep Cut85points
- Cabin heaterDeep Cut85points
- Café brûlotDeep Cut85points
- Café GloriaDeep Cut85points
- Café royalDeep Cut85points
- Calabash pipeDeep Cut85points
- Calentador de leñaDeep Cut85points
- Campfire SlingDeep Cut85points
- Camphene lampDeep Cut85points
- CamphorDeep Cut85points
- Canadian pipeDeep Cut85points
- Candle bridgeDeep Cut85points
- Candle chandelierDeep Cut85points
- Candle clockDeep Cut85points
- Candle footlightsDeep Cut85points
- Candle sconceDeep Cut85points
- Candle stoveDeep Cut85points
- Candle-poleDeep Cut85points
- CandlelighterDeep Cut85points
- Candlemas candleDeep Cut85points
- Candlemas lanternDeep Cut85points
- CandlenutDeep Cut85points
- Cane burningDeep Cut85points
- CannagarDeep Cut85points
- Cannon crackerDeep Cut85points
- Cannon royalDeep Cut85points
- Capsule cigaretteDeep Cut85points
- Car fireworkDeep Cut85points
- Carbide cannonDeep Cut85points
- Carbide lampDeep Cut85points
- Carnauba candleDeep Cut85points
- CarretillaDeep Cut85points
- Carriage lampDeep Cut85points
- Carved candleDeep Cut85points
- Castillo (firework tower)Deep Cut85points
- Catalytic hand warmerDeep Cut85points
- Catalytic heaterDeep Cut85points
- CatkinsDeep 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.