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
- Cattail fluffDeep Cut85points
- Cavalier pipeDeep Cut85points
- CBD cigaretteDeep Cut85points
- CebollitasDeep Cut85points
- Cedar barkDeep Cut85points
- Cedar smudgeDeep Cut85points
- Cedar spillDeep Cut85points
- Central-draft lampDeep Cut85points
- CeppoDeep Cut85points
- CeptrotDeep Cut85points
- CesendelloDeep Cut85points
- CetbangDeep Cut85points
- ChaferyDeep Cut85points
- ChagaDeep Cut85points
- Chaharshanbe Suri bonfireDeep Cut85points
- Chalice (pipe)Deep Cut85points
- ChamberstickDeep Cut85points
- Char clothDeep Cut85points
- CharbroilerDeep Cut85points
- Charcoal hand warmerDeep Cut85points
- Charcoal ironDeep Cut85points
- Charcoal kilnDeep Cut85points
- Charcoal kotatsuDeep Cut85points
- Charcoal ovenDeep Cut85points
- Charcoal-filter cigaretteDeep Cut85points
- Chari dance potDeep Cut85points
- Charred woodDeep Cut85points
- ChaserDeep Cut85points
- CheesemelterDeep Cut85points
- CheongsachorongDeep Cut85points
- CherootDeep Cut85points
- Cherry woodDeep Cut85points
- Cherrywood pipeDeep Cut85points
- ChiakokonobaDeep Cut85points
- ChiboDeep Cut85points
- ChiboukDeep Cut85points
- Chicken flambéDeep Cut85points
- Chicken laying eggs (firework)Deep Cut85points
- ChienbäseDeep Cut85points
- ChillumDeep Cut85points
- Chime candleDeep Cut85points
- Chimney fire logDeep Cut85points
- Chimney hot potDeep Cut85points
- Chimney pipeDeep Cut85points
- Chinese red candleDeep Cut85points
- Chinese wax candleDeep Cut85points
- Chip heaterDeep Cut85points
- ChiraghDeep Cut85points
- Chit putDeep Cut85points
- Chocolate bombDeep 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.