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
- ChongtongDeep Cut85points
- Chorkor ovenDeep Cut85points
- ChorsaDeep Cut85points
- Chouriço assadoDeep Cut85points
- Christ candleDeep Cut85points
- ChristingleDeep Cut85points
- Christmas Eve bonfireDeep Cut85points
- Christmas pyramidDeep Cut85points
- Christmas tree candlesDeep Cut85points
- Christmas wheat candleDeep Cut85points
- ChulhaDeep Cut85points
- Chuppah candlesDeep Cut85points
- Churchill (cigar)Deep Cut85points
- Churchwarden pipeDeep Cut85points
- ChurrasqueiraDeep Cut85points
- Citronella oil lampDeep Cut85points
- Clanny lampDeep Cut85points
- Clay lampDeep Cut85points
- Clay ovenDeep Cut85points
- Clay pipeDeep Cut85points
- Clay pot heaterDeep Cut85points
- Clay stoveDeep Cut85points
- CleaversDeep Cut85points
- Clematis barkDeep Cut85points
- Clifford lampDeep Cut85points
- Clome ovenDeep Cut85points
- ClothDeep Cut85points
- Coal brooder stoveDeep Cut85points
- Coal potDeep Cut85points
- Cob ovenDeep Cut85points
- Cocktail smokerDeep Cut85points
- Coconut charcoalDeep Cut85points
- Coconut frond torchDeep Cut85points
- Coconut huskDeep Cut85points
- Coconut wax candleDeep Cut85points
- Coffee grogDeep Cut85points
- Coke (fuel)Deep Cut85points
- Coke-in-canDeep Cut85points
- Cold fountainDeep Cut85points
- Cold smoke generatorDeep Cut85points
- Cold sparklerDeep Cut85points
- Colour pencilDeep Cut85points
- Colour rainDeep Cut85points
- Colza lampDeep Cut85points
- CometDeep Cut85points
- Commercial fryerDeep Cut85points
- Communal ovenDeep Cut85points
- Community cookerDeep Cut85points
- Cone candleDeep Cut85points
- Confirmation candleDeep 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.