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
- Congreve rocketDeep Cut85points
- CookstoveDeep Cut85points
- CopalDeep Cut85points
- Corn cobsDeep Cut85points
- Corn huskDeep Cut85points
- Corn roasterDeep Cut85points
- Corn-husk cigaretteDeep Cut85points
- Corona (cigar)Deep Cut85points
- Corona GordaDeep Cut85points
- Corona GrandeDeep Cut85points
- Cotton swabsDeep Cut85points
- CouchDeep Cut85points
- Crackling ballDeep Cut85points
- CraticulaDeep Cut85points
- CrayonDeep Cut85points
- CremaetDeep Cut85points
- Crepas de cajetaDeep Cut85points
- Crêpes MylèneDeep Cut85points
- CressetDeep Cut85points
- Cresset stoneDeep Cut85points
- Crisco candleDeep Cut85points
- Cross jointDeep Cut85points
- Cross-fireDeep Cut85points
- Crucifix candleDeep Cut85points
- Cucaracha shotDeep Cut85points
- CulebraDeep Cut85points
- Cultural burningDeep Cut85points
- CulverinDeep Cut85points
- Cutty pipeDeep Cut85points
- Cylinder shellDeep Cut85points
- Cylinder stoveDeep Cut85points
- Dakota fire holeDeep Cut85points
- Dalia cigarDeep Cut85points
- DaljipDeep Cut85points
- DammarDeep Cut85points
- Dark lanternDeep Cut85points
- Dark tobacco cigaretteDeep Cut85points
- Dart bombDeep Cut85points
- Daytime fireworksDeep Cut85points
- Death From AboveDeep Cut85points
- DeepalakshmiDeep Cut85points
- DeepastambhaDeep Cut85points
- DeepavrikshaDeep Cut85points
- Demi-cannonDeep Cut85points
- Demi-culverinDeep Cut85points
- Demitasse (cigar)Deep Cut85points
- Desert sageDeep Cut85points
- DespachoDeep Cut85points
- Devil Anse pipeDeep Cut85points
- Devil 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.