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
- DhoopDeep Cut85points
- DhuniDeep Cut85points
- DhunoDeep Cut85points
- Diadema cigarDeep Cut85points
- Diesel cookstoveDeep Cut85points
- Dikirion and trikirionDeep Cut85points
- Diplomat pipeDeep Cut85points
- Dipped incenseDeep Cut85points
- Disposable barbecueDeep Cut85points
- Ditch burningDeep Cut85points
- Divorce candleDeep Cut85points
- DokhaDeep Cut85points
- Dondo-yakiDeep Cut85points
- Donkey boilerDeep Cut85points
- DoritosDeep Cut85points
- Double bangerDeep Cut85points
- Double CoronaDeep Cut85points
- Dove panDeep Cut85points
- DracarysDeep Cut85points
- Draft cardDeep Cut85points
- Dragon and phoenix candlesDeep Cut85points
- Dragon incense stickDeep Cut85points
- Dragon's blood incenseDeep Cut85points
- Drake (cannon)Deep Cut85points
- Drip candleDeep Cut85points
- Drip torchDeep Cut85points
- Drum smokerDeep Cut85points
- Dublin pipeDeep Cut85points
- Duck flambéDeep Cut85points
- Duke pipeDeep Cut85points
- DukhanDeep Cut85points
- Dung cakesDeep Cut85points
- Duplex lampDeep Cut85points
- E-rōsokuDeep Cut85points
- Earth ovenDeep Cut85points
- Easter fireDeep Cut85points
- Easter Vigil candleDeep Cut85points
- Easter Vigil new fireDeep Cut85points
- Egata hanabiDeep Cut85points
- Egg pipeDeep Cut85points
- Eggshell lampDeep Cut85points
- Egyptian egg ovenDeep Cut85points
- Eid al-Salib bonfireDeep Cut85points
- El DiabloDeep Cut85points
- ElemiDeep Cut85points
- Emu bush leavesDeep Cut85points
- EruptorDeep Cut85points
- Esbit stoveDeep Cut85points
- Escape fireDeep Cut85points
- EsfandDeep 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.