Krillion prompt · November 11, 2026
Name something that has a needle
Krillion accepted 1,936 answers for this prompt in Dive #119. They’re all below, starting at the trench floor with the gem and rising to the Plankton everyone thinks of first.
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Notes on this prompt
- With 1,936 accepted answers, this prompt is about 2.5 times wider than a typical Krillion prompt (about 761).
- 1,741 answers (90%) are Deep Cuts and 166 are Rare, while 4 sit at Plankton.
Quick picks
The shortest Rare or deeper answers, easy to type before the timer runs out.
Car +60 Fir +60 Boat +60
Also accepted elsewhere
The same answer counted for a different prompt in the archive.
Every accepted answer
One in a Krillion
The gem picked for each prompt. Trench floor.
- Coravin
Its hollow needle pours wine while the cork stays in.
Deep Cut
Real obscurity. This is where the list gets long.
- 3D bioprinter
- A/C manifold gauge set
- A1C test
- Aari embroidery
- Abscess / cyst aspiration
- Achilles piercing
- Aemilia Ars
- African brush-tailed porcupine
- Air core gauge
- Air pressure wine opener
- Air-fuel ratio gauge
- Airspeed indicator
- Alberta white spruce
- Alcock's Spruce
- Alençon lace
- Aleppo pine
- Algerian Fir
- Algometer
- Allergy blood test
- Allicoche hedgehog cactus
- Amami Pine
- Amazonian long-tailed porcupine
- Amigurumi
- Ammeter
- Amniocentesis
- Amnioreduction
- Ampallang piercing
- Amur hedgehog
- Andean porcupine
- Andes organ pipe
- Anemometer
- Anesthesia machine
- Angel bites piercing
- Angel fangs piercing
- Angle of attack indicator
- Anglo-Japanese yew
- Anhydrous ammonia applicator
- Ankle block
- Antarctic sea urchin
- Antenna analyzer
- Anthrax shot
- Anti-eyebrow piercing
- Anti-nausea injection
- Anti-tragus piercing
- Antibiotic injection
- Antivenom
- Apache hedgehog cactus
- Apache pine
- Apadravya piercing
- Apheresis machine
- Applause meter
- Applecactus
- Appliqué
- Arbacia lixula
- Arborescent prickly pear
- Areola tattoo
- Argentan lace
- Argentella
- Arizona hedgehog cactus
- Arizona pencil cholla
- Arizona pine
- Arizona rainbow cactus
- Armenian needle lace
- Arterial blood gas
- Arterial line
- Arthrocentesis
- Arthrogram
- Artichoke cactus
- Ashley piercing
- Asian limestone yew
- Asian spruce
- Asiatic brush-tailed porcupine
- Asparagus fern
- Assam catkin yew
- Assisi embroidery
- Astrophytum
- Atlantic purple sea urchin
- Atlas cedar
- Atomic force microscope
- Auricular acupuncture
- Austin bar piercing
- Austrian pine
- Autoclave
- Automatic direction finder
- Autosampler
- Axillary block
- Azimuth compass
- Azores juniper
- Baby scale
- Back dimple piercing
- Bag closer
- Bahia porcupine
- Bailey's hedgehog cactus
- Baishan fir
- Baja California cochemiea
- Balance scale
- Bald cypress
- Ball cactus
- Balochi needlework
- Balsam fir
- Banded sea urchin
- Bar tack machine
- Barbados Gooseberry
- Barbary fig
- Barbed wire cactus
- Barbotage
- Bare-bellied hedgehog
- Bargello
- Baseplate compass
- Battenberg lace
- Battery tester
- Baturite porcupine
- Bayahibe rose
- BCG shot
- Bead knitting
- Bead spinner
- Beading
- Beam compass
- Bearing distance indicator
- Beavertail cactus
- Beehive cactus
- Bell-flower prickly pear
- Benadryl shot
- Berlandier's hedgehog cactus
- Berlin wool work
- Bhutan white pine
- Bicolored-spined porcupine
- Bier block
- Big Bend foxtail cactus
- Big Bend prickly pear
- Big needle cactus
- Big Pine Key prickly pear
- Bigcone Douglas-fir
- Biopsy gun
- Bird flu shot
- Bishop pine
- Bishop's hat
- Black dwarf porcupine
- Black lace cactus
- Black spruce
- Black-spined prickly pear
- Black-tailed hairy dwarf porcupine
- Blackwork
- Blaine fishhook cactus
- Bleed valve
- Blimp
- Blind prickly pear
- Blind stitch machine
- Blood bag
- Blood culture
- Blood doping
- Blood gas syringe
- Blood type test
- Blood-red prickly pear
- Bloodletting
- Blue barrel cactus
- Blue Diamond cholla
- Blue myrtle cactus
- Blue spruce
- Blue torch cactus
- Bohus Stickning
- Boiler
- Boke's button cactus
- Bolivian torch cactus
- Bone biopsy
- Bonker's hedgehog cactus
- Bonsai
- Book sewing machine
- Bookbinding
- Boost gauge
- Border pinyon
- Border prickly pear
- Boro
- Bosnian pine
- Bourdon gauge
- Bow compass
- Boxing glove cactus
- Boyce Thompson hedgehog cactus
- Brachytherapy
- Brachytherapy applicator
- Brady's pincushion cactus
- Brain biopsy
- Brain cactus
- Brake pressure gauge
- Branched pencil cholla
- Brandt's hedgehog
- Brazilian embroidery
- Brazilian porcupine
- Brazilian prickly pear
- Breast biopsy
- Brewer spruce
- Bridge piercing
- Brine injector
- Brioche knitting
- Bristle-spined porcupine
- Bristlecone fir
- Bristlecone hemlock
- Bristlecone pine
- Brittle prickly pear
- Broad-leaved plum yew
- Broderie anglaise
- Broderie perse
- Brown hairy dwarf porcupine
- Brownspine hedgehog cactus
- Brownspine prickly pear
- Brownspined prickly pear
- Brucellosis shot
- Brush-tailed porcupine
- Buckhorn cholla
- Bulgarian fir
- Bulking injection
- Bullsuckers
- Bulrush Canyon prickly pear
- Bunched cory cactus
- Bunka shishu
- Bunny ears cactus
- Bunsen burner
- Burano lace
- Burrowing urchin
- Bus
- Butt injections
- Button cactus
- Button sewing machine
- Buttonhole machine
- C-reactive protein test
- Cabin pressure gauge
- Cable knitting
- Cactus urchin
- Cake tester
- California barrel cactus
- California cholla
- Canaan fir
- Canada yew
- Canary Islands juniper
- Canary Islands pine
- Cancer vaccine
- Candelabra cactus
- Candle cholla
- Candlestick scale
- Candlewicking
- Candy thermometer
- Canine bites piercing
- Cape porcupine
- Cape sea urchin
- Capsule pressure gauge
- Car compass
- Carburetor
- Carburetor temperature gauge
- Cardon
- Caribbean applecactus
- Caribbean pine
- Carolina hemlock
- Carpet foxtail cactus
- Carrickmacross lace
- Cassette deck
- Casuarina
- Caterpillar cactus
- Cathaya
- Catkin yew
- Cattle scale
- Caudal block
- CED player
- Cedar of Lebanon
- Celiac plexus block
- Central line
- Cephalocereus
- Cerclage
- Chain stitch machine
- Chain-fruit cholla
- Chamba rumal
- Changzhou needlework embroidery
- Chaoshan embroidery
- Chaparral prickly pear
- Chassepot
- Chebka
- Cheek piercing
- Chelation therapy
- Cheng's fir
- Chenille prickly pear
- Chest decompression
- Chiapas pine
- Chicken scratch embroidery
- Chihuahua pine
- Chihuahua prickly pear
- Chihuahua spruce
- Chihuahua white pine
- Chihuahuan beehive
- Chihuahuan fishhook cactus
- Chikan embroidery
- Chikungunya shot
- Chilghoza pine
- Chin cactus
- China fir
- China yew
- Chinese Douglas-fir
- Chinese juniper
- Chinese larch
- Chinese patchwork
- Chinese plum yew
- Chinese prickly juniper
- Chinese red pine
- Chinese swamp cypress
- Chinese torreya
- Chinese white pine
- Chiotilla
- Chir pine
- Chisos Mountain hedgehog cactus
- Chisos Mountain prickly pear
- Cholla
- Chorionic villus sampling
- Christina piercing
- Cigar draw tool
- Cilician fir
- Circular knitting
- Circular knitting machine
- Clamp meter
- Clare embroidery
- Claret cup cactus
- Cleistocactus
- Clitoral hood piercing
- Clitoris piercing
- Club cholla
- Coagulation test
- Coahuila fir
- Coandumirim
- Coast barrel cactus
- Coast grand fir
- Coastal cholla
- Coastal prickly pear
- Cochise pincushion cactus
- Cockspur prickly pear
- Coil tattoo machine
- Colcha embroidery
- Collagenase injection
- Collarbone piercing
- Collector urchin
- Colorado buckhorn cholla
- Colorado hookless cactus
- Colorado pinyon
- Colorimeter
- Column foxtail cactus
- Combined knitting
- Comedone extractor
- Common ball cactus
- Common fishhook cactus
- Common juniper
- Common prickly pear
- Compass watch
- Complete blood count
- Complete garment knitting
- Compost thermometer
- Compound gauge
- Compression tester
- Conch piercing
- Conductivity meter
- Coneflower moonlight cactus
- Continental knitting
- Contrast injection
- Cook pine
- Cooper's pine
- Coral Cactus
- Cord blood collection
- Cordocentesis
- Corkbark Fir
- Corkseed Pincushion Cactus
- Corncob Cactus
- Corryocactus
- Corset piercing
- Corsetry
- Cory-Cactus Hedgehog
- Cosmetic acupuncture
- Costa Rica Nightblooming Cactus
- Costume making
- Cotton Ball Cactus
- Cottontop cactus
- Coulter pine
- Counted-thread embroidery
- Counterclockwise Nipple Cactus
- Course deviation indicator
- Coverstitch machine
- Cow's tongue cactus
- Cowichan knitting
- Crane scale
- Crash cart
- Crested porcupine
- Crewel embroidery
- Cricothyrotomy
- Crochet braids
- Crochet machine
- Crown Cactus
- Crowned sea urchin
- Cryoablation
- Cuban Pine
- Culdocentesis
- Cushion foxtail cactus
- Cutwork
- Cyber bites piercing
- Cylinder head temperature gauge
- Cypress
- Cyprus cedar
- Da Vinci surgical robot
- Dabieshan pine
- Dagger cactus
- Dagger cholla
- Dahlia Hedgehog Cactus
- Dahlia piercing
- Dahurian larch
- Daith piercing
- Dalat White Pine
- Daurian hedgehog
- Dawn redwood
- De Laubenfels' araucaria
- Decibel meter
- Declinometer
- Deep shaft piercing
- Deering's tree cactus
- Delavay's Fir
- Dengue shot
- Dental anesthesia
- Deodar cedar
- Depot injection
- Depth gauge
- Derma stamp
- Dermal piercing
- Desert hedgehog
- Desert Valley Fishhook Cactus
- Deshilado de Aguascalientes
- Despain's pincushion cactus
- Devil cholla
- Devil's cholla
- Devil's Tongue Cactus
- Devilthorn
- Dial bore gauge
- Dial caliper
- Dial indicator
- Dialysis machine
- Diaphragm pressure gauge
- Digital block
- Dip circle
- Discogram
- Dissecting kit
- Distortion meter
- Dividers
- Diving compass
- Diving regulator
- Doctor's bag
- Doll hair rerooting tool
- Doll making
- Dollarjoint pricklypear
- Dolphin bites piercing
- Domino cactus
- Double knitting
- Douglas Pine
- Dragon fruit cactus
- Dragon Spruce
- Drawn thread work
- Dressmaking
- Dreyse needle gun
- Drooping Prickly Pear Cactus
- Drypoint
- Duncan's foxtail cactus
- Dupixent injection
- Durango Fir
- Durango Pine
- Durometer
- Dwarf Chin Cactus
- Dwarf Stone Pine
- Dwarf turk's cap cactus
- Dwell meter
- Dydoe piercing
- Dynamometer
- E-meter
- Eagle's claw cactus
- Earth inductor compass
- Earth resistance tester
- Easter Lily Cactus
- Eastern hemlock
- Eastern long-beaked echidna
- Eastern prickly pear
- Eastern white pine
- Ebola shot
- Echinocactus
- Econometer
- Edible sea urchin
- Edwards' pricklypear
- EEG machine
- Egg piercer
- Egg retrieval
- Egg-cone pine
- EGT gauge
- El Paso pricklypear
- Electroacupuncture
- Electrodynamometer
- Electrometer
- Electroscope
- Electrospinning
- Electrospray
- Electrostatic voltmeter
- Elephant's tooth
- Elephantear pricklypear
Rare
Genuinely uncommon. A strong pick on any prompt.
- Air compressor
- Airbrush
- Airplane
- Allergy shots
- Allergy test
- Altimeter
- Anesthesia
- Auto-injector
- B12 shot
- Ball pump
- Barometer
- Barrel cactus
- Bathroom scale
- Belly button piercing
- Bike pump
- Biopsy
- Birth control implant
- Birth control shot
- Blood collection set
- Blood donation
- Blood glucose testing kit
- Blood pressure cuff
- Blood transfusion
- Boat
- Bone marrow biopsy
- Botox
- Cannula
- Car
- Cartilage piercing
- Cedar
- Chemotherapy
- Chickenpox shot
- Cholesterol test
- Cockpit
- Cone snail
- Conifer
- Continuous glucose monitor
- Cortisone shot
- COVID vaccine
- Crochet
- Cross-stitch
- Darning
- Dashboard
- Dental syringe
- Derma roller
- Dialysis
- Dot-matrix printer
- Douglas fir
- Drawing compass
- Dry needling
- DTaP vaccine
- Ear piercing
- Echidna
- EKG machine
- Electrolysis
- Embroidery
- Embroidery kit
- Embroidery machine
- Epidural
- EpiPen
- Estrogen injection
- Euthanasia
- Evergreen
- Eyebrow piercing
- Filler
- Finger prick test
- Fir
- Fire extinguisher
- First aid kit
- Fuel gauge
- Fuel injector
- Gauge
- Geiger counter
- Hair weave
- Hepatitis A shot
- Hepatitis B shot
- HPV shot
- Industrial sewing machine
- Insulin injection
- Insulin pen
- Insulin pump
- Insulin syringe
- Intravenous injection
- IV
- IVF
- Jukebox
- Juniper
- Keurig coffee maker
- Kidney biopsy
- Kitchen scale
- Knitting machine
- Lancing device
- Lethal injection
- Lip piercing
- Liver biopsy
- Local anesthesia
- Malaria shot
- Measles shot
- Meat injector
- Meat tenderizer
- Meat thermometer
- Meningitis shot
- Microblading
- Microneedling
- Mpox shot
- Needle case
- Needle felting
- Needlepoint
- Needler (Halo)
- Needlework
- Nipple piercing
- Nose piercing
- Oil pressure gauge
- Oxygen tank
- Ozempic injection
- Patchwork
- Permanent makeup
- Pet vaccination
- Pincushion
- Plasma donation
- Pneumonia shot
- Polio shot
- Polygraph
- Pressure cooker
- Pressure gauge
- Prickly pear
- Produce scale
- Propane tank
- Quilting
- Rabies shot
- Radio
- Redwood
- RSV shot
- Rubella shot
- Saguaro
- Sea urchin
- Seismograph
- Septum piercing
- Serger
- Sharps container
- Shingles shot
- Smallpox vaccine
- Spinal anesthesia
- Spinal tap
- Spruce
- Stick and poke
- Stitches
- Suture kit
- Tachometer
- Taxidermy
- TB test
- Tdap vaccine
- Temperature gauge
- Testosterone injection
- Thermometer
- Thermostat
- Tire inflator
- Tire pressure gauge
- Tongue piercing
- Tranquilizer dart
- Turntable
- Typhoid shot
- Victrola
- Vitamin shot
- Yellow fever shot
- Zepbound injection
Schooler
Solid, but you’re swimming with the crowd.
- Acupuncture
- Blood test
- Cactus
- Christmas tree
- Crochet kit
- Flu shot
- Hedgehog
- Knitting
- Knitting kit
- Piercing
- Pine
- Porcupine
- Record player
- Scale
- Sewing box
- Sewing kit
- Shot
- Speedometer
- Stinging nettle
- Tattoo
- Tattoo machine
- Tetanus shot
- Vaccine
Too Clever
The “obscure” pick that isn’t actually that obscure.
- Haystack
Plankton
The first thing everyone thinks of.
- Compass
- Sewing
- Sewing machine
- Syringe
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