Recorded answers
419 recorded answers
How to approach it
Work backwards from price mechanics instead of trying to recall a famous luxury item. Anything selling in grams, sachets or single pieces can clear the threshold once you scale it to a kilogram, so scan the whole shop in your head: spice racks, cheese counters, butchers, fishmongers, tea merchants, health-food shelves and bakery supplies all hide candidates. For each category, ask what limits supply — a brief season, protected origin rules, a slow-growing animal, hand harvesting, long ageing or a plant that only thrives in one climate. Then check the arithmetic: a product at twenty dollars per hundred grams already qualifies. Rarity of the pick matters too, because a widely known luxury is likely to be named by thousands of players, while a homely-sounding regional speciality may be recorded by very few.
Get a hint
Start from the aisle rather than the recipe: consider categories sold in tiny quantities, such as precious spices, rare fungi, long-aged cheeses, cured meats, seafood delicacies or exotic fruit.
A little more
Weight is the great equaliser here — a jar that looks affordable at twenty grams becomes eye-watering once you scale that price up to a full kilogram.
One step further
Narrow the field by asking what creates the shortage: a harvest window of a few weeks, a protected origin, an animal that yields only a few grams, or a process measured in years.
Reveal answers 419
- HasmaOne in a Krillion100points
- 7 Pot pepperDeep Cut85points
- A2 bilona gheeDeep Cut85points
- Acai powderDeep Cut85points
- Agar agarDeep Cut85points
- Agaricus blazeiDeep Cut85points
- Aged Xinhui chenpiDeep Cut85points
- Almas caviarDeep Cut85points
- Almond extractDeep Cut85points
- AmaebiDeep Cut85points
- Amylase enzymeDeep Cut85points
- AngulasDeep Cut85points
- Aniseed myrtleDeep Cut85points
- Anzer honeyDeep Cut85points
- Bamboo saltDeep Cut85points
- BaozhongDeep Cut85points
- Begonia flowersDeep Cut85points
- BerberechosDeep Cut85points
- Beurre de baratteDeep Cut85points
- Bi Luo ChunDeep Cut85points
- Bianchetto truffleDeep Cut85points
- Bijin-hime strawberryDeep Cut85points
- BiltongDeep Cut85points
- Birch syrupDeep Cut85points
- Bison tenderloinDeep Cut85points
- Bitto StoricoDeep Cut85points
- Black garlicDeep Cut85points
- Blooming teaDeep Cut85points
- Blue crystal prawnsDeep Cut85points
- Blue spirulinaDeep Cut85points
- Borage flowersDeep Cut85points
- BottargaDeep Cut85points
- Bourbon Pointu coffeeDeep Cut85points
- Bowfin caviarDeep Cut85points
- BresaolaDeep Cut85points
- Broccoli microgreensDeep Cut85points
- Bronte pistachioDeep Cut85points
- BündnerfleischDeep Cut85points
- Burgundy truffleDeep Cut85points
- Butterfly pea flowerDeep Cut85points
- Caciocavallo PodolicoDeep Cut85points
- Calafate powderDeep Cut85points
- CalendulaDeep Cut85points
- Camel milk chocolateDeep Cut85points
- Camel milk powderDeep Cut85points
- Camu camu powderDeep Cut85points
- Candied violetsDeep Cut85points
- Candy cap mushroomDeep Cut85points
- Cantabrian anchoviesDeep Cut85points
- Carabinero prawnsDeep Cut85points
Why these answers count
Scoring rewards precision and surprise in equal measure. The single hundred-point answer in the reveal was Hasma, a pick so obscure that almost nobody else would have thought of it, and that uniqueness is exactly what the top band pays for. The vast 85-point block sits one step below: Almas caviar, Bianchetto truffle, Anzer honey, Bitto Storico, Bourbon Pointu coffee, Cecina de León and dozens of similar entries are all legitimately over the line, but each is famous enough within food circles that many players land on it, so the shared credit is slightly diluted. At sixty points you find the obvious crowd-pleasers — the luxury items a casual player reaches for first, where the answer is correct yet the queue behind it is long. The lesson for anyone playing: a humble-sounding regional product with a protected name or a brutal harvest window will usually outscore a globally advertised delicacy, because correctness gets you on the board and rarity moves you up it.