Krillion 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
- Cardamom seedsDeep Cut85points
- Carnation petalsDeep Cut85points
- Carolina ReaperDeep Cut85points
- CarrageenanDeep Cut85points
- Cassia budsDeep Cut85points
- Cecina de LeónDeep Cut85points
- Chabichou du PoitouDeep Cut85points
- ChagaDeep Cut85points
- ChicatanasDeep Cut85points
- Chilhuacle negroDeep Cut85points
- ChiltepinDeep Cut85points
- Chinese truffleDeep Cut85points
- Chive blossomsDeep Cut85points
- ChivesDeep Cut85points
- Chorizo ibérico de bellotaDeep Cut85points
- Cinnamon myrtleDeep Cut85points
- Cinta SeneseDeep Cut85points
- Clothbound cheddarDeep Cut85points
- Cloudberry powderDeep Cut85points
- CochinealDeep Cut85points
- Colatura di aliciDeep Cut85points
- Coloured cocoa butterDeep Cut85points
- Copper River salmonDeep Cut85points
- CordycepsDeep Cut85points
- CornflowerDeep Cut85points
- Crottin de ChavignolDeep Cut85points
- Cubeb pepperDeep Cut85points
- Culatello di ZibelloDeep Cut85points
- Culinary argan oilDeep Cut85points
- Da Hong PaoDeep Cut85points
- Dang shenDeep Cut85points
- DarjeelingDeep Cut85points
- Davidson plum powderDeep Cut85points
- Deer antler mushroomDeep Cut85points
- DendrobiumDeep Cut85points
- Dendrobium orchidDeep Cut85points
- Desert lime powderDeep Cut85points
- Dian HongDeep Cut85points
- Dill pollenDeep Cut85points
- Diver scallopsDeep Cut85points
- Dong Ding oolongDeep Cut85points
- Dong quaiDeep Cut85points
- Donkey milk powderDeep Cut85points
- Dover soleDeep Cut85points
- Dried black trumpetsDeep Cut85points
- Dried chanterellesDeep Cut85points
- Dried chicken of the woodsDeep Cut85points
- Dried conchDeep Cut85points
- Dried hedgehog mushroomsDeep Cut85points
- Dried jasmine flowersDeep 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.