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
- GrouseDeep Cut85points
- Gum arabicDeep Cut85points
- GyokuroDeep Cut85points
- Hairy crabDeep Cut85points
- HamachiDeep Cut85points
- Hida beefDeep Cut85points
- HojichaDeep Cut85points
- Hon kuzuDeep Cut85points
- Hop shootsDeep Cut85points
- HoshigakiDeep Cut85points
- Huangshan MaofengDeep Cut85points
- Huoshan HuangyaDeep Cut85points
- Iota carrageenanDeep Cut85points
- Jacu bird coffeeDeep Cut85points
- Jade oolongDeep Cut85points
- Japanese black teaDeep Cut85points
- Japanese matsutakeDeep Cut85points
- Jarrah honeyDeep Cut85points
- Jasmine pearlsDeep Cut85points
- Jasmine teaDeep Cut85points
- Jin Jun MeiDeep Cut85points
- Jumbo lump crab meatDeep Cut85points
- Junshan YinzhenDeep Cut85points
- KabusechaDeep Cut85points
- Kagoshima wagyuDeep Cut85points
- Kakadu plum powderDeep Cut85points
- Kalix LöjromDeep Cut85points
- KamairichaDeep Cut85points
- KampachiDeep Cut85points
- Kampot pepperDeep Cut85points
- Kappa carrageenanDeep Cut85points
- KatsuobushiDeep Cut85points
- KazunokoDeep Cut85points
- KeemunDeep Cut85points
- KeganiDeep Cut85points
- KinmedaiDeep Cut85points
- Kippered salmonDeep Cut85points
- Koji sporesDeep Cut85points
- Konjac gumDeep Cut85points
- KonowataDeep Cut85points
- KuchikoDeep Cut85points
- KukichaDeep Cut85points
- Lakadong turmericDeep Cut85points
- Lambda carrageenanDeep Cut85points
- LangresDeep Cut85points
- Lapsang souchongDeep Cut85points
- Leaf gelatinDeep Cut85points
- Lemon aspen powderDeep Cut85points
- Lemon extractDeep Cut85points
- Lemon myrtleDeep 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.