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
- Oregon black truffleDeep Cut85points
- Oregon white truffleDeep Cut85points
- Oriental BeautyDeep Cut85points
- OsmanthusDeep Cut85points
- Ossau-IratyDeep Cut85points
- Paddlefish caviarDeep Cut85points
- Paleta ibéricaDeep Cut85points
- Pandan extractDeep Cut85points
- PansyDeep Cut85points
- Parmigiano Reggiano di MontagnaDeep Cut85points
- Pasilla de OaxacaDeep Cut85points
- Pearl meatDeep Cut85points
- Pecorino Toscano stagionatoDeep Cut85points
- Pectinase enzymeDeep Cut85points
- Penja pepperDeep Cut85points
- Peppermint extractDeep Cut85points
- Pequin chiliDeep Cut85points
- Persian blue saltDeep Cut85points
- Petal dustDeep Cut85points
- Phoenix Dan CongDeep Cut85points
- Pike roeDeep Cut85points
- Pili nutsDeep Cut85points
- Pink peppercornsDeep Cut85points
- PorciniDeep Cut85points
- Pu-erhDeep Cut85points
- Pure asafoetida resinDeep Cut85points
- Pure monk fruit extractDeep Cut85points
- Pure stevia extract powderDeep Cut85points
- PuxuriDeep Cut85points
- Quandong powderDeep Cut85points
- Radish microgreensDeep Cut85points
- Raspberry powderDeep Cut85points
- Red crab meatDeep Cut85points
- Red maguey wormsDeep Cut85points
- ReishiDeep Cut85points
- Rogue River BlueDeep Cut85points
- Rosebud powderDeep Cut85points
- Rou GuiDeep Cut85points
- Royal jellyDeep Cut85points
- Rubia GallegaDeep Cut85points
- Ruby Roman grapesDeep Cut85points
- Safflower petalsDeep Cut85points
- Saffron saltDeep Cut85points
- Saga beefDeep Cut85points
- Saint Helena coffeeDeep Cut85points
- Saint-FélicienDeep Cut85points
- Sakura shrimpDeep Cut85points
- Sakura teaDeep Cut85points
- SalepDeep Cut85points
- Sansho pepperDeep 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.