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
- Truffle soy sauceDeep Cut85points
- Turkey tail mushroomDeep Cut85points
- Ube extractDeep Cut85points
- ValençayDeep Cut85points
- Veal tenderloinDeep Cut85points
- VentrescaDeep Cut85points
- Voatsiperifery pepperDeep Cut85points
- Wasanbon sugarDeep Cut85points
- WattleseedDeep Cut85points
- White maguey wormsDeep Cut85points
- White PeonyDeep Cut85points
- White strawberryDeep Cut85points
- White teaDeep Cut85points
- Whitefish caviarDeep Cut85points
- XO sauceDeep Cut85points
- Yellow teaDeep Cut85points
- Yemeni coffeeDeep Cut85points
- Yonezawa beefDeep Cut85points
- Yuzu koshoDeep Cut85points
- Yuzu peelDeep Cut85points
- ZamburiñasDeep Cut85points
- AbaloneRare60points
- American ginsengRare60points
- Bird's nestRare60points
- Black Ivory coffeeRare60points
- Dry-aged steakRare60points
- Dungeness crab meatRare60points
- Edible glitterRare60points
- Edible silver leafRare60points
- Fresh ginseng rootRare60points
- Gooseneck barnaclesRare60points
- HanwooRare60points
- Hawaiian Kona coffeeRare60points
- Iberico porkRare60points
- Jamaica Blue Mountain coffeeRare60points
- King salmonRare60points
- Kopi luwakRare60points
- Korean red ginsengRare60points
- LangoustineRare60points
- Manuka honeyRare60points
- MatchaRare60points
- MatsutakeRare60points
- MorelsRare60points
- Pine nutsRare60points
- PuleRare60points
- Salmon roeRare60points
- Sea cucumberRare60points
- Stone crab clawsRare60points
- TobikoRare60points
- Truffle butterRare60points
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.