Krillion Recorded answers
758 recorded answers
How to approach it
Work the alphabet rather than your memory. Begin by free-associating every edible or drinkable word you know under those opening letters, and write the list down so duplicates become obvious. Then switch to structure: run through the culinary aisles one at a time — dairy, grains and breads, drinks fermented and distilled, preserves, sweets, condiments — and force five candidates from each. When that well runs dry, change language rather than topic: think of cuisines whose vocabulary English borrows wholesale, and dredge up terms you have seen on menus or import labels but never used. Finally, check form: a candidate must stand as one word, no space or hyphen, though accents are fine. Submit the rarest entry you can defend, not the first one you thought of.
Get a hint
Start from sound rather than spelling: a large share of these words reach English as transliterations, so one initial sound may be written with a single letter pair across many unrelated scripts.
A little more
Sort your candidates by shop aisle instead of by cuisine — dairy, grain, drinks, preserves, sweets, condiments — and notice which aisles borrow most heavily from regional dialects and old trade routes.
One step further
Then push past the short, obvious options toward longer terms of three or four syllables, often with doubled consonants, open vowels or an accent on the last syllable, the kind printed on specialist menus and import labels.
Reveal answers 758
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Why these answers count
Only 32 of the 758 recorded answers fell below the 60-point threshold, so almost anything valid scored something; the real contest was rarity. The single 100-point entry, Chhurpi, is a hard dried dairy product from the Himalayas, the sort of term almost nobody produces without having eaten it. Everything else in the published top group of 85-pointers is recognisable but regionally specific: Chaas, the Indian buttermilk; Chakalaka, a South African relish; Chakhokhbili, a Georgian stew; Chacolí, a wine of the Basque country; Chajá, a Uruguayan layered dessert. Each is attestable, each requires familiarity with one particular tradition. The 48 entries at 60 points form the bottom of the top tier and read like the more accessible end of the same spectrum. The lesson: because correctness was nearly universal, points tracked how unlikely your answer was to sit on another player's list, so obscure transliterations beat familiar staples.