Recorded answers
153 recorded answers
How to approach it
Work backwards from the pictograph catalogue rather than from your own meals. Picture the panel as a rough sequence of sections — produce and ingredients first, then prepared dishes, then sweets and baked goods, then drinks and the vessels holding them — and list every symbol that shows something ingestible. Ignore anything whose role is cooking, serving or storage; those feel adjacent but fall outside the wording. Rank what remains by how ordinary it feels, because the plainest, most universally recognised entries are what a crowd reaches for first and will sit low on the scoring curve. Build a second tier of less obvious but still plainly edible symbols and lead with those. Test each candidate against the literal question as well, since a few symbols are creatures or plain liquids before they are dishes.
Get a hint
Start from the sheer size of the official picture set: it runs to several thousand symbols, and a modest slice of them depict something ingestible, so the pool is wider than most people assume at first.
A little more
Sort your candidates by where they sit in that catalogue — whole ingredients, prepared plates, sweet baked goods, hot and cold beverages, and containers shown with food inside all occupy different stretches of it.
One step further
Narrow to symbols whose whole point is being consumed rather than prepared or served, and keep in mind that a few pictographs of living creatures and of plain liquids are treated as edible by many players.
Reveal answers 153
- OdenOne in a Krillion100points
- Baby bottleDeep Cut85points
- BentoDeep Cut85points
- BisonDeep Cut85points
- Bowl with spoonDeep Cut85points
- Canned foodDeep Cut85points
- Clinking beer mugsDeep Cut85points
- Clinking glassesDeep Cut85points
- DangoDeep Cut85points
- FalafelDeep Cut85points
- Fish cakeDeep Cut85points
- FondueDeep Cut85points
- FrogDeep Cut85points
- FuguDeep Cut85points
- GooseDeep Cut85points
- MateDeep Cut85points
- Moon cakeDeep Cut85points
- Potable waterDeep Cut85points
- Pouring liquidDeep Cut85points
- RabbitDeep Cut85points
- Rice ballDeep Cut85points
- Rice crackerDeep Cut85points
- RoosterDeep Cut85points
- Root vegetableDeep Cut85points
- SakeDeep Cut85points
- Shallow pan of foodDeep Cut85points
- Shaved iceDeep Cut85points
- Sheaf of riceDeep Cut85points
- SnailDeep Cut85points
- SquidDeep Cut85points
- Stuffed flatbreadDeep Cut85points
- TakeoutDeep Cut85points
- TamaleDeep Cut85points
- TeapotDeep Cut85points
- Tropical drinkDeep Cut85points
- Tropical fishDeep Cut85points
- Water dropletDeep Cut85points
- Wild boarDeep Cut85points
- AvocadoRare60points
- BaconRare60points
- BagelRare60points
- BaguetteRare60points
- BeansRare60points
- Bell pepperRare60points
- Brown mushroomRare60points
- Bubble teaRare60points
- ButterRare60points
- ChestnutRare60points
- CocktailRare60points
- CornRare60points
Why these answers count
The reveal rewards specificity and rarity inside an already narrow pool. The single hundred-point entry, Oden, is the sort of answer only a deep familiarity with the pictograph set produces: a hearty winter stew that most players would never recall as a symbol at all, which is exactly why it tops the board. The eighty-five-point band is crowded with entries that are recognisable but not automatic — Baby bottle, Bento, Falafel, Fondue, Moon cake, Sake, Teapot, Shaved ice, Takeout and dozens of similar picks — each of them a real symbol yet far from the first thing a crowd shouts. At sixty points sit the dependable staples: Avocado, Bacon, Bagel, Bubble tea, Croissant, Cupcake, Curry, Dumpling, Pretzel, Soft ice cream. They are all valid and all easy to reach, so the scoring curve flattens them. Roughly ninety-three of the hundred and fifty recorded answers cleared sixty, which tells you the judges expected a broad field of correct picks; the differentiator was not being right but being unusual while remaining obviously edible.