Krillion Recorded answers
153 recorded answers
How to approach it
The productive route is to walk the emoji keyboard methodically rather than brainstorm at random. Open the food-and-drink section and read it slot by slot, writing down every entry you recognise, then repeat the pass from memory with the keyboard closed; whatever still surfaces unaided is what a large crowd will also reach, so treat it as your safe floor. After that, widen the net by families rather than by examples: raw ingredients, finished plates, baked goods, preserves, sweet items, hot drinks, cold drinks and alcoholic ones. Each family usually shakes loose two or three entries you skipped. Finish with a deliberate sweep of the odd corners, meaning regional cooking, offal, game and anything you have only ever seen in that keyboard.
Get a hint
Start with the section of the emoji keyboard most people scroll past without reading: nearly every row there is a candidate, so your first job is simply to recall how wide that section is.
A little more
Once you have a rough list, sort it by how each entry is drawn: some are single ingredients, some are finished plates, some are drinks already served, and a few show a container with the food still inside.
One step further
Then work the boundary cases that separate a strong answer from a common one: regional specialities, unusual cuts and less obvious drinks sit in the same set as the staples everyone names first.
Reveal answers 153
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Why these answers count
Scoring here tracks rarity of retrieval rather than obscurity for its own sake. One hundred and fifty-three answers were accepted, and the ninety-six that reached sixty points or more were almost all entries a player can see in the keyboard but rarely thinks to name. The single hundred-point answer sits alone at the top because almost nobody volunteers it; the thirty-seven answers on eighty-five points are the keyboard's quiet residents — Oden, Fugu, Tamale, Dango, Falafel, Moon cake, Rice cracker, Shaved ice — dishes and preparations that are unmistakably drawn yet fall outside a first mental sweep. Sixty points covers the recognisable but crowded tier: Bacon, Bagel, Avocado, Butter, Corn, Crab, Cocktail and Bubble tea, all easy to picture and therefore easy for a large crowd to reach. Frequency of mention decides everything, so the more obvious the entry, the lower it lands, and walking the whole set instead of free-associating is what separates a high total from a safe one.