Krillion Recorded answers
764 recorded answers
How to approach it
Start by generating volume rather than precision: spend the first minute writing every dish you would put on a menu, then deliberately push past them. Work through structural slots — a shape, a filling, a sauce, a cooking method, a serving temperature — and combine them, because dishes with a qualifying word usually count as separate entries. Next, sweep by kitchen tradition: home cooking, festive cooking, street food, restaurant classics, and dishes carried by emigrant communities. Read each candidate back against the wording and drop bare sauces, raw ingredients and garnish-only plates. Finally, keep the strangest plausible names you can actually define; if you can describe what is in it and where it comes from, it is probably a legitimate entry.
Get a hint
Most people stop at the first few dishes that come to mind, so deliberately widen the field: dried shapes, fresh shapes, stuffed parcels, oven trays, soups and cold mixes all belong here.
A little more
Every kitchen that works with wheat eventually folded pasta into its own repertoire, and the name often stays in the local language rather than being translated.
One step further
The richest ground sits at the far end of the scale: compound names that add a sauce, a filling, a cooking vessel or a town-style qualifier, instead of the handful of dishes printed on every menu.
Reveal answers 764
- Pastasciutta antifascistaOne in a Krillion100points
- AgnoliniDeep Cut85points
- Agnolotti gobbiDeep Cut85points
- ÄlplermagronenDeep Cut85points
- Amish macaroni saladDeep Cut85points
- Amish noodlesDeep Cut85points
- Andarinos al sugoDeep Cut85points
- Anelletti al fornoDeep Cut85points
- Ankake spaghettiDeep Cut85points
- AnoliniDeep Cut85points
- ArishtaDeep Cut85points
- Armenian mantiDeep Cut85points
- Arpa şehriye pilavıDeep Cut85points
- Ash reshtehDeep Cut85points
- AshakDeep Cut85points
- AstakomakaronadaDeep Cut85points
- Asun pastaDeep Cut85points
- AvgolemonoDeep Cut85points
- Avocado pastaDeep Cut85points
- BaastoDeep Cut85points
- Bacon ranch pasta saladDeep Cut85points
- BalaleetDeep Cut85points
- BalanzoniDeep Cut85points
- Bang bang shrimp pastaDeep Cut85points
- Bangus spaghettiDeep Cut85points
- BarátfüleDeep Cut85points
- Barbecue spaghettiDeep Cut85points
- Bardele coi maraiDeep Cut85points
- BattolliDeep Cut85points
- Bavette alla fornaiaDeep Cut85points
- Bavette sul pesceDeep Cut85points
- BBQ chicken pastaDeep Cut85points
- Beef and noodlesDeep Cut85points
- BeefaroniDeep Cut85points
- BerkoukesDeep Cut85points
- Big Mac pastaDeep Cut85points
- Bigoli col mussoDeep Cut85points
- Bigoli con l'anatraDeep Cut85points
- Bigoli in salsaDeep Cut85points
- Blood pastaDeep Cut85points
- BLT pasta saladDeep Cut85points
- Borș de burechiușeDeep Cut85points
- Boursin pastaDeep Cut85points
- Broccoli pasta saladDeep Cut85points
- Buffalo chicken pastaDeep Cut85points
- Busiate al pesto trapaneseDeep Cut85points
- CaccavelleDeep Cut85points
- CajettesDeep Cut85points
- Caldo de gallinaDeep Cut85points
- Campbell's Chicken & StarsDeep Cut85points
Why these answers count
The scoring here rewards specificity far more than fame. Of 753 recorded answers, 715 reached at least 60 points, but the shape of that band tells the story: 542 landed at 85, 172 at 60, and a single entry hit 100. The 85-point mass is where the genuinely regional, dialectal and compound names sit — Agnolini, Agnolotti, Älplermagronen, Amish macaroni salad, Anelletti al forno, Cappelletti in brodo and dozens of similar entries. Each is a real, definable dish, yet narrow enough that few players reach for it, which is exactly what the puzzle pays for. The 60-point group behaves like a safety net for correct but widely available answers, and it is a much smaller pool, suggesting most solvers who committed to an unusual name were rewarded for it. Pastasciutta antifascista, the lone 100, goes a step further: a compound name with a story attached, almost impossible to arrive at by generic brainstorming. So the lesson is to answer with the most precise name you can defend, not the most recognisable one.