Recorded answers
775 recorded answers
How to approach it
Work outward from the centre rather than trying to recall one perfect name. Begin with the dishes in your own weeknight rotation, then move to the repertoire of the region your family cooks from, then to the restaurant plates you have ordered and the holiday versions you have only read about. Each layer you add widens the pool and pushes you toward names fewer players will reach. Keep a mental list of forms as well as recipes: filled, baked, brothy, cold, fried, and the leftover reworkings that became dishes of their own. Before settling, ask whether the name you have chosen is a dish or merely a shape or a sauce, since only the former competes.
Get a hint
Start from the widest possible frame: this is one of the largest food families in existence, so virtually every culinary tradition on earth offers at least one member worth naming.
A little more
Move from the plain everyday to the ceremonial: weeknight staples, holiday centrepieces, cold buffet dishes and slow-simmered festival preparations are all fair game here.
One step further
Push past the obvious handful by thinking in structures rather than recipes: filled parcels, tray-baked assemblies, broth-served bowls, and dishes that arrived with migration and were renamed locally.
Reveal answers 775
- Spoja LordaDeep Cut85points
- Šporki makaruliDeep Cut85points
- StrangolapretiDeep Cut85points
- Strangozzi al tartufoDeep Cut85points
- Strangozzi alla spoletinaDeep Cut85points
- Strascinati alla mollicaDeep Cut85points
- Stroncatura alla calabreseDeep Cut85points
- Strozzapreti al ragùDeep Cut85points
- Strozzapreti alla PastoraDeep Cut85points
- ŠtrukliDeep Cut85points
- Stufati di TeggianoDeep Cut85points
- StufatuDeep Cut85points
- Su böreğiDeep Cut85points
- Su succuDeep Cut85points
- Suddenly SaladDeep Cut85points
- Sugeli with brussDeep Cut85points
- ŠúľanceDeep Cut85points
- Sun-dried tomato pastaDeep Cut85points
- Sup MakaroniDeep Cut85points
- Súp nuiDeep Cut85points
- Sup s vermishelyuDeep Cut85points
- Taco pastaDeep Cut85points
- Taco pasta saladDeep Cut85points
- Tagliatelle al PapaveroDeep Cut85points
- Tagliatelle al prosciuttoDeep Cut85points
- Tagliolini alla CampobassoDeep Cut85points
- Tagliolini in brodoDeep Cut85points
- Taiàrin e còiDeep Cut85points
- Tallarín de polloDeep Cut85points
- Tallarín saltadoDeep Cut85points
- Tallarines a la huancaínaDeep Cut85points
- Tallarines con estofadoDeep Cut85points
- Tallarines rojosDeep Cut85points
- Tallarines verdesDeep Cut85points
- Tarako spaghettiDeep Cut85points
- Tarhonyás húsDeep Cut85points
- Tatar böreğiDeep Cut85points
- Testaroli con PestoDeep Cut85points
- TimballoDeep Cut85points
- TimpanaDeep Cut85points
- Tinned spaghettiDeep Cut85points
- TlitliDeep Cut85points
- Tom yum spaghettiDeep Cut85points
- Tomato beef spaghettiDeep Cut85points
- Tomato macaroni soupDeep Cut85points
- Toowoomba pastaDeep Cut85points
- TopfennudelnDeep Cut85points
- Tordelli LucchesiDeep Cut85points
- Tortel Dols di ColornoDeep Cut85points
- TortellacciDeep Cut85points
Why these answers count
The reveal shows a steep pyramid rather than a flat list. A single entry, Pastasciutta antifascista, stands alone at 100 points, which is what happens when exactly one player among 775 recorded answers finds a name nobody else reaches. Beneath it sit 649 answers tied at 85, the enormous middle of the distribution: names that are unmistakably dishes yet specific enough that most people never think of them, whether a regional filled pasta such as Agnolini, a home-kitchen staple like Älplermagronen, or a diaspora adaptation such as Amish macaroni salad. The 98 answers at 60 points are the ones the crowd arrives at first, the obvious, broadly marketed preparations that hundreds of players can summon in seconds. Rarity, not quality, drives the score: the copy on your plate can be excellent and still land in the bottom tier because everyone else named it too. Hunting for the obscure is the whole game.