Krillion Recorded answers
775 recorded answers
How to approach it
The productive move is to build a long list before judging any of it. Work through several lenses in turn: the baked and gratined end of the repertoire, the brothy and soup-like end, the chilled salad end, the fried and street-food end, and the convenience-food end where packaged versions live. Then push outward geographically, into regional dialects of the same idea, immigrant adaptations, and dishes named after a place, a vessel or a sauce. Write down thirty or forty candidates before pruning. Because scoring rewards rarity, sort the survivors from most familiar to least and spend your final answer on the obscure end: a dish only a specialist would recall is worth far more than a household staple that thousands of other players will also submit.
Get a hint
Start with the shape of the meal rather than the shape of the noodle: is it a first course, a one-pot supper, a side for a cookout, or something eaten straight from a tin?
A little more
Move outward from one country's repertoire to the diaspora and the home kitchen, where the same staples get baked with cheese, simmered in broth, or tossed cold with a creamy dressing.
One step further
Chase the compound names, the ones that stack a place, a sauce, a protein or a cooking vessel onto the pasta word, since those are the titles a general audience rarely reaches for.
Reveal answers 775
- Campbell's Chicken & StarsDeep Cut85points
- Cannelloni alla BarbarouxDeep Cut85points
- Capelettis a la CarusoDeep Cut85points
- CappellacciDeep Cut85points
- CappellettiDeep Cut85points
- Cappelletti in brodoDeep Cut85points
- CapunsDeep Cut85points
- CapunseiDeep Cut85points
- CaramelleDeep Cut85points
- CasoncelliDeep Cut85points
- Cassola de fideusDeep Cut85points
- CasunzieiDeep Cut85points
- Cavatelli al ragùDeep Cut85points
- Cavatelli con le cozzeDeep Cut85points
- Cavatelli con rucola e pomodoroDeep Cut85points
- Cavatelli con sugo e cacioricottaDeep Cut85points
- Cavati e ravioli alla ragusanaDeep Cut85points
- CavatiniDeep Cut85points
- Ceppe al sugoDeep Cut85points
- Cevizli erişteDeep Cut85points
- Charlie Chan pastaDeep Cut85points
- Cheeseburger macaroniDeep Cut85points
- Chicken and bacon pastaDeep Cut85points
- Chicken and broccoli zitiDeep Cut85points
- Chicken and chorizo pastaDeep Cut85points
- Chicken and noodlesDeep Cut85points
- Chicken and pastryDeep Cut85points
- Chicken bacon ranch pastaDeep Cut85points
- Chicken BellagioDeep Cut85points
- Chicken enchilada pastaDeep Cut85points
- Chicken fajita pastaDeep Cut85points
- Chicken Florentine pastaDeep Cut85points
- Chicken HelperDeep Cut85points
- Chicken marsala pastaDeep Cut85points
- Chicken noodle casseroleDeep Cut85points
- Chicken parmesan pastaDeep Cut85points
- Chicken pasta bakeDeep Cut85points
- Chicken piccata pastaDeep Cut85points
- Chicken riggiesDeep Cut85points
- Chicken tequila fettuccineDeep Cut85points
- Chipotle pastaDeep Cut85points
- ChnéffléneDeep Cut85points
- Chorba langues d'oiseauxDeep Cut85points
- ChuchvaraDeep Cut85points
- Ciceri e triaDeep Cut85points
- Cimcik erişteDeep Cut85points
- Ciriole alla ternanaDeep Cut85points
- CjarsonsDeep Cut85points
- Coditos con salchichasDeep Cut85points
- ColțunașiDeep Cut85points
Why these answers count
With 764 recorded answers, this question rewards breadth of knowledge rather than quick recall. Only one submission reached the top mark of 100, while 638 clustered at 85 and 98 settled at 60, a shape that says the scoring band is narrow at the top and enormously crowded in the middle. The names that earned 85 are overwhelmingly dialect dishes and regional specialities that a non-local would have to have read about: Agnolini, Älplermagronen, Amish noodles, Anelletti al forno. That is the signature of an answer pool where the familiar staples, the ones a hundred thousand players type in the first ten seconds, were worth less, leaving the second and third tier of obscure-but-real dishes to carry the 85 band. The single 100-point entry went to Pastasciutta antifascista, a politically named dish almost nobody outside one country's food writing would produce. The lesson: the more specific the name, the smaller the crowd, the higher the score.