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
- Coquillettes jambonDeep Cut85points
- Corzetti al pestoDeep Cut85points
- Cottage cheese pastaDeep Cut85points
- Couscous alla trapaneseDeep Cut85points
- Crawfish fettuccineDeep Cut85points
- Crawfish MonicaDeep Cut85points
- Creamy Tuscan chicken pastaDeep Cut85points
- CrozifletteDeep Cut85points
- CulurgionesDeep Cut85points
- Dill pickle pasta saladDeep Cut85points
- Diós tésztaDeep Cut85points
- Dominican spaghettiDeep Cut85points
- DonderetDeep Cut85points
- DushbaraDeep Cut85points
- Easy MacDeep Cut85points
- EiernockerlDeep Cut85points
- Ensalada de coditosDeep Cut85points
- ErişteDeep Cut85points
- Erişte ÇorbasıDeep Cut85points
- Eritrean pastaDeep Cut85points
- Espagueti a la cremaDeep Cut85points
- Espagueti rojoDeep Cut85points
- Espagueti verdeDeep Cut85points
- Etli MakarnaDeep Cut85points
- Evelyn's Favorite PastaDeep Cut85points
- Falsi testaroli al ragùDeep Cut85points
- Fenescecchie al ragùDeep Cut85points
- Fettuccine all'abruzzeseDeep Cut85points
- Fettuccine alla papalinaDeep Cut85points
- Fettuccine alla romanaDeep Cut85points
- Fideo locoDeep Cut85points
- Fideo secoDeep Cut85points
- Fideo uchuDeep Cut85points
- Fideos a la CazuelaDeep Cut85points
- Fideos al HornoDeep Cut85points
- Fideos con almejasDeep Cut85points
- Fideos con tucoDeep Cut85points
- Fideos tostadosDeep Cut85points
- FideuàDeep Cut85points
- Fideus de vermarDeep Cut85points
- Filipino baked macaroniDeep Cut85points
- Filipino macaroni saladDeep Cut85points
- Fırın makarnaDeep Cut85points
- FrascarelliDeep Cut85points
- Fregnacce alla sabinaDeep Cut85points
- Fregola con arselleDeep Cut85points
- Fregola con salsicciaDeep Cut85points
- Fregola in brodoDeep Cut85points
- French onion pastaDeep Cut85points
- Fried lasagnaDeep 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.