Krillion 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
- Israeli couscousDeep Cut85points
- Johnny MarzettiDeep Cut85points
- Jollof spaghettiDeep Cut85points
- JufkaDeep Cut85points
- Kakaós tésztaDeep Cut85points
- Kärntner KasnudelnDeep Cut85points
- KäsespätzleDeep Cut85points
- Kasha varnishkesDeep Cut85points
- Kielbasa and noodlesDeep Cut85points
- Kimchi pastaDeep Cut85points
- KlepeDeep Cut85points
- KluskiDeep Cut85points
- Kluski kładzioneDeep Cut85points
- Kluski laneDeep Cut85points
- KniddelenDeep Cut85points
- Knorr Pasta SidesDeep Cut85points
- Kokkinisto kritharakiDeep Cut85points
- KoldūnaiDeep Cut85points
- KopytkaDeep Cut85points
- Korean cream pastaDeep Cut85points
- Kotopoulo me hilopitesDeep Cut85points
- KrautfleckerlDeep Cut85points
- KrautkrapfenDeep Cut85points
- KrautspätzleDeep Cut85points
- KreplachDeep Cut85points
- KritharotoDeep Cut85points
- Krumplis tésztaDeep Cut85points
- KundyumyDeep Cut85points
- KushariDeep Cut85points
- KusksuDeep Cut85points
- Kuskus pilavıDeep Cut85points
- Lagane con purè di faveDeep Cut85points
- Lagane e ceciDeep Cut85points
- Lasagna napoletanaDeep Cut85points
- Lasagna roll-upsDeep Cut85points
- Lasagne ai carciofiDeep Cut85points
- Lasagne al pestoDeep Cut85points
- Lasagne al radicchioDeep Cut85points
- Lasagne al sangueDeep Cut85points
- Lasagne bastardeDeep Cut85points
- Lasagne biancheDeep Cut85points
- Lasagne con i semi di papaveroDeep Cut85points
- Lasagne da fornelDeep Cut85points
- Lasagne verdiDeep Cut85points
- ŁazankiDeep Cut85points
- Lazy lasagnaDeep Cut85points
- Le virtùDeep Cut85points
- LeberspätzleDeep Cut85points
- Lecsós tésztaDeep Cut85points
- Lekváros tésztaDeep 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.