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
- MakarounaDeep Cut85points
- MakarounehDeep Cut85points
- Makaruna imbaukhaDeep Cut85points
- Mákos tésztaDeep Cut85points
- Malfatti con burro e salviaDeep Cut85points
- Malloreddus alla campidaneseDeep Cut85points
- Mandilli de sæa al pestoDeep Cut85points
- ManestraDeep Cut85points
- MantıDeep Cut85points
- Mantu (Afghan)Deep Cut85points
- MarubiniDeep Cut85points
- MassadaDeep Cut85points
- MaultaschenDeep Cut85points
- Mentaiko spaghettiDeep Cut85points
- MezzeluneDeep Cut85points
- MhamsaDeep Cut85points
- MilchnudelnDeep Cut85points
- MillefantiDeep Cut85points
- Million dollar spaghettiDeep Cut85points
- Minchiareddhi al sugoDeep Cut85points
- Minestrone alla genoveseDeep Cut85points
- Mizore spaghettiDeep Cut85points
- MlinciDeep Cut85points
- MoghrabiehDeep Cut85points
- MohnnudelnDeep Cut85points
- MpurnatuDeep Cut85points
- Natto spaghettiDeep Cut85points
- Nidi di rondineDeep Cut85points
- Nissin Spa-ODeep Cut85points
- Nōgata yaki-supaDeep Cut85points
- Noodle hotdishDeep Cut85points
- Noodle latkesDeep Cut85points
- Noodles RomanoffDeep Cut85points
- Nouilles alsaciennesDeep Cut85points
- Nui xào bòDeep Cut85points
- NwasserDeep Cut85points
- One pot pastaDeep Cut85points
- Orecchiette al pomodoro e cacioricottaDeep Cut85points
- Orecchiette al ragùDeep Cut85points
- Orecchiette alla crudaiolaDeep Cut85points
- Orecchiette alla materanaDeep Cut85points
- Orecchiette con braciole di cavalloDeep Cut85points
- Orecchiette con cime di rapaDeep Cut85points
- Orecchiette con salsicciaDeep Cut85points
- OrecchioniDeep Cut85points
- Paccheri ripieniDeep Cut85points
- Paglia e fienoDeep Cut85points
- PansottiDeep Cut85points
- PantrucasDeep Cut85points
- Panzerotti di magro venetiDeep 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.