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
- Paparele e figadiniDeep Cut85points
- Pappardelle al ragù di cinta seneseDeep Cut85points
- Pappardelle all'anatraDeep Cut85points
- Pappardelle alla lepreDeep Cut85points
- Pappardelle con i bisiDeep Cut85points
- Parmitieddi di Teggiano al sugoDeep Cut85points
- Passatelli in brodoDeep Cut85points
- Pasta 'n' SauceDeep Cut85points
- Pasta 'ncasciataDeep Cut85points
- Pasta ai sassiDeep Cut85points
- Pasta al fuméDeep Cut85points
- Pasta al gorgonzolaDeep Cut85points
- Pasta al pesto di pistacchioDeep Cut85points
- Pasta al pesto nissenoDeep Cut85points
- Pasta al ragù biancoDeep Cut85points
- Pasta al sugo di capraDeep Cut85points
- Pasta alla boscaiolaDeep Cut85points
- Pasta alla calabreseDeep Cut85points
- Pasta alla carcerataDeep Cut85points
- Pasta alla checcaDeep Cut85points
- Pasta alla chitarra con i pelosiDeep Cut85points
- Pasta alla genoveseDeep Cut85points
- Pasta alla griciaDeep Cut85points
- Pasta alla norcinaDeep Cut85points
- Pasta alla paolinaDeep Cut85points
- Pasta alla pecoraraDeep Cut85points
- Pasta alla sicilianaDeep Cut85points
- Pasta alla trabaccolaraDeep Cut85points
- Pasta alla vesuvianaDeep Cut85points
- Pasta alla zozzonaDeep Cut85points
- Pasta alle arselleDeep Cut85points
- Pasta allo scammaroDeep Cut85points
- Pasta allo sparoneDeep Cut85points
- Pasta bread bowlDeep Cut85points
- Pasta burro e salviaDeep Cut85points
- Pasta ca nunnataDeep Cut85points
- Pasta cacio e uovaDeep Cut85points
- Pasta chipsDeep Cut85points
- Pasta chjinaDeep Cut85points
- Pasta con ceci e 'ndujaDeep Cut85points
- Pasta con i broccoli arriminatiDeep Cut85points
- Pasta con i cannolicchiDeep Cut85points
- Pasta con i carciofiDeep Cut85points
- Pasta con i peperoni cruschiDeep Cut85points
- Pasta con i tenerumiDeep Cut85points
- Pasta con il capuliatoDeep Cut85points
- Pasta con il macco di faveDeep Cut85points
- Pasta con il pesce spadaDeep Cut85points
- Pasta con la 'ndujaDeep Cut85points
- Pasta con la ricottaDeep 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.