Krillion Recorded answers
267 recorded answers
How to approach it
Work the colour first, then the botany. Set two minutes and list every edible plant, however exotic, whose flesh, skin or peel reads as orange; do not stop at the four or five names anyone would shout first. When the obvious vein runs dry, change the axis: run through plant parts one by one, then through growing habits, then through cuisines that treat colour as a ripeness signal. Recall comes easier if you walk a market in your head — the root bins, the vine crops, the fruit crates, the berry punnets, the foraged basket. Scoring rewards distance from the obvious, so a name you had to rebuild from a half-memory is usually worth more than one you ate this week. Guess boldly; a small misspelling costs less than a gap.
Get a hint
Start with colour as the single filter: any edible plant part qualifies, whether it grows on a tree, a vine, a bush or underground, and whether it is eaten raw, cooked or pressed.
A little more
Narrow by plant part next: fruits, berries, drupes, vine crops, roots, tubers and a few fungi all carry the shade, so push past the first handful of names that come to mind.
One step further
Aim at tropical and subtropical produce, where the same colour hides behind names that rarely reach a mainstream supermarket shelf and are easily half-remembered.
Reveal answers 267
- GacOne in a Krillion100points
- Abyssinian gooseberryDeep Cut85points
- AcerolaDeep Cut85points
- AchachaDeep Cut85points
- AckeeDeep Cut85points
- African custard-appleDeep Cut85points
- African mangoDeep Cut85points
- African mangosteenDeep Cut85points
- African pear (Manilkara)Deep Cut85points
- Ají amarilloDeep Cut85points
- American pawpawDeep Cut85points
- ApriumDeep Cut85points
- Araticum-de-raposaDeep Cut85points
- Araticum-do-pantanalDeep Cut85points
- Asam kumbangDeep Cut85points
- AzaroleDeep Cut85points
- BacupariDeep Cut85points
- BaelDeep Cut85points
- Banana melonDeep Cut85points
- Banana passionfruitDeep Cut85points
- Banana squashDeep Cut85points
- Barbados gooseberryDeep Cut85points
- Beach sugar appleDeep Cut85points
- Bell appleDeep Cut85points
- Bitter orangeDeep Cut85points
- Black monkey orangeDeep Cut85points
- Blue passionfruitDeep Cut85points
- Blue sweet calabashDeep Cut85points
- Boston marrowDeep Cut85points
- Buttercup squashDeep Cut85points
- Button mangosteenDeep Cut85points
- ByeonggyulDeep Cut85points
- CacaoDeep Cut85points
- Caesar's mushroomDeep Cut85points
- CagaitaDeep Cut85points
- CalabazaDeep Cut85points
- CalamansiDeep Cut85points
- CalendulaDeep Cut85points
- Cam sànhDeep Cut85points
- Cambucá equatorianoDeep Cut85points
- Canada plumDeep Cut85points
- Candy capDeep Cut85points
- Candy roaster squashDeep Cut85points
- CanistelDeep Cut85points
- Cape gooseberryDeep Cut85points
- Carnival squashDeep Cut85points
- Cashew appleDeep Cut85points
- CassabananaDeep Cut85points
- Cedar Bay cherryDeep Cut85points
- CempedakDeep Cut85points
Why these answers count
The reveal is a study in diminishing returns. One entry, Gac, sits alone at 100 points, and it earns that because almost nobody outside its home region has eaten it: the scoring pays for obscurity rather than celebrity. The enormous middle band — 207 answers at 85 — is where the interesting work happens. Abyssinian gooseberry, Achacha, Bael, Cempedak, Lucuma and Canistel all sit there, and what unites them is that each is a real, culinarily documented plant a curious reader might plausibly retrieve but a casual player never will. The twelve familiar names that close the list — Blood orange, Persimmon, Satsuma, Kumquat and their neighbours — land at 60 points, still a passing grade but the minimum the puzzle awards for a correct, unremarkable hit. The lesson is blunt: the colour is easy, the rarity is the score. A plausible exotic name you can defend beats a household one you are sure of, and the gap between 60 and 85 is wider than the gap between 85 and a wrong guess.