Krillion Recorded answers
5,193 recorded answers
How to approach it
A productive route runs through technique rather than through a memorized list of famous sweets. Ask which mixtures are stiff enough to hold a shape: enriched yeasted ones, short crumbly ones, laminated ones, stretched ones, and plain flour-and-water ones sweetened only at the end. For each technique, sweep the world's baking cultures mentally and let each one suggest its own small named specialties, including festival items, monastery and bakery traditions, and names that survive in minority dialects. Because scoring rewards rarity, deliberately skip the half-dozen globally famous items and hunt for the local, the seasonal and the obscure. Spelling variants are usually accepted, so write whatever form you know and keep going until you have a dozen candidates to choose from.
Get a hint
Start from the broad family of sweet foods built on a workable, flour-based mixture, and picture the many world cuisines that have their own version of it.
A little more
Narrow it down by preparation: the mixture must be shaped by hand — rolled, twisted, stamped or folded — before it meets the heat, whether oven, griddle or oil.
One step further
Aim for the smaller and more local end of the spectrum: named regional sweets, festival specialties and long-standing shop items score better than the everyday staples everybody thinks of.
Reveal answers 5,193
- Mock apple pieOne in a Krillion100points
- 'NfocacattiDeep Cut85points
- 'NzuddiDeep Cut85points
- 'NzulliniDeep Cut85points
- Aachener PrintenDeep Cut85points
- AachtchenDeep Cut85points
- AardbeienslofDeep Cut85points
- AardbeienvlaaiDeep Cut85points
- AbambarDeep Cut85points
- AbanicoDeep Cut85points
- Abar khaboDeep Cut85points
- AbarankiDeep Cut85points
- Abernethy biscuitDeep Cut85points
- Abingdon bunDeep Cut85points
- Abingdon BunsDeep Cut85points
- AbisinioDeep Cut85points
- Ābolu plātsmaizeDeep Cut85points
- AbrazoDeep Cut85points
- AbrikozenvlaaiDeep Cut85points
- Aburi mochiDeep Cut85points
- AcciuleddiDeep Cut85points
- AceitadasDeep Cut85points
- AcemaDeep Cut85points
- Acemita tocuyanaDeep Cut85points
- AcemitasDeep Cut85points
- Acıbadem kurabiyesiDeep Cut85points
- AdhirasamDeep Cut85points
- AdventurefulsDeep Cut85points
- ÆblebollerDeep Cut85points
- Afghan biscuitDeep Cut85points
- Africa tennisDeep Cut85points
- AgardakDeep Cut85points
- Age manjuDeep Cut85points
- Age yuba manjuDeep Cut85points
- AgepanDeep Cut85points
- AggalaDeep Cut85points
- AghablitDeep Cut85points
- Aghoz nanDeep Cut85points
- Aghuz nunDeep Cut85points
- Agnello pasqualeDeep Cut85points
- AguacataDeep Cut85points
- AhorcaditoDeep Cut85points
- Ai babaDeep Cut85points
- Ainthe mariDeep Cut85points
- AiwowoDeep Cut85points
- Ajari mochiDeep Cut85points
- Ajdova poticaDeep Cut85points
- Akada kutsuwaDeep Cut85points
- AkuarkuarDeep Cut85points
- Alaçatı kurabiyesiDeep Cut85points
Why these answers count
The reveal shows a steep pyramid: one single entry took the top 100-point tier, 4716 entries landed at 85 and 411 at 60. That shape tells you the scoring engine already expected this to be an easy, wide-open category, so almost everything recognizable settles into the middle band. The sole 100-point answer, Mock apple pie, is the outlier — familiar as a concept but unusual as a written guess, which is exactly what pushes a response above the crowd. The 85 band is where the long tail of regional and minority-language sweets lives: 'Nfocacatti, 'Nzuddi, 'Nzullini, Aachener Printen and Aachtchen all sit there, and so do hundreds of similarly obscure names. The 60-point floor is reserved for the handful of defaults, the obvious everyday items most players type first. Practical lesson: an obscure but genuine regional name beats a famous one by 25 points, and a clean, recognized spelling is what keeps a guess on the board.