Krillion Recorded answers
5,213 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 5,213
- Brown sugar dumplingsDeep Cut85points
- Brown sugar guokuiDeep Cut85points
- Brown sugar pieDeep Cut85points
- Broyé du PoitouDeep Cut85points
- Brugs beschuitDeep Cut85points
- Brugse achtenDeep Cut85points
- Brukowiec mazurskiDeep Cut85points
- Brune koekeDeep Cut85points
- BrunsliDeep Cut85points
- BrunsvigerDeep Cut85points
- Brusselse kermisDeep Cut85points
- Brutti boni di PratoDeep Cut85points
- BrysselkexDeep Cut85points
- Bua loyDeep Cut85points
- Buah rotanDeep Cut85points
- Bubur candilDeep Cut85points
- BuccellatoDeep Cut85points
- BuchcikiDeep Cut85points
- BuchtelnDeep Cut85points
- Buchty śląskieDeep Cut85points
- Büd boovDeep Cut85points
- BuhtiDeep Cut85points
- BuiadnikDeep Cut85points
- BukajDeep Cut85points
- BukaylaDeep Cut85points
- BukkumiDeep Cut85points
- BukmeDeep Cut85points
- Buko pieDeep Cut85points
- Buko tartDeep Cut85points
- Bülbül yuvasıDeep Cut85points
- Bulla cakeDeep Cut85points
- Bumbleberry pieDeep Cut85points
- BundevaraDeep Cut85points
- Bündner NusstorteDeep Cut85points
- Buñelos dåguDeep Cut85points
- Buñuelos de calabaza de NaldaDeep Cut85points
- Buñuelos de yucaDeep Cut85points
- BunyeteDeep Cut85points
- Bunyols de carabassaDeep Cut85points
- Bunyols de patataDeep Cut85points
- BupyeonDeep Cut85points
- Bur hindiDeep Cut85points
- Bur kiliyoowDeep Cut85points
- Bur tuugDeep Cut85points
- Burec (sweet)Deep Cut85points
- Burger BrezelDeep Cut85points
- BurkānmaizīteDeep Cut85points
- BúrkifliDeep Cut85points
- Burma tatlısıDeep Cut85points
- Burnley Fig PieDeep 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.