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
- ĐunlariDeep Cut85points
- DuquesaDeep Cut85points
- Durian pastryDeep Cut85points
- Durian pieDeep Cut85points
- DurtmeshDeep Cut85points
- Dürüm baklavaDeep Cut85points
- Dutch apple tartDeep Cut85points
- Dutch letterDeep Cut85points
- DutchieDeep Cut85points
- Duvanjska gurabijaDeep Cut85points
- DuvshaniotDeep Cut85points
- DziranamahigDeep Cut85points
- DzirietteDeep Cut85points
- DzoweyDeep Cut85points
- Ear-hole fried cakeDeep Cut85points
- Easter biscuitDeep Cut85points
- EbbelkucheDeep Cut85points
- Ecclefechan tartDeep Cut85points
- Eccles cakeDeep Cut85points
- ÉchaudéDeep Cut85points
- Ecuadorian quesadillaDeep Cut85points
- Edirne kurabiyesiDeep Cut85points
- Egg pieDeep Cut85points
- Egg yolk pastryDeep Cut85points
- Egyptian Eid biscuitsDeep Cut85points
- EierscheckeDeep Cut85points
- EinbackDeep Cut85points
- EisenbahnerDeep Cut85points
- Ekison paiDeep Cut85points
- Ekmek kadayıfıDeep Cut85points
- Ekmek kataifiDeep Cut85points
- El louzaDeep Cut85points
- El machmoumDeep Cut85points
- Ela adaDeep Cut85points
- Elberfelder KringelDeep Cut85points
- Elde kesme kadayıfDeep Cut85points
- Elderberry pieDeep Cut85points
- Elderberry TartDeep Cut85points
- Ellu holigeDeep Cut85points
- Elo jheloDeep Cut85points
- Elote (pan dulce)Deep Cut85points
- Empadinha doceDeep Cut85points
- Empanada blancaDeep Cut85points
- Empanada blanqueadaDeep Cut85points
- Empanada cordobesa dulceDeep Cut85points
- Empanada de cajetaDeep Cut85points
- Empanada de camoteDeep Cut85points
- Empanada de cayoteDeep Cut85points
- Empanada de cocoDeep Cut85points
- Empanada de cremaDeep 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.