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
- Empanada de lechecillaDeep Cut85points
- Empanada de manjarDeep Cut85points
- Empanada de peraDeep Cut85points
- Empanada de piloncilloDeep Cut85points
- Empanadas de hojaldre de QuerétaroDeep Cut85points
- Empanadas de plátanoDeep Cut85points
- EmpanadicoDeep Cut85points
- EmpanadilhasDeep Cut85points
- EmpanochadaDeep Cut85points
- EmpiñonadoDeep Cut85points
- Empire biscuitDeep Cut85points
- EnaceitadoDeep Cut85points
- EncaladillaDeep Cut85points
- EncaneladosDeep Cut85points
- EncytumDeep Cut85points
- EnlustradosDeep Cut85points
- EnrejadosDeep Cut85points
- EnrolladoDeep Cut85points
- EntornaoDeep Cut85points
- Enxovalhada de TorresmosDeep Cut85points
- Epiphany tartDeep Cut85points
- Es pisang ijoDeep Cut85points
- EscarpiadaDeep Cut85points
- Esfiha doceDeep Cut85points
- Esikyire dokonuDeep Cut85points
- EspasolDeep Cut85points
- Espécies de São JorgeDeep Cut85points
- EspejitosDeep Cut85points
- EspejoDeep Cut85points
- Esperanças dos AçoresDeep Cut85points
- EsquecidosDeep Cut85points
- Esse adrieseDeep Cut85points
- Esse di RaveoDeep Cut85points
- Esses de AzeitãoDeep Cut85points
- Essex ShortcakeDeep Cut85points
- EstrellitasDeep Cut85points
- Fa'ausiDeep Cut85points
- Facciuni di Santa ChiaraDeep Cut85points
- FacturasDeep Cut85points
- FafernuchyDeep Cut85points
- Faikakai malimaliDeep Cut85points
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- FallueDeep Cut85points
- FanchonnetteDeep Cut85points
- Fang cuibingDeep Cut85points
- FánkDeep Cut85points
- FantasmasDeep Cut85points
- FardelejoDeep Cut85points
- Fari masaDeep Cut85points
- FarinosaDeep 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.