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
- Halwat tabaaDeep Cut85points
- Ham chim pengDeep Cut85points
- Hama suDeep Cut85points
- HamaliaDeep Cut85points
- Hamburger ApfeltorteDeep Cut85points
- Hana bouruDeep Cut85points
- HanabiramochiDeep Cut85points
- Hanácký koláčDeep Cut85points
- HanakusoDeep Cut85points
- Hanami dangoDeep Cut85points
- HandeshDeep Cut85points
- HanklichDeep Cut85points
- Hannatädin kakutDeep Cut85points
- HansakeliDeep Cut85points
- HardangerlefseDeep Cut85points
- HariatDeep Cut85points
- HarinosaDeep Cut85points
- Hasekura-yakiDeep Cut85points
- HaselnussbredeleDeep Cut85points
- HasenöhrlDeep Cut85points
- Haşhaşlı çörekDeep Cut85points
- Hashirii mochiDeep Cut85points
- HashirimochiDeep Cut85points
- Haskap pieDeep Cut85points
- Hastings FavouritesDeep Cut85points
- HavregrynskageDeep Cut85points
- HavremakronerDeep Cut85points
- Havuç dilimiDeep Cut85points
- HäwekließlaDeep Cut85points
- Hawkshead wigDeep Cut85points
- Hayrabolu tatlısıDeep Cut85points
- Hechuan taopianDeep Cut85points
- HefeteilchenDeep Cut85points
- HefezopfDeep Cut85points
- HeidesandDeep Cut85points
- HeißweckeDeep Cut85points
- HelligtrekongerskageDeep Cut85points
- Hello PandaDeep Cut85points
- Henba mochiDeep Cut85points
- Heong PengDeep Cut85points
- Herahera dangoDeep Cut85points
- HermitDeep Cut85points
- HernhutterDeep Cut85points
- HerradurasDeep Cut85points
- Hertford Hard GingerbreadDeep Cut85points
- HertzoggieDeep Cut85points
- Hevva cakeDeep Cut85points
- HichigiriDeep Cut85points
- Hilandarska gurabijaDeep Cut85points
- HildabrödleDeep 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.