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
- Jaje tujakDeep Cut85points
- JallullaDeep Cut85points
- JalousieDeep Cut85points
- Jam JamsDeep Cut85points
- Jam panDeep Cut85points
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- Jambo mochiDeep Cut85points
- Jan HagelDeep Cut85points
- Jan Smuts tartletDeep Cut85points
- Japanese fruit pieDeep Cut85points
- Jari panDeep Cut85points
- JausiereineDeep Cut85points
- Jeannot d'AlbiDeep Cut85points
- JeanotDeep Cut85points
- Jeera biscuitDeep Cut85points
- Jelly cream pieDeep Cut85points
- Jelly stickDeep Cut85points
- JenamaniDeep Cut85points
- JeolpyeonDeep Cut85points
- Jersey wonderDeep Cut85points
- JésuiteDeep Cut85points
- Jewish almond cookieDeep Cut85points
- JežečciDeep Cut85points
- Jhinuk pithaDeep Cut85points
- Jiangmi tiaoDeep Cut85points
- Jiangsi paichaDeep Cut85points
- Jiaoyan bingDeep Cut85points
- JidášeDeep Cut85points
- JilebiDeep Cut85points
- Jilledu kayaluDeep Cut85points
- JitterbuggareDeep Cut85points
- Jiujiang jin deuiDeep Cut85points
- Jiuniang bingDeep Cut85points
- Jiuniang yuanziDeep Cut85points
- Jiyou bingDeep Cut85points
- JødekagerDeep Cut85points
- Joe FroggerDeep Cut85points
- John Peel TartDeep Cut85points
- Jolbhora sandeshDeep Cut85points
- JoulutorttuDeep Cut85points
- Jouster pofDeep Cut85points
- Joyo manjuDeep Cut85points
- JuakDeep Cut85points
- Juan gaoDeep Cut85points
- Juan suDeep Cut85points
- JuanguilaDeep Cut85points
- Jubilee cakeDeep Cut85points
- JubniyaDeep Cut85points
- Jugu cakeDeep Cut85points
- Juhong gaoDeep 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.