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
- Krong krang wanDeep Cut85points
- KrònskùùcheDeep Cut85points
- KrotekakeDeep Cut85points
- KruimelvlaaiDeep Cut85points
- KruisbessenvlaaiDeep Cut85points
- KrumiriDeep Cut85points
- KrustiniDeep Cut85points
- KserotiganaDeep Cut85points
- KuchenDeep Cut85points
- KūčiukaiDeep Cut85points
- KúdelníkDeep Cut85points
- Kue akar kelapaDeep Cut85points
- Kue bagiakDeep Cut85points
- Kue bangkitDeep Cut85points
- Kue biji ketapangDeep Cut85points
- Kue bugisDeep Cut85points
- Kue dangeDeep Cut85points
- Kue gemblongDeep Cut85points
- Kue getasDeep Cut85points
- Kue jemblemDeep Cut85points
- Kue kacangDeep Cut85points
- Kue kerak keringDeep Cut85points
- Kue koyabuDeep Cut85points
- Kue kuping gajahDeep Cut85points
- Kue lepatDeep Cut85points
- Kue makmurDeep Cut85points
- Kue mohoDeep Cut85points
- Kue putri saljuDeep Cut85points
- Kue rintakDeep Cut85points
- Kue sagonDeep Cut85points
- Kue saguDeep Cut85points
- Kue satuDeep Cut85points
- Kue sempritDeep Cut85points
- Kue untuk-untukDeep Cut85points
- Kuih batang burukDeep Cut85points
- Kuih bunga pudakDeep Cut85points
- Kuih cincinDeep Cut85points
- Kuih dangaiDeep Cut85points
- Kuih denderamDeep Cut85points
- Kuih gelangDeep Cut85points
- Kuih keriaDeep Cut85points
- Kuih lidahDeep Cut85points
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- Kuih TaiwanDeep Cut85points
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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.