Krillion Recorded answers
5,203 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 5,203
- Baku lokumDeep Cut85points
- Bal boorsokDeep Cut85points
- BałabuchyDeep Cut85points
- BalabushkyDeep Cut85points
- Balderstone CakesDeep Cut85points
- Balish mishtiDeep Cut85points
- BallebäuschenDeep Cut85points
- BallokumeDeep Cut85points
- BalluriyehDeep Cut85points
- Baltimore peach cakeDeep Cut85points
- Bam-ppangDeep Cut85points
- Bamba de nataDeep Cut85points
- BambalouniDeep Cut85points
- BañadasDeep Cut85points
- Banana manjuDeep Cut85points
- Banana rollDeep Cut85points
- BananenvlaaiDeep Cut85points
- Banbury apple pieDeep Cut85points
- Banbury cakeDeep Cut85points
- Bandang-bandangDeep Cut85points
- BanderillaDeep Cut85points
- BandumaDeep Cut85points
- BanforaDeep Cut85points
- Bang saDeep Cut85points
- Bánh bao ca déDeep Cut85points
- Bánh bao chayDeep Cut85points
- Bánh bao chỉDeep Cut85points
- Bánh chảDeep Cut85points
- Bánh chayDeep Cut85points
- Bánh chè lamDeep Cut85points
- Bánh cốmDeep Cut85points
- Bánh đậu xanh trái câyDeep Cut85points
- Bánh dàyDeep Cut85points
- Bánh dừa nướngDeep Cut85points
- Banh gaiDeep Cut85points
- Bánh hoa hồngDeep Cut85points
- Bánh hoa maiDeep Cut85points
- Bánh hoa mai nhân khómDeep Cut85points
- Bánh hoa senDeep Cut85points
- Bánh inDeep Cut85points
- Banh itDeep Cut85points
- Bánh ít lá gaiDeep Cut85points
- Bánh khảoDeep Cut85points
- Bánh khoai langDeep Cut85points
- Bánh menDeep Cut85points
- Bánh mì ngọtDeep Cut85points
- Bánh nhãnDeep Cut85points
- Bánh phồng sữaDeep Cut85points
- Bánh phục linhDeep Cut85points
- Bánh quai vạc ngọtDeep 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.