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
- MahuaDeep Cut85points
- MaicilloDeep Cut85points
- Maids of honourDeep Cut85points
- Maidstone biscuitDeep Cut85points
- MailänderliDeep Cut85points
- MaizenakoekjeDeep Cut85points
- Majiang tangbingDeep Cut85points
- Makarana tortaDeep Cut85points
- Mákos piteDeep Cut85points
- MakroudDeep Cut85points
- Malai chopDeep Cut85points
- Malai kajaDeep Cut85points
- Malai rotiDeep Cut85points
- MalaoDeep Cut85points
- MalatitDeep Cut85points
- Malaysian coconut pieDeep Cut85points
- MalfoufDeep Cut85points
- MalidaluDeep Cut85points
- Malvani khajeDeep Cut85points
- MamadoruDeep Cut85points
- Mame daifukuDeep Cut85points
- Mame panDeep Cut85points
- MamrousDeep Cut85points
- Manchester tartDeep Cut85points
- Manda pithaDeep Cut85points
- MandelbergDeep Cut85points
- MandelbrotDeep Cut85points
- MandelfischDeep Cut85points
- MandelhörnchenDeep Cut85points
- MandelkringelDeep Cut85points
- MandelkubbDeep Cut85points
- MandelpotetDeep Cut85points
- MandigeDeep Cut85points
- MandocaDeep Cut85points
- MandrykyDeep Cut85points
- MandugwaDeep Cut85points
- Mang gong bengDeep Cut85points
- Mangalore bunsDeep Cut85points
- Mangia e beiDeep Cut85points
- ManitaDeep Cut85points
- ManjuDeep Cut85points
- ManneleDeep Cut85points
- ManoharaDeep Cut85points
- Manohara undeDeep Cut85points
- ManoharamDeep Cut85points
- MantecadoDeep Cut85points
- Maple syrup pieDeep Cut85points
- MaqasqasDeep Cut85points
- MaqshushDeep Cut85points
- Maraca pieDeep 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.