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
- Mazapan de piliDeep Cut85points
- Mazapán de SotoDeep Cut85points
- Mazapan de TejedaDeep Cut85points
- Mazapán guatemaltecoDeep Cut85points
- MazarinDeep Cut85points
- MazurekDeep Cut85points
- MbatataDeep Cut85points
- MbessesDeep Cut85points
- MbriachelleDeep Cut85points
- McheklaDeep Cut85points
- MchewekDeep Cut85points
- MěchuraDeep Cut85points
- MecoulinDeep Cut85points
- MedákyDeep Cut85points
- Medala'aDeep Cut85points
- MedaljerDeep Cut85points
- Medallones de ValjunqueraDeep Cut85points
- Medena pitaDeep Cut85points
- Medeni kolačDeep Cut85points
- MedenkaDeep Cut85points
- MedialunaDeep Cut85points
- Međimurska gibanicaDeep Cut85points
- Medvědí tlapkyDeep Cut85points
- Meethi tikiyaDeep Cut85points
- MehlpüttDeep Cut85points
- Meias luasDeep Cut85points
- Meimao su (eyebrow pastry)Deep Cut85points
- Meißner FummelDeep Cut85points
- MeitschibeiDeep Cut85points
- MekitsaDeep Cut85points
- Melbourne wakes cakesDeep Cut85points
- MelindreDeep Cut85points
- Melindres de AroucaDeep Cut85points
- Melindres de RibadaviaDeep Cut85points
- Melindres de YepesDeep Cut85points
- MelitiniaDeep Cut85points
- MelktertDeep Cut85points
- MelomakaronaDeep Cut85points
- Melting momentDeep Cut85points
- Memminger ZuckerbrotDeep Cut85points
- Mengfeng bingDeep Cut85points
- Mera pithaDeep Cut85points
- MeravigliasDeep Cut85points
- Merveille de BordeauxDeep Cut85points
- MestizaDeep Cut85points
- Mexericos de freirasDeep Cut85points
- Mexican bunDeep Cut85points
- Mexicano (pan dulce)Deep Cut85points
- Mézes puszedliDeep Cut85points
- Mi san daoDeep 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.