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
- Michetta di DolceacquaDeep Cut85points
- MicóoulaDeep Cut85points
- Mielinis pyragasDeep Cut85points
- MiguelitosDeep Cut85points
- MikadoDeep Cut85points
- Mikado biscuitDeep Cut85points
- Milagros del santoDeep Cut85points
- MilanostångDeep Cut85points
- MilitärbiscuitDeep Cut85points
- Milk arrowroot biscuitDeep Cut85points
- Milk pieDeep Cut85points
- Milk skin mooncakeDeep Cut85points
- Milk-cream strudelDeep Cut85points
- Millet biscuitDeep Cut85points
- Million PieDeep Cut85points
- Millionaire pieDeep Cut85points
- MilopitaDeep Cut85points
- MinasaDeep Cut85points
- MiniatensiDeep Cut85points
- Minna di virginiDeep Cut85points
- Minobu manjuDeep Cut85points
- Mint pryanikDeep Cut85points
- Miodowe pierniczki z PrzemkowaDeep Cut85points
- Miquette de FrontignanDeep Cut85points
- MirabellenkuchenDeep Cut85points
- MirjaiDeep Cut85points
- Mirliton de RouenDeep Cut85points
- MirokuishiDeep Cut85points
- Miso manjuDeep Cut85points
- MisroDeep Cut85points
- MistocchinaDeep Cut85points
- MitaiDeep Cut85points
- Mitarashi dangoDeep Cut85points
- Mitha puriDeep Cut85points
- Mithi kokiDeep Cut85points
- Mithi puriDeep Cut85points
- Mitho loloDeep Cut85points
- Mitja llunaDeep Cut85points
- Mito no umeDeep Cut85points
- MiyanparDeep Cut85points
- MkhabezDeep Cut85points
- MkharekDeep Cut85points
- MkhedetteDeep Cut85points
- MlabesDeep Cut85points
- Mlechna banitsaDeep Cut85points
- Młodzowy kuch z kruszonkąDeep Cut85points
- Mocha-ppangDeep Cut85points
- MocheDeep Cut85points
- Mochi-ppangDeep Cut85points
- Mock cherry 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.