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
- ModlitbičkyDeep Cut85points
- MoffleDeep Cut85points
- Mogolla guayatunaDeep Cut85points
- MohnhörnchenDeep Cut85points
- MohnkrapfenDeep Cut85points
- MohnkuchenDeep Cut85points
- MohnmingilanDeep Cut85points
- MohnnudelnDeep Cut85points
- MohnzeltenDeep Cut85points
- Mohura PithaDeep Cut85points
- MojicónDeep Cut85points
- Mollete dulceDeep Cut85points
- Molletes (Guatemala)Deep Cut85points
- Molletes (New Mexico)Deep Cut85points
- Molletes de anísDeep Cut85points
- MömmukökurDeep Cut85points
- MomoyamaDeep Cut85points
- Mon ëd MongardinDeep Cut85points
- Mona de PascuaDeep Cut85points
- MonachinaDeep Cut85points
- MonakaDeep Cut85points
- MondaDeep Cut85points
- MonjàvenaDeep Cut85points
- Moño de danésDeep Cut85points
- MonoharaDeep Cut85points
- Mont kya yoDeep Cut85points
- Mont kyaziDeep Cut85points
- Mont kyo leinDeep Cut85points
- Mont leik pyaDeep Cut85points
- Mont let kaukDeep Cut85points
- Mont lone gyiDeep Cut85points
- Mont lone gyi kyawDeep Cut85points
- Mont lone yay bawDeep Cut85points
- Mont nga kalayDeep Cut85points
- Mont ngayanDeep Cut85points
- Mont pazunDeep Cut85points
- Mont phet htokDeep Cut85points
- Mont wun thaDeep Cut85points
- Monteiro LopesDeep Cut85points
- Montgomery pieDeep Cut85points
- Moonlight cakeDeep Cut85points
- MoorkopDeep Cut85points
- Moorland tartDeep Cut85points
- MoosehuntersDeep Cut85points
- Moravian spice cookieDeep Cut85points
- Moravian sugar cakeDeep Cut85points
- MördegskakorDeep Cut85points
- MorettusDeep Cut85points
- Morgado de PortimãoDeep Cut85points
- Moricette sucréeDeep 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.