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
- Bánh quẩy thừngDeep Cut85points
- Bánh tai heoDeep Cut85points
- Bánh tằmDeep Cut85points
- Bánh tiêuDeep Cut85points
- Banitsa (sweet)Deep Cut85points
- Banitsa with applesDeep Cut85points
- BanketDeep Cut85points
- Bankye krakroDeep Cut85points
- Baotou rock-candy mooncakeDeep Cut85points
- Bara brithDeep Cut85points
- Baram tteokDeep Cut85points
- BarátfüleDeep Cut85points
- BarazekDeep Cut85points
- Barberry tartsDeep Cut85points
- BärentatzenDeep Cut85points
- BarmbrackDeep Cut85points
- Barnstaple Fair GingerbreadDeep Cut85points
- BarquetteDeep Cut85points
- BartolilloDeep Cut85points
- BartolosDeep Cut85points
- BaruasaDeep Cut85points
- BarurikDeep Cut85points
- BarzónDeep Cut85points
- Basini de TrentDeep Cut85points
- Basler KrapfenDeep Cut85points
- Basler LäckerliDeep Cut85points
- BasmaDeep Cut85points
- BastognekoekDeep Cut85points
- Bastoncini mandorlati di CoriDeep Cut85points
- Bata mochiDeep Cut85points
- Bath bunDeep Cut85points
- BatyuDeep Cut85points
- BatzekucheDeep Cut85points
- Bavarian cream pieDeep Cut85points
- Baxin d'AlbengaDeep Cut85points
- Bay tatDeep Cut85points
- Bayth elgittaDeep Cut85points
- BchnikhaDeep Cut85points
- Bean pieDeep Cut85points
- Bebe-leivosDeep Cut85points
- Bec de FlersDeep Cut85points
- BeccuteDeep Cut85points
- BechkitoDeep Cut85points
- BeerploatzDeep Cut85points
- BeesheeDeep Cut85points
- BefaniniDeep Cut85points
- BegleDeep Cut85points
- Beh teh sawDeep Cut85points
- BeigliDeep Cut85points
- Beignet au brocciuDeep 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.