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
- Oostendse zeebeschuitjeDeep Cut85points
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- OpekanceDeep Cut85points
- OpilDeep Cut85points
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- OranaisDeep Cut85points
- Oranda senbeiDeep Cut85points
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- OrasniceDeep Cut85points
- Orecchie di AmanDeep Cut85points
- Ořechové lodičkyDeep Cut85points
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- Orechové tyčinkyDeep Cut85points
- Oreillettes montpelliérainesDeep Cut85points
- Oreja de carnavalDeep Cut85points
- Orejas de perroDeep Cut85points
- Orelhas de abadeDeep Cut85points
- OrelletesDeep Cut85points
- OreshkiDeep Cut85points
- OrigliettasDeep Cut85points
- Ormskirk gingerbreadDeep Cut85points
- Osage pieDeep Cut85points
- Osborne biscuitDeep Cut85points
- Osgood pieDeep Cut85points
- OsmaliehDeep Cut85points
- Osmania biscuitDeep Cut85points
- Ossa dei mortiDeep Cut85points
- OsterbrotDeep Cut85points
- OsterfladenDeep Cut85points
- Ostfriesischer TeekuchenDeep Cut85points
- OtapDeep Cut85points
- OttadaDeep Cut85points
- OttijietDeep Cut85points
- OudewijvenkoekDeep Cut85points
- Oudhnine el kadhiDeep Cut85points
- Ouriço de castanhaDeep Cut85points
- Ox-tongue pastryDeep Cut85points
- Oxford CakesDeep Cut85points
- Oxford DumplingsDeep Cut85points
- Oxford John CakesDeep Cut85points
- Oxford TartDeep Cut85points
- ŐznyelvDeep Cut85points
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- Paal poliDeep Cut85points
- PaasbroodDeep Cut85points
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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.