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
- Schiaccia campiglieseDeep Cut85points
- Schiaccia pasquale con uccelliniDeep Cut85points
- Schiaccia pizzicata di MontianoDeep Cut85points
- Schiacciata all'uvaDeep Cut85points
- Schiacciata di PasquaDeep Cut85points
- SchizzottoDeep Cut85points
- Schlaatemer RickliDeep Cut85points
- Schlesischer HochzeitskuchenDeep Cut85points
- Schlesischer MohnstriezelDeep Cut85points
- Schlesischer PflaumenkuchenDeep Cut85points
- SchlitzküchlaDeep Cut85points
- SchlorzifladenDeep Cut85points
- SchmalzkuchenDeep Cut85points
- SchmandkuchenDeep Cut85points
- SchmierkuchenDeep Cut85points
- SchneckenDeep Cut85points
- SchneeballDeep Cut85points
- Schnitz pieDeep Cut85points
- SchoggiweggliDeep Cut85points
- Schömberger 12 Apostel BombenDeep Cut85points
- SchulbrezelDeep Cut85points
- Schwatze TaatDeep Cut85points
- Schweidnitzer BolkobissenDeep Cut85points
- Schweidnitzer KuchenDeep Cut85points
- SchwemmertjesDeep Cut85points
- Schwenkfelder cakeDeep Cut85points
- SciauniDeep Cut85points
- Sciuette di Varese LigureDeep Cut85points
- Scotch cakesDeep Cut85points
- ScriblitaDeep Cut85points
- ScroccafusiDeep Cut85points
- ScufflesDeep Cut85points
- ScursuneraDeep Cut85points
- SdobaDeep Cut85points
- SeadasDeep Cut85points
- ŠećerlemeDeep Cut85points
- Sedgemoor Easter biscuitDeep Cut85points
- Seedai (sweet)Deep Cut85points
- SeelenspitzenDeep Cut85points
- Seijo kankidanDeep Cut85points
- Şekerli peynir böreğiDeep Cut85points
- ŞekerpareDeep Cut85points
- Seki no toDeep Cut85points
- Selkirk bannockDeep Cut85points
- SemitaDeep Cut85points
- Semita altaDeep Cut85points
- Semita de arrozDeep Cut85points
- Semita pelonaDeep Cut85points
- Semitas de yemaDeep Cut85points
- SemlaDeep 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.