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
- Sir Robert Walpole's DumplingsDeep Cut85points
- SirapskakaDeep Cut85points
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- SirupsnipperDeep Cut85points
- ŠiškrliDeep Cut85points
- SitabhogDeep Cut85points
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- SkalichkiDeep Cut85points
- SkandranietteDeep Cut85points
- SklandrausisDeep Cut85points
- Škofja Loka honey breadsDeep Cut85points
- Škofjeloški kruhekDeep Cut85points
- SkolebrødDeep Cut85points
- SkruzdėlynasDeep Cut85points
- ŠkubánkyDeep Cut85points
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- Śląskie kołaczyki wykwintneDeep Cut85points
- SlastyonyDeep Cut85points
- Slatka pogačaDeep Cut85points
- Slatki đevrekDeep Cut85points
- Sledmere GingerbreadDeep Cut85points
- SliletDeep Cut85points
- ŚliszkiDeep Cut85points
- Slíže s makomDeep Cut85points
- ŠljivopitaDeep Cut85points
- SlofDeep Cut85points
- SloykaDeep Cut85points
- Sly CakeDeep Cut85points
- SmalkmaizīteDeep Cut85points
- Smetannik bunDeep Cut85points
- SmørkranseDeep Cut85points
- SmultringDeep Cut85points
- SmurfentaartDeep Cut85points
- Snow skin mooncakeDeep Cut85points
- Soba boroDeep Cut85points
- Soba manjuDeep Cut85points
- SobaboroDeep Cut85points
- ŞöbiyetDeep Cut85points
- Soboro-ppangDeep Cut85points
- SochnikiDeep Cut85points
- SockerbulleDeep Cut85points
- SockerkringlaDeep Cut85points
- SocochonesDeep Cut85points
- SocorrocoDeep 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.