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
- Sol (pan dulce)Deep Cut85points
- SolozhenykDeep Cut85points
- SolskinnsbolleDeep Cut85points
- SomivikiDeep Cut85points
- SongpyeonDeep Cut85points
- Songzi huangqian gaoDeep Cut85points
- Songzi suDeep Cut85points
- SonhoDeep Cut85points
- Sonho de abóboraDeep Cut85points
- SonkerDeep Cut85points
- SonrisasDeep Cut85points
- Sopaipilla potosinaDeep Cut85points
- Sopaipillas de piñónDeep Cut85points
- Sopapilla cheesecakeDeep Cut85points
- SopladosDeep Cut85points
- Sorghum pieDeep Cut85points
- SorraDeep Cut85points
- Sorrel pieDeep Cut85points
- Sos pinosDeep Cut85points
- Sospiri di OzieriDeep Cut85points
- SoßenkuchenDeep Cut85points
- SøsterkakeDeep Cut85points
- Soul cakeDeep Cut85points
- Sour orange pieDeep Cut85points
- Southwold bunsDeep Cut85points
- SpagatkrapfenDeep Cut85points
- Spakenburgs hartDeep Cut85points
- SpandauerDeep Cut85points
- Spanisch BrötliDeep Cut85points
- Spanish breadDeep Cut85points
- SpantôleDeep Cut85points
- Spartak cakeDeep Cut85points
- SpecierDeep Cut85points
- SpeltkoekDeep Cut85points
- Sperone di galloDeep Cut85points
- SpesíurDeep Cut85points
- Spiced bunDeep Cut85points
- Spiced waferDeep Cut85points
- SpignoliDeep Cut85points
- Spina santaDeep Cut85points
- SpiraDeep Cut85points
- SpitzkuchenDeep Cut85points
- Splitska tortaDeep Cut85points
- SplitterbrötchenDeep Cut85points
- SpongadaDeep Cut85points
- SpongardaDeep Cut85points
- SpongataDeep Cut85points
- SporcamussDeep Cut85points
- SportellaDeep Cut85points
- SportinaDeep 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.