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
- TakuaDeep Cut85points
- Tala PithaDeep Cut85points
- TalétaléDeep Cut85points
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- TamaDeep Cut85points
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- Tamal de yucaDeep Cut85points
- Tamal dulceDeep Cut85points
- Tamalitos de cambrayDeep Cut85points
- TamatsubakiDeep Cut85points
- Tambun biscuitDeep Cut85points
- TamriyehDeep Cut85points
- TanasDeep Cut85points
- TanelasDeep Cut85points
- Tang beiziDeep Cut85points
- Tang boboDeep Cut85points
- Tang erduoDeep Cut85points
- Tang huoshaoDeep Cut85points
- Tang jiaoziDeep Cut85points
- Tang pieDeep Cut85points
- Tang sanjiaoDeep Cut85points
- Tang you babaDeep Cut85points
- Tang you gaoDeep Cut85points
- Tang you guoziDeep Cut85points
- Tang youbingDeep Cut85points
- Tangmian zhagaoDeep Cut85points
- Tangshan fengmi matangDeep Cut85points
- TannafakuruDeep Cut85points
- Tanta wawaDeep Cut85points
- TapìtDeep Cut85points
- Tar heel pieDeep Cut85points
- Taralli di Sant'AntonioDeep Cut85points
- Taralli dolciDeep Cut85points
- Taralli morbidiDeep Cut85points
- Taralli neri con vincottoDeep Cut85points
- Taralli sicilianiDeep Cut85points
- Tarallo all'uovoDeep Cut85points
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- TarallucciDeep Cut85points
- Tarallucci al vinoDeep Cut85points
- TarecoDeep Cut85points
- Taro ballsDeep Cut85points
- Taro pastryDeep Cut85points
- Taro pieDeep 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.