The answers, by rarity
| Tier | Points | Banked answers |
|---|---|---|
| One in a Noillirk | 100 | Mapo Tofu, Xiaolongbao |
| Deep Cut | 85 | Dan Dan Noodles, Peking Duck |
| Rare | 60 | Char Siu, Hot Pot |
| Schooler | 30 | Spring Rolls, Sweet and Sour Pork |
| Too Clever | 15 | Kung Pao Chicken |
| Plankton | 10 | Fried Rice, Chow Mein |
How the crowd plays it
The crowd's reflex here is "Fried Rice" — correct, instant, and worth a Plankton 10. The second reflex, "Kung Pao Chicken", belongs to the Too Clever tier: it sounds like a deep cut and lands like a cliché, because every confident player reaches for it in the same second.
Swim past the school and the ladder thins out fast: "Dan Dan Noodles" earns a Deep Cut 85, the mark of a player who reads second pages. The trench floor of this prompt is "Mapo Tofu" — one banked answer, 100 points, no company.
Playing this prompt backwards
When this question surfaces in a dive, your 25 seconds are best spent in reverse: first, name the Plankton answer silently and let it go; second, refuse the Too Clever answer unless the clock is dying; third, search your second page — the runner-up, the older one, the one from the smaller place. In food, that means remembering that read the recipe backwards: not the finished dish, but the ingredient, the technique, the region it escaped from. A dish's mirror image is its supply chain, and that is where the rare answers hide.
This prompt appears in the daily rotation, in Unlimited mode and — drilled on its own category — in the Food pack. Its full answer bank is also published whenever its day closes, in the archive.