Food · Puzzle #11 · Saturday, October 10
Food: the board
Eight items, eight categories, one place each. Here is the board with every figure and where it comes from, and the best way to place them. Play today's Food.
The categories
- Carbs: 1 pt per 6 g of carbs per 100 g
- Fat: 1 pt per 4 g of fat per 100 g
- Calorie bomb: 1 pt per 50 calories per 100 g
- Calcium: 1 pt per 20 mg of calcium per 100 g
- Protein: 1 pt per 2.5 g of protein per 100 g
- Watery: 1 pt per 10% water
- Most looked-up: 1 pt per 60,000 Wikipedia views in 2025
- Sugar rush: 1 pt per 3 g of sugar per 100 g
The best board
- Ground beef in Protein: has 26 g of protein per 100 g (10.0)
- Maple syrup in Carbs: has 67 g of carbohydrate per 100 g (10.0)
- Quinoa in Most looked-up: its Wikipedia article was read 797,188 times in 2025 (10.0)
- Cheddar in Calcium: has 710 mg of calcium per 100 g (10.0)
- Olive oil in Calorie bomb: has 884 calories per 100 g (10.0)
- Hard candy in Sugar rush: has 63 g of sugar per 100 g (10.0)
- Apricot in Watery: is 86% water (8.6)
- Heavy cream in Fat: has 36 g of fat per 100 g (9.0)
The most this board could score: 77.6 of 80.
The lineup, figure by figure
Ground beef
Minced beef for burgers
Photo: No machine-readable author provided. Rainer Zenz assumed (based on copyright claims)., CC BY-SA 3.0 - Carbs
- has 0 g of carbohydrate per 100 g (0.0) Source: USDA FoodData Central
- Fat
- has 18 g of fat per 100 g (4.4) Source: USDA FoodData Central
- Calorie bomb
- has 270 calories per 100 g (5.4) Source: USDA FoodData Central
- Calcium
- has 24 mg of calcium per 100 g (1.2) Source: USDA FoodData Central
- Protein
- has 26 g of protein per 100 g (10.0) Source: USDA FoodData Central
- Watery
- is 56% water (5.6) Source: USDA FoodData Central
- Most looked-up
- its Wikipedia article was read 87,577 times in 2025 (1.5) Source: Wikimedia page views
- Sugar rush
- has 0 g of sugar per 100 g (0.0) Source: USDA FoodData Central
Maple syrup
Syrup boiled down from sap
Photo: User:Miguel Andrade, Public domain - Carbs
- has 67 g of carbohydrate per 100 g (10.0) Source: USDA FoodData Central
- Fat
- has 0.06 g of fat per 100 g (0.0) Source: USDA FoodData Central
- Calorie bomb
- has 260 calories per 100 g (5.2) Source: USDA FoodData Central
- Calcium
- has 102 mg of calcium per 100 g (5.1) Source: USDA FoodData Central
- Protein
- has 0.04 g of protein per 100 g (0.0) Source: USDA FoodData Central
- Watery
- is 32% water (3.2) Source: USDA FoodData Central
- Most looked-up
- its Wikipedia article was read 381,606 times in 2025 (6.4) Source: Wikimedia page views
- Sugar rush
- has 60 g of sugar per 100 g (10.0) Source: USDA FoodData Central
Quinoa
Seed cooked like a grain
Photo: HaJunkiyada, CC BY-SA 4.0 - Carbs
- has 21 g of carbohydrate per 100 g (3.6) Source: USDA FoodData Central
- Fat
- has 1.9 g of fat per 100 g (0.5) Source: USDA FoodData Central
- Calorie bomb
- has 120 calories per 100 g (2.4) Source: USDA FoodData Central
- Calcium
- has 17 mg of calcium per 100 g (0.9) Source: USDA FoodData Central
- Protein
- has 4.4 g of protein per 100 g (1.8) Source: USDA FoodData Central
- Watery
- is 72% water (7.2) Source: USDA FoodData Central
- Most looked-up
- its Wikipedia article was read 797,188 times in 2025 (10.0) Source: Wikimedia page views
- Sugar rush
- has 0.87 g of sugar per 100 g (0.3) Source: USDA FoodData Central
Cheddar
Firm cheese, aged sharp or mild
Photo: J.P.Lon, CC BY-SA 3.0 - Carbs
- has 3.4 g of carbohydrate per 100 g (0.6) Source: USDA FoodData Central
- Fat
- has 33 g of fat per 100 g (8.3) Source: USDA FoodData Central
- Calorie bomb
- has 403 calories per 100 g (8.1) Source: USDA FoodData Central
- Calcium
- has 710 mg of calcium per 100 g (10.0) Source: USDA FoodData Central
- Protein
- has 23 g of protein per 100 g (9.1) Source: USDA FoodData Central
- Watery
- is 37% water (3.7) Source: USDA FoodData Central
- Most looked-up
- its Wikipedia article was read 300,994 times in 2025 (5.0) Source: Wikimedia page views
- Sugar rush
- has 0.48 g of sugar per 100 g (0.2) Source: USDA FoodData Central
Olive oil
Oil pressed from olives
Photo: Poyraz 72, CC BY-SA 4.0 - Carbs
- has 0 g of carbohydrate per 100 g (0.0) Source: USDA FoodData Central
- Fat
- has 100 g of fat per 100 g (10.0) Source: USDA FoodData Central
- Calorie bomb
- has 884 calories per 100 g (10.0) Source: USDA FoodData Central
- Calcium
- has 1 mg of calcium per 100 g (0.1) Source: USDA FoodData Central
- Protein
- has 0 g of protein per 100 g (0.0) Source: USDA FoodData Central
- Watery
- is 0% water (0.0) Source: USDA FoodData Central
- Most looked-up
- its Wikipedia article was read 378,768 times in 2025 (6.3) Source: Wikimedia page views
- Sugar rush
- has 0 g of sugar per 100 g (0.0) Source: USDA FoodData Central
Hard candy
Lollipops and lozenges you suck on
Photo: Adam Zivner, CC BY-SA 3.0 - Carbs
- has 98 g of carbohydrate per 100 g (10.0) Source: USDA FoodData Central
- Fat
- has 0.2 g of fat per 100 g (0.1) Source: USDA FoodData Central
- Calorie bomb
- has 394 calories per 100 g (7.9) Source: USDA FoodData Central
- Calcium
- has 3 mg of calcium per 100 g (0.2) Source: USDA FoodData Central
- Protein
- has 0 g of protein per 100 g (0.0) Source: USDA FoodData Central
- Watery
- is 1.3% water (0.1) Source: USDA FoodData Central
- Most looked-up
- its Wikipedia article was read 65,864 times in 2025 (1.1) Source: Wikimedia page views
- Sugar rush
- has 63 g of sugar per 100 g (10.0) Source: USDA FoodData Central
Apricot
Velvety orange stone fruit
Photo: Fir0002, GFDL 1.2 - Carbs
- has 11 g of carbohydrate per 100 g (1.9) Source: USDA FoodData Central
- Fat
- has 0.39 g of fat per 100 g (0.1) Source: USDA FoodData Central
- Calorie bomb
- has 48 calories per 100 g (1.0) Source: USDA FoodData Central
- Calcium
- has 13 mg of calcium per 100 g (0.7) Source: USDA FoodData Central
- Protein
- has 1.4 g of protein per 100 g (0.6) Source: USDA FoodData Central
- Watery
- is 86% water (8.6) Source: USDA FoodData Central
- Most looked-up
- its Wikipedia article was read 275,469 times in 2025 (4.6) Source: Wikimedia page views
- Sugar rush
- has 9.2 g of sugar per 100 g (3.1) Source: USDA FoodData Central
Heavy cream
The thick cream you whip
Photo: jeffreyw, CC BY 2.0 - Carbs
- has 2.8 g of carbohydrate per 100 g (0.5) Source: USDA FoodData Central
- Fat
- has 36 g of fat per 100 g (9.0) Source: USDA FoodData Central
- Calorie bomb
- has 340 calories per 100 g (6.8) Source: USDA FoodData Central
- Calcium
- has 66 mg of calcium per 100 g (3.3) Source: USDA FoodData Central
- Protein
- has 2.8 g of protein per 100 g (1.1) Source: USDA FoodData Central
- Watery
- is 58% water (5.8) Source: USDA FoodData Central
- Most looked-up
- its Wikipedia article was read 190,978 times in 2025 (3.2) Source: Wikimedia page views
- Sugar rush
- has 2.9 g of sugar per 100 g (1.0) Source: USDA FoodData Central
