Secret Spot · Puzzle #21 · Tuesday, October 20
Secret Spot: the answers
Seven prompts, one answer each, and the fewer surfers who said yours, the more it scored. Here are the prompts with the answers we expected to be most common, and the rarest. Play today's Secret Spot, or play this day as practice (never counted).
1. Name a sausage
Each sausage counts once, and regional versions count as their sausage: any chorizo is a chorizo, any bratwurst a bratwurst, any salami a salami, any longganisa a longganisa, any blood sausage (black pudding, morcilla) a blood sausage, and a hot dog of any style is a hot dog.
The answer sheet for this prompt accepts 172 different answers. The obvious picks are Hot dog, Bratwurst and Chorizo: party waves on the sheet, worth 1.0 each. Kielbasa and Andouille look like clever picks, but the sheet marks them as kook moves, worth only 1.5. For a big score you need something like Chả lụa, Boerewors and Goetta, which the sheet rates Locals only, worth up to 8.5. One deep cut: Vietnam's chả lụa is a pork sausage traditionally steamed wrapped in banana leaves.
Most common
- Hot dog
- Bratwurst
- Chorizo
Rarest
- Lincolnshire sausage: Lincolnshire sausages get their flavor mostly from the herb sage. Source: Wikipedia, “Lincolnshire sausage” (CC BY-SA)
- Glamorgan sausage: Wales's Glamorgan sausage is vegetarian, made mainly of cheese, leeks and breadcrumbs. Source: Wikipedia, “Glamorgan sausage” (CC BY-SA)
- Landjäger: Landjäger, a semidried sausage from the Alps, is a popular snack on hikes. Source: Wikipedia, “Landjäger” (CC BY-SA)
Before the crowd came in: the answers we expected to be most and least common, from how well known each one is.
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