How many flowers does it take to make a pound of saffron?
75,000 blossoms. That means about 225,000 threads plucked one by one, since each flower offers only three stigmas.
How close would your guess have been?
In the game we ask it like this: “How many crocus blossoms are hand-picked for one pound of saffron?”
Type a number — scored exactly the way a round in the game is.
The answer
75,000blossoms



