Krillion Recorded answers
245 recorded answers
How to approach it
Work outward from the plainest reading of the prompt. Begin with the everyday problems most people would say first, because the scoring rewards volume as much as novelty: even familiar entries count, and a long list beats one clever pick. Then move through the media one at a time, the air, fresh water, the sea, the soil, the built environment, and ask what damages each. After that, switch from substances to processes: slow changes in chemistry, climate, hydrology and living communities. Finish with the specialist's shelf: industrial by-products, trace contaminants, habitat-specific disruptions and cross-border waste. Rarity is what separates the upper tier, so keep going past the obvious until the list runs dry, and write each answer as a short noun phrase.
Get a hint
Start with the medium that carries the harm: what we breathe, what we drink, what grows our food, and the living communities that hold those systems together.
A little more
Then push toward processes rather than substances: shifts in temperature, chemistry, water levels or species composition that unfold over decades and resist easy reversal.
One step further
Finally, go narrow and technical, the way a specialist would: contamination at trace concentrations, waste from a single industry, or damage confined to one kind of habitat.
Reveal answers 245
- Nurdle pollutionOne in a Krillion100points
- Acid mine drainageDeep Cut85points
- Ammonia pollutionDeep Cut85points
- AMOC weakeningDeep Cut85points
- Amphibian declineDeep Cut85points
- Antimicrobial resistance in the environmentDeep Cut85points
- Aquaculture pollutionDeep Cut85points
- Arctic amplificationDeep Cut85points
- Arsenic contaminationDeep Cut85points
- Aviation emissionsDeep Cut85points
- Ballast water dischargeDeep Cut85points
- Bark beetle infestationDeep Cut85points
- BioaccumulationDeep Cut85points
- Biomass burningDeep Cut85points
- Black carbonDeep Cut85points
- Blast fishingDeep Cut85points
- BrownfieldsDeep Cut85points
- Bushmeat huntingDeep Cut85points
- Cadmium pollutionDeep Cut85points
- Carbon sink lossDeep Cut85points
- Chromium contaminationDeep Cut85points
- Coal ashDeep Cut85points
- Coal seam firesDeep Cut85points
- Coastal squeezeDeep Cut85points
- Construction wasteDeep Cut85points
- Contaminants of emerging concernDeep Cut85points
- Coral miningDeep Cut85points
- Crown-of-thorns starfish outbreaksDeep Cut85points
- Cyanide fishingDeep Cut85points
- Desalination brineDeep Cut85points
- Destructive fishingDeep Cut85points
- DioxinsDeep Cut85points
- Dolphin drive huntingDeep Cut85points
- DredgingDeep Cut85points
- Drift nettingDeep Cut85points
- Ecosystem collapseDeep Cut85points
- Electromagnetic pollutionDeep Cut85points
- Endocrine disruptorsDeep Cut85points
- Environmental racismDeep Cut85points
- FatbergsDeep Cut85points
- Fireworks pollutionDeep Cut85points
- Fish killsDeep Cut85points
- Fluoride contaminationDeep Cut85points
- Footpath erosionDeep Cut85points
- Forest degradationDeep Cut85points
- Freshwater acidificationDeep Cut85points
- Gas flaringDeep Cut85points
- Genetic pollutionDeep Cut85points
- Ghost netsDeep Cut85points
- GillnettingDeep Cut85points
Why these answers count
The scoring is a popularity curve turned upside down. Familiar, broad entries, the ones a hundred players type at once, settle near the bottom of the band, while specificity pulls an answer upward. That is why a single industrial by-product named precisely, nurdle pollution, sat alone at 100 points, and why the long 85-point shelf is crowded with answers that a general reader would not reach in the first minute: acid mine drainage, ammonia pollution, fatbergs, ghost nets. These are still recognisable problems, not obscure jargon; they simply require one extra step of recall. Answers that stopped at the level of a whole medium or a general trend scored lower because hundreds of players found them, so the reveal had already spent their novelty. The practical lesson is that the grader rewards a narrow label on a real phenomenon far more than a sweeping one, and that a specific mechanism or waste stream is worth more than the category it belongs to.