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
- Global dimmingDeep Cut85points
- Grassland lossDeep Cut85points
- Ground-level ozoneDeep Cut85points
- Hazardous waste exportDeep Cut85points
- Hedgerow lossDeep Cut85points
- Human-wildlife conflictDeep Cut85points
- Interplanetary contaminationDeep Cut85points
- Jellyfish bloomsDeep Cut85points
- Kelp forest declineDeep Cut85points
- Land subsidenceDeep Cut85points
- Land-use changeDeep Cut85points
- Legacy pollutionDeep Cut85points
- Lithium miningDeep Cut85points
- Locust swarmsDeep Cut85points
- Loss of genetic diversityDeep Cut85points
- Mangrove lossDeep Cut85points
- Marine animal entanglementDeep Cut85points
- Mining wasteDeep Cut85points
- MonocultureDeep Cut85points
- NanopollutionDeep Cut85points
- Ocean deoxygenationDeep Cut85points
- Ocean stratificationDeep Cut85points
- Odor pollutionDeep Cut85points
- Off-road vehicle damageDeep Cut85points
- Open defecationDeep Cut85points
- Orphan wellsDeep Cut85points
- Over-irrigationDeep Cut85points
- OvercultivationDeep Cut85points
- OverexploitationDeep Cut85points
- OvertourismDeep Cut85points
- PCB pollutionDeep Cut85points
- Peat firesDeep Cut85points
- Peatland lossDeep Cut85points
- Persistent organic pollutantsDeep Cut85points
- Pharmaceutical pollutionDeep Cut85points
- QuarryingDeep Cut85points
- RadonDeep Cut85points
- River dammingDeep Cut85points
- Road salt pollutionDeep Cut85points
- SalinizationDeep Cut85points
- Saltwater intrusionDeep Cut85points
- Sand miningDeep Cut85points
- Sargassum influxDeep Cut85points
- Seagrass lossDeep Cut85points
- Season creepDeep Cut85points
- Sediment pollutionDeep Cut85points
- Selenium pollutionDeep Cut85points
- Shark cullingDeep Cut85points
- Ship pollutionDeep Cut85points
- Ship strikesDeep 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.