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
- ShipbreakingDeep Cut85points
- Shrinking lakesDeep Cut85points
- Snow cover lossDeep Cut85points
- Soil acidificationDeep Cut85points
- Soil compactionDeep Cut85points
- Soil sealingDeep Cut85points
- Southeast Asian hazeDeep Cut85points
- Species range shiftsDeep Cut85points
- Stubble burningDeep Cut85points
- Sulfur dioxide pollutionDeep Cut85points
- Sunscreen coral damageDeep Cut85points
- Tar sandsDeep Cut85points
- Tire wasteDeep Cut85points
- Tire wear pollutionDeep Cut85points
- Tree diseaseDeep Cut85points
- Underwater noise pollutionDeep Cut85points
- Unexploded ordnanceDeep Cut85points
- Urban stream syndromeDeep Cut85points
- Visual pollutionDeep Cut85points
- Volatile organic compoundsDeep Cut85points
- War pollutionDeep Cut85points
- Waste oilDeep Cut85points
- Water stagnationDeep Cut85points
- WaterloggingDeep Cut85points
- Wildlife diseaseDeep Cut85points
- Woody plant encroachmentDeep Cut85points
- Agricultural runoffRare60points
- Asbestos contaminationRare60points
- Bird population declineRare60points
- Bottom trawlingRare60points
- BycatchRare60points
- Carbon monoxide pollutionRare60points
- Chemical pollutionRare60points
- Chemical spillsRare60points
- Clear-cuttingRare60points
- Climate migrationRare60points
- Coastal erosionRare60points
- Cryptocurrency mining energy useRare60points
- Data center water and energy useRare60points
- Dead zonesRare60points
- Deep-sea miningRare60points
- Electronic wasteRare60points
- Energy wasteRare60points
- Environmental degradationRare60points
- EutrophicationRare60points
- Factory farmingRare60points
- Fast fashionRare60points
- Food wasteRare60points
- Great Pacific Garbage PatchRare60points
- Groundwater depletionRare60points
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.