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
- WhalingRare60points
- Acid rainSchooler30points
- Bee declineSchooler30points
- Biodiversity lossSchooler30points
- Coral bleachingSchooler30points
- DesertificationSchooler30points
- DroughtSchooler30points
- ExtinctionSchooler30points
- FrackingSchooler30points
- Glacier retreatSchooler30points
- Greenhouse effectSchooler30points
- Greenhouse gas emissionsSchooler30points
- Habitat destructionSchooler30points
- Industrial pollutionSchooler30points
- Invasive speciesSchooler30points
- Land pollutionSchooler30points
- LandfillsSchooler30points
- Light pollutionSchooler30points
- LitteringSchooler30points
- Marine pollutionSchooler30points
- Melting ice capsSchooler30points
- MicroplasticsSchooler30points
- Noise pollutionSchooler30points
- Nuclear wasteSchooler30points
- Ocean acidificationSchooler30points
- Oil spillsSchooler30points
- OverfishingSchooler30points
- OverpopulationSchooler30points
- Ozone depletionSchooler30points
- PoachingSchooler30points
- Sea level riseSchooler30points
- SmogSchooler30points
- Soil erosionSchooler30points
- Urban sprawlSchooler30points
- Vehicle emissionsSchooler30points
- WasteSchooler30points
- Water scarcitySchooler30points
- WildfiresSchooler30points
- Air pollutionPlankton10points
- Climate changePlankton10points
- DeforestationPlankton10points
- Global warmingPlankton10points
- Plastic pollutionPlankton10points
- PollutionPlankton10points
- Water pollutionPlankton10points
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.