Krillion Recorded answers
6,431 recorded answers
How to approach it
Treat the task as a timed recall sprint, not a hunt for one perfect label. Spend a minute noting every genre term you have ever seen attached to a record, from the broadest umbrella phrases down to the strangest compound you can picture, and hold back nothing at this stage. Prune afterwards, keeping only entries you can imagine sitting in the platform's catalogue. The productive route is combinatorial: take one style stem you trust and attach a region, a period, a format or an instrument, then judge which pairings read like genuine tags. Do not chase a brilliant rarity. The field is so wide and the scoring so flat that your first instinct carries as much weight as your twentieth guess, so move fast.
Get a hint
Start with scale: the catalogue holds thousands of tags, so the skill being tested is recall under time pressure. Ask how many genre terms you could list in a minute without repeating yourself.
A little more
Study how most tags are built: a style root fused with a place, a decade, a tempo figure, a technology or an instrument. Once that pattern is visible, one remembered term turns into a dozen variants.
One step further
Then push toward the far edge of the list: hyphenated micro-labels, single descriptors that barely register as genres, and tags lifted wholesale from regional scenes on other continents.
Reveal answers 6,431
- stomp and hollerOne in a Krillion100points
- 2-stepDeep Cut85points
- 21st century classicalDeep Cut85points
- 3 stepDeep Cut85points
- 432hzDeep Cut85points
- 48gDeep Cut85points
- 528hzDeep Cut85points
- 5th wave emoDeep Cut85points
- 8DDeep Cut85points
- aarhus indieDeep Cut85points
- aberdeen indieDeep Cut85points
- abstractDeep Cut85points
- abstract beatsDeep Cut85points
- abstract hip hopDeep Cut85points
- abstract idmDeep Cut85points
- abstractroDeep Cut85points
- accordeonDeep Cut85points
- accordionDeep Cut85points
- accordion bandDeep Cut85points
- acid idmDeep Cut85points
- acid technoDeep Cut85points
- acid tranceDeep Cut85points
- acidcoreDeep Cut85points
- acousmaticDeep Cut85points
- acoustic chillDeep Cut85points
- acoustic countryDeep Cut85points
- acoustic coverDeep Cut85points
- acoustic guitar coverDeep Cut85points
- acoustic opmDeep Cut85points
- acoustic punkDeep Cut85points
- action rockDeep Cut85points
- adelaide indieDeep Cut85points
- adelaide punkDeep Cut85points
- adivasi popDeep Cut85points
- adoracaoDeep Cut85points
- adoracionDeep Cut85points
- adoracion pentecostalDeep Cut85points
- adult standardsDeep Cut85points
- adventistaDeep Cut85points
- aesthetic rapDeep Cut85points
- afghan popDeep Cut85points
- afghan rapDeep Cut85points
- afghan traditionalDeep Cut85points
- african electronicDeep Cut85points
- african experimentalDeep Cut85points
- african gospelDeep Cut85points
- african metalDeep Cut85points
- african percussionDeep Cut85points
- african reggaeDeep Cut85points
- african rockDeep Cut85points
Why these answers count
The numbers tell a flattening story. Out of 6,431 recorded answers, 6,392 scored, and 5,962 of those sat on the same 85 points, one broad band that swallowed everything from bare one-word abstractions such as abstract to hyper-local hyphenates such as adelaide indie and technical oddities such as 8D and 432hz. Only 429 fell to 60, presumably entries the grader read as a weaker fit: a near miss, a variant spelling, or something it would not treat as a genre tag. Exactly one response, stomp and holler, reached 100. That solitary case carries the lesson. Normally the rarest legitimate pick pays best, since fewer players share the pool, but here the catalogue is so vast that rarity stopped carrying information. Obscurity bought nothing: accordion earned the same 85 as afro house angolano. Depth of recall was rewarded only up to the point of being right, and not a single point further.