Krillion Recorded answers
6,432 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 6,432
- ragtimeRare60points
- raiRare60points
- rancheraRare60points
- rap metalRare60points
- rap rockRare60points
- raveRare60points
- reggae popRare60points
- reggae rockRare60points
- renaissanceRare60points
- riot grrrlRare60points
- rock en espanolRare60points
- rockabillyRare60points
- rocksteadyRare60points
- roots rockRare60points
- rumbaRare60points
- sad rapRare60points
- salsaRare60points
- sambaRare60points
- schlagerRare60points
- screamoRare60points
- shantyRare60points
- shoegazeRare60points
- show tunesRare60points
- singer-songwriterRare60points
- skaRare60points
- ska punkRare60points
- skate punkRare60points
- skiffleRare60points
- slowed and reverbRare60points
- smooth jazzRare60points
- socaRare60points
- soft popRare60points
- soft rockRare60points
- soundtrackRare60points
- southern hip hopRare60points
- southern rockRare60points
- space rockRare60points
- spanish rockRare60points
- speed metalRare60points
- spiritualsRare60points
- spoken wordRare60points
- stoner rockRare60points
- string quartetRare60points
- sufiRare60points
- surf musicRare60points
- surf rockRare60points
- swingRare60points
- symphonic metalRare60points
- synthpopRare60points
- synthwaveRare60points
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.