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
- irish experimental electronicDeep Cut85points
- irish fiddleDeep Cut85points
- irish fluteDeep Cut85points
- irish gaelic folkDeep Cut85points
- irish hardcoreDeep Cut85points
- irish hip hopDeep Cut85points
- irish indieDeep Cut85points
- irish indie rockDeep Cut85points
- irish metalDeep Cut85points
- irish modern jazzDeep Cut85points
- irish neo-traditionalDeep Cut85points
- irish popDeep Cut85points
- irish post-punkDeep Cut85points
- irish pub songDeep Cut85points
- irish punkDeep Cut85points
- irish rebel songDeep Cut85points
- irish rockDeep Cut85points
- irish singer-songwriterDeep Cut85points
- irish technoDeep Cut85points
- irish trapDeep Cut85points
- irish underground rapDeep Cut85points
- iskelmaDeep Cut85points
- islamic recitationDeep Cut85points
- isle of man indieDeep Cut85points
- isle of wight indieDeep Cut85points
- israeli classicalDeep Cut85points
- israeli classical pianoDeep Cut85points
- israeli folkDeep Cut85points
- israeli hip hopDeep Cut85points
- israeli indieDeep Cut85points
- israeli jazzDeep Cut85points
- israeli mediterraneanDeep Cut85points
- israeli metalDeep Cut85points
- israeli popDeep Cut85points
- israeli punkDeep Cut85points
- israeli rockDeep Cut85points
- israeli singer-songwriterDeep Cut85points
- israeli technoDeep Cut85points
- israeli traditionalDeep Cut85points
- israeli trapDeep Cut85points
- israelite hip hopDeep Cut85points
- italian adult popDeep Cut85points
- italian alternativeDeep Cut85points
- italian baritoneDeep Cut85points
- italian baroqueDeep Cut85points
- italian baroque ensembleDeep Cut85points
- italian bassDeep Cut85points
- italian black metalDeep Cut85points
- italian bluesDeep Cut85points
- italian choirDeep 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.