Petal to the Metal
Gathering Green
Dramatic Conversions
Fiji Faithful
Game Times
Local Larvae
100

The seeds of this plant make a delicious snack - but if you’ve planted a field of them to take advantage of their hyperaccumulation of heavy metals, you need to carefully dispose of the whole plant at the end of the growing season, rather than using it for food or compost.

What are sunflowers?

100

This is the basic Green land in Magic the Gathering.

What is “Forest”?

100

Ounces per Pound

What is 16?

100

This Survivor 50 contestant is considered the first true ‘Hero’ character in the show’s history. Originally appearing on Survivor the Australian Outback he would parlay his southern charm into numerous guest roles, as well as hosting a reality TV show of his own in Top Shot.

Who is Colby Donaldson?

100

Can you get all five letters? This word guessing game gives you hints like yellow for the right letter but wrong place, and green for the right letter in the right place.

What is Wordle?

100

This famous orange and black migrating butterfly’s host plant is milkweed.

What is the monarch butterfly?

200

Read it and weep! This tree typically grows near water sources because it needs so much water. When planted near a contaminated water source, though, it will accumulate heavy metals from the water in its roots, trunk, and branches, essentially helping to clean the water and sequester the pollutants.

What are willows?

200

This classic 1/1 Green Elf Druid creature in Magic the Gathering costs one green mana and can be tapped for one green mana.

What is “Llanowar Elves”?

200

Cups per Gallon

What is 16?

200

This Survivor 50 contestant has now competed on an astonishing six seasons of Survivor, making it to the final six or higher in all but one completed season she was on based almost entirely on her social and strategic gameplay. She's commonly referred to as the best player to never win.

Who is Cirie Fields?

200

Across here and down there. This classic is the oldest continuous game the NYT has produced, spawning spinoffs like the Mini and the Midi.

What is The Crossword?

200

This orange and black butterfly is easily mistaken for the monarch butterfly, but it is its own species. Its favorite host plants are the willow family.

What is the viceroy butterfly?

300

This tasty mushroom has enzymes that can break down polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons in crude oil. Because of this, they may be used to help clean up oil spills in the future.

What are oyster mushrooms?

300

This Green instant card in Magic the Gathering gives target creature +3/+3 until the end of the turn.

What is “Giant Growth”?

300

Millimeters per Kilometer

What is 10,000,000?

300

This Survivor 50 contestant is touted as one of the most physically gifted to ever play the game. He’s tied for the most individual immunity wins in a single season with five, while also having the

Who is Oscar “Ozzy” Lusth

300

Plenty of misdirects ahead! This game gives you sixteen items to filter into four categories, each assigned a color coded difficulty level from easy to hard.

What is Connections?

300

This stunning black and yellow or black and blue butterfly will often lay its eggs on plants related to carrots, like Queen Anne’s lace, parsnips, and parsley. A big patch of dill may also attract these beauties to your yard!

What is the black swallowtail butterfly?

400

The name of this tree sounds like “popular.” Aspens and cottonwoods are in the same genus, and all make effective phytoremediators.

What is poplar?

400

This planeswalker appears on several Green and Green-Black Magic the Gathering cards, with epithets like “Apex Predator,” “Caller of Beasts,” and “Cursed Huntsman.”

What is Garruk?

400

Feet per Mile

What is 5,280?

400

This Survivor 50 contestant is perhaps best known for his eccentric personality, having given himself the moniker of ‘The Dragon Slayer’. Always insisting that he is an honorable man, his consistent downfall has been his inability to own up to the underhanded tactics he's employed.

Who is Benjamin “Coach” Wade?

400

Set them up and place them down. In this game you place dominoes on a board attempting to make them all fit based off of mathematical equations.

What is Pips?

400

This swallowtail gets its name from its host place, the spicebush. It also feeds on sassafras!

What is the spicebush swallowtail?

500

This plant is the subject of the parable in Matthew 13:31-32; you might also find it topping your ballpark hotdog this summer. Separate from its culinary and didactic uses, it has also been used to help decontaminate land polluted with heavy metals.  

What is Indian mustard?

500

In Magic the Gathering, the Phyrexians (a faction of machine hybrids) have leaders called Praetors, one aligned with each of the game’s colors. This is the Green-aligned Phyrexian Praetor.

What is Vorinclex?

500

Minutes per Year

What is 525,600?

500

A recent favorite, this Survivor 50 contestant first appeared only last year on Survivor 48. Known for his physical prowess and close father-daughter like bond with fellow castmate Eva Erickson, he’s been tapped to star in the new Netflix firefighter drama “Where There’s Smoke”.

Who is Joe Hunter?

500

Word searching with a twist. In this game you attempt to find words that all follow a central theme, which is always the only word or set of words that spans the whole puzzle.

What is Strands?

500

This moth exclusively lives on the American sycamore tree. Its brown fuzzy caterpillars feed on the tree’s leaves, and the adult is specially adapted to be almost indistinguishable from the sycamore’s bark.

What is the sycamore tussock moth/sycamore tiger moth?