Hints

Plot-hole #220 · October 25, 2026

Difficulty: Hard · 53% of 232 players solved it.

Hint 1 — One-word hint

"Segregation"

Hint 2 — The Setup

Johannesburg, South Africa, where a massive alien ship hovers over the city.

Hint 3 — The Character

The aliens are confined to a slum and treated as second-class beings.

Hint 4 — The Conflict

A bureaucrat is sent to evict them and gets exposed to alien technology.

Hint 5 — The Twist

He begins transforming into one of the aliens.

Final hint (names names)

Neill Blomkamp's sci-fi film about alien refugees living in a South African shantytown.

The answer

District 9 (2009)