Krillion Recorded answers
6,515 recorded answers
How to approach it
Work from size classes instead of from memory of famous animals. Sketch the handful of mammalian orders in which adults commonly weigh under a few hundred grams, then walk each order's family list and pull one or two names per family. Field-guide indexes, national species checklists and museum collection catalogues are the richest sources, because they supply the long descriptive names that casual players never reach. Build a long list rather than a short one: quantity matters here, so aim for twenty or thirty candidates before you start judging them. Where a species has several common names, submit the most formal one. Finally, keep an eye on spelling, since hyphenated and transliterated forms are usually accepted.
Get a hint
Start from body mass rather than from familiarity: list the mammalian orders in which adults routinely weigh less than a few hundred grams, then work downward through them.
A little more
Harvest names from regional mammal checklists and museum species lists; long compound common names built from a place plus a body feature are a strong signal of a valid, rarely given entry.
One step further
Chase the oddities too: species known from a single mountain range, a cave survey or a recent taxonomic revision often carry the highest value, and hyphenated or transliterated forms are accepted.
Reveal answers 6,515
- Short-faced MoleDeep Cut85points
- Short-faced Oldfield MouseDeep Cut85points
- Short-foramen Birch MouseDeep Cut85points
- Short-furred woolly mouse opossumDeep Cut85points
- Short-haired Water RatDeep Cut85points
- Short-headed Broad-nosed BatDeep Cut85points
- Short-headed Roundleaf BatDeep Cut85points
- Short-nosed Harvest MouseDeep Cut85points
- Short-palated Fruit BatDeep Cut85points
- Short-snouted SengiDeep Cut85points
- Short-tailed Bandicoot RatDeep Cut85points
- Short-tailed batDeep Cut85points
- Short-tailed Birch MouseDeep Cut85points
- Short-tailed BrucieDeep Cut85points
- Short-tailed Brush-furred RatDeep Cut85points
- Short-tailed Cane MouseDeep Cut85points
- Short-tailed ChinchillaDeep Cut85points
- Short-tailed Field VoleDeep Cut85points
- Short-tailed fruit batDeep Cut85points
- Short-tailed MongooseDeep Cut85points
- Short-tailed opossumDeep Cut85points
- Short-tailed Roundleaf BatDeep Cut85points
- short-tailed Salonga White-toothed ShrewDeep Cut85points
- Short-tailed shrewDeep Cut85points
- Short-tailed Shrew TenrecDeep Cut85points
- Short-tailed Singing MouseDeep Cut85points
- Short-tailed Spiny-ratDeep Cut85points
- Short-tailed Talaud Mosaic-tailed RatDeep Cut85points
- Short-tailed Vesper MouseDeep Cut85points
- Short-tailed White-toothed ShrewDeep Cut85points
- Short-winged Free-tailed BatDeep Cut85points
- Shortridge's Horseshoe BatDeep Cut85points
- Shortridge's Long-fingered BatDeep Cut85points
- Shortridge's MouseDeep Cut85points
- Shortridge's Multimammate MouseDeep Cut85points
- Shortridge's Pygmy Rock MouseDeep Cut85points
- Shortridge's ThallomysDeep Cut85points
- Shrew GymnureDeep Cut85points
- Shrew mouseDeep Cut85points
- Shrew opossumDeep Cut85points
- Shrew tenrecDeep Cut85points
- Shrew-faced SquirrelDeep Cut85points
- Shrew-toothed Shrew TenrecDeep Cut85points
- Shuipu Tube-nosed BatDeep Cut85points
- Siau Island TarsierDeep Cut85points
- Siberian ChipmunkDeep Cut85points
- Siberian Flying SquirrelDeep Cut85points
- Siberian JerboaDeep Cut85points
- Siberian Large-toothed ShrewDeep Cut85points
- Siberian lemmingDeep Cut85points
Why these answers count
Almost every entry in the reveal lands in the same high band, which tells you the puzzle rewards reach rather than precision: 6,485 of the 6,514 recorded answers cleared sixty points, and 6,295 of those sat at eighty-five. That middle tier is where competent, well-read answers live — the long descriptive species names that fill a museum checklist, such as Abert's Squirrel or Aba Horseshoe Bat, both worth eighty-five. The hundred-point pair sit apart because they are nearly impossible to arrive at by brainstorming: a single-species family described from a very limited range, and a small animal whose spine is famously reinforced, each rewarding whoever had read up on a taxonomic curiosity. Only 188 answers fell to sixty, presumably the everyday small mammals most players produce first. The lesson is that obscurity, not correctness, moves the score: a household name is valid but cheap, while a name almost nobody else can recall pays the maximum.