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
- Siberian WeaselDeep Cut85points
- Siberian Whiskered MyotisDeep Cut85points
- Siberian White-toothed ShrewDeep Cut85points
- Siberut Flying SquirrelDeep Cut85points
- Sibling VoleDeep Cut85points
- Sibree's Dwarf LemurDeep Cut85points
- Sibuyan Striped Shrew RatDeep Cut85points
- Sibuyan White-toothed ShrewDeep Cut85points
- Sichuan Birch MouseDeep Cut85points
- Sichuan Brown-toothed ShrewDeep Cut85points
- Sichuan DormouseDeep Cut85points
- Sichuan Jumping MouseDeep Cut85points
- Sichuan MyotisDeep Cut85points
- Sichuan Red-backed VoleDeep Cut85points
- Sichuan Short-tailed ShrewDeep Cut85points
- Sichuan VoleDeep Cut85points
- Sichuan White-bellied RatDeep Cut85points
- Sicilian Pine VoleDeep Cut85points
- Sicilian White-toothed ShrewDeep Cut85points
- Sierra del Tontal Chinchilla RatDeep Cut85points
- Sierra Leone Collared Fruit BatDeep Cut85points
- Sierra Madre Forest MouseDeep Cut85points
- Sierra Madre Ground SquirrelDeep Cut85points
- Sierra Madre Occidental Pocket GopherDeep Cut85points
- Sierra Madre Shrew MouseDeep Cut85points
- Sierra ShrewDeep Cut85points
- Sierra Tontal Tuco-tucoDeep Cut85points
- Sijin PikaDeep Cut85points
- Sikkim Mountain VoleDeep Cut85points
- Sikkim Water ShrewDeep Cut85points
- Silent Grass MouseDeep Cut85points
- Silky CuscusDeep Cut85points
- Silky MouseDeep Cut85points
- Silky Oldfield MouseDeep Cut85points
- Silky Pocket MouseDeep Cut85points
- Silky Short-tailed BatDeep Cut85points
- Silky Tuco-tucoDeep Cut85points
- Silva's Slender OpossumDeep Cut85points
- Silver dik-dikDeep Cut85points
- Silver Mountain VoleDeep Cut85points
- Silver PikaDeep Cut85points
- Silver-backed ChevrotainDeep Cut85points
- Silver-haired BatDeep Cut85points
- Silver-headed AntechinusDeep Cut85points
- Silver-tipped MyotisDeep Cut85points
- Silvery Fruit-eating BatDeep Cut85points
- Silvery MarmosetDeep Cut85points
- Silvery mole-ratDeep Cut85points
- Simalur Archipelago RatDeep Cut85points
- Simandou PipistrelleDeep 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.