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
- Simien Brush-furred RatDeep Cut85points
- Simien Vlei RatDeep Cut85points
- Simmons's Big-eared BatDeep Cut85points
- Simmons's Mouse LemurDeep Cut85points
- Simons's Dwarf SquirrelDeep Cut85points
- Simons's Mouse OpossumDeep Cut85points
- Simons's Spiny-ratDeep Cut85points
- Sinaloan DeermouseDeep Cut85points
- Sinaloan Mastiff BatDeep Cut85points
- Sind BatDeep Cut85points
- Singing VoleDeep Cut85points
- Single leaf batDeep Cut85points
- Single-striped Grass MouseDeep Cut85points
- Single-striped OpossumDeep Cut85points
- Sinharaja White-toothed ShrewDeep Cut85points
- Sinnamary Brush-tailed RatDeep Cut85points
- Sipora Flying SquirrelDeep Cut85points
- Sir David Attenborough's MyotisDeep Cut85points
- Siskiyou ChipmunkDeep Cut85points
- Sky Climbing RatDeep Cut85points
- Sleek-furred Ground RatDeep Cut85points
- Slender Broad-nosed BatDeep Cut85points
- Slender Harvest MouseDeep Cut85points
- Slender mongooseDeep Cut85points
- Slender Oldfield MouseDeep Cut85points
- Slender opossumDeep Cut85points
- Slender ShrewDeep Cut85points
- Slender Skull Shrew MoleDeep Cut85points
- Slender SquirrelDeep Cut85points
- Slender TreeshrewDeep Cut85points
- Slender Yellow BatDeep Cut85points
- Slender-tailed SquirrelDeep Cut85points
- Slim-faced slender mouse opossumDeep Cut85points
- Slit-faced batDeep Cut85points
- Sloggett's Vlei RatDeep Cut85points
- Small Asian Sheath-tailed BatDeep Cut85points
- Small Big-eared Brown BatDeep Cut85points
- Small Bornean Spiny RatDeep Cut85points
- Small Comoro flying foxDeep Cut85points
- Small Elongated White-toothed ShrewDeep Cut85points
- Small Fernandina Galapagos MouseDeep Cut85points
- Small five-toed jerboaDeep Cut85points
- Small Forest WallabyDeep Cut85points
- Small Indian civetDeep Cut85points
- Small Indian mongooseDeep Cut85points
- Small Japanese Field MouseDeep Cut85points
- Small Japanese MoleDeep Cut85points
- Small Long-fingered BatDeep Cut85points
- Small Luzon Forest MouseDeep Cut85points
- Small Melanesian Long-fingered BatDeep 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.