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
- Sorojchi Mountain CavyDeep Cut85points
- Sororcula Long-fingered BatDeep Cut85points
- South African Mouse ShrewDeep Cut85points
- South African Thicket RatDeep Cut85points
- South American coatiDeep Cut85points
- South American gray foxDeep Cut85points
- South American Water RatDeep Cut85points
- South China Field MouseDeep Cut85points
- South China White-bellied RatDeep Cut85points
- South East African Vlei RatDeep Cut85points
- South European White-toothed ShrewDeep Cut85points
- South Moluccan Flying FoxDeep Cut85points
- South Serbian Blind Mole-ratDeep Cut85points
- Southeast Asian Striped SquirrelDeep Cut85points
- Southeast Asian White-toothed ShrewDeep Cut85points
- Southeastern Desert WoodratDeep Cut85points
- Southeastern MyotisDeep Cut85points
- Southeastern Pocket GopherDeep Cut85points
- Southeastern ShrewDeep Cut85points
- Southeastern Woolly Mouse OpossumDeep Cut85points
- Southeastern Xanthurus RatDeep Cut85points
- Southern African HedgehogDeep Cut85points
- Southern African Multimammate MouseDeep Cut85points
- Southern African Pouched MouseDeep Cut85points
- Southern African Spiny MouseDeep Cut85points
- Southern African SpringhareDeep Cut85points
- Southern African Vlei RatDeep Cut85points
- Southern Amazon Red SquirrelDeep Cut85points
- Southern Atlantic Tree-ratDeep Cut85points
- Southern Bahian TitiDeep Cut85points
- Southern Baja DeermouseDeep Cut85points
- Southern Bamboo LemurDeep Cut85points
- Southern bent-winged batDeep Cut85points
- Southern Big-eared Brown BatDeep Cut85points
- Southern Big-eared MouseDeep Cut85points
- Southern Birch MouseDeep Cut85points
- Southern Black Giant SquirrelDeep Cut85points
- Southern Black Mastiff BatDeep Cut85points
- Southern Black-eared OpossumDeep Cut85points
- Southern Blossom BatDeep Cut85points
- Southern Bog LemmingDeep Cut85points
- Southern Broad-footed MoleDeep Cut85points
- Southern Brown BandicootDeep Cut85points
- Southern California Pocket GopherDeep Cut85points
- Southern Climbing RatDeep Cut85points
- Southern ColocoloDeep Cut85points
- Southern Colombian Small-eared ShrewDeep Cut85points
- Southern Common CuscusDeep Cut85points
- Southern Coppery SpriteDeep Cut85points
- Southern DeermouseDeep 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.