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
- Southern Sinaloan Pocket MouseDeep Cut85points
- Southern Small Five-toed JerboaDeep Cut85points
- Southern Small-toothed Moss MouseDeep Cut85points
- Southern Spiny Pocket MouseDeep Cut85points
- Southern Spotted SkunkDeep Cut85points
- Southern Stripe-headed Round-eared BatDeep Cut85points
- Southern Talapoin MonkeyDeep Cut85points
- Southern Tree HyraxDeep Cut85points
- Southern Tree MouseDeep Cut85points
- Southern White-ankled DeermouseDeep Cut85points
- Southern White-breasted HedgehogDeep Cut85points
- Southern White-eared OpossumDeep Cut85points
- Southern Woolly LemurDeep Cut85points
- Southern Yellow BatDeep Cut85points
- Southwest China Red-backed VoleDeep Cut85points
- Southwest Peninsula White-toothed ShrewDeep Cut85points
- Southwestern brown bandicootDeep Cut85points
- Southwestern Free-tailed BatDeep Cut85points
- Southwestern MyotisDeep Cut85points
- Southwestern Texas Pocket GopherDeep Cut85points
- Southwestern Water VoleDeep Cut85points
- Southwestern Xanthurus RatDeep Cut85points
- Sowbug Rice RatDeep Cut85points
- Sowell's Short-tailed BatDeep Cut85points
- Sowerby's Whiskered MyotisDeep Cut85points
- Spear-nosed batDeep Cut85points
- Speckled DasyureDeep Cut85points
- Speckled Ground SquirrelDeep Cut85points
- Speckled marsupial mouseDeep Cut85points
- Spectacled African DormouseDeep Cut85points
- Spectacled Flying FoxDeep Cut85points
- Spectacled Hare WallabyDeep Cut85points
- Spectacled Lesser GalagoDeep Cut85points
- Spectacled Slender OpossumDeep Cut85points
- Spectral BatDeep Cut85points
- Spegazzini's Grass MouseDeep Cut85points
- Speke's GundiDeep Cut85points
- Spinifex Hopping MouseDeep Cut85points
- Spinifex MulgaraDeep Cut85points
- Spiny bandicootDeep Cut85points
- Spiny Boki Mekot RatDeep Cut85points
- Spiny Moss MouseDeep Cut85points
- Spiny Pocket MouseDeep Cut85points
- Spiny ratDeep Cut85points
- Spiny Seram Island RatDeep Cut85points
- Spiny Taiwan White-bellied RatDeep Cut85points
- Spiny tree-ratDeep Cut85points
- Spix's Disk-winged BatDeep Cut85points
- Spix's Mustached TamarinDeep Cut85points
- Spix's Night MonkeyDeep 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.