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
- Swamp ratDeep Cut85points
- Swamp White-toothed ShrewDeep Cut85points
- Swarthy GerbilDeep Cut85points
- Swinhoe's Roundleaf BatDeep Cut85points
- Swinhoe's Striped SquirrelDeep Cut85points
- Swinny's Horseshoe BatDeep Cut85points
- Sword-nosed batDeep Cut85points
- Swynnerton's Bush SquirrelDeep Cut85points
- Syrian Brush-tailed MouseDeep Cut85points
- Syrian Five-toed JerboaDeep Cut85points
- Tacarcunan BatDeep Cut85points
- Taczanowski's Oldfield MouseDeep Cut85points
- Taddei's SerotineDeep Cut85points
- Taiga ShrewDeep Cut85points
- Taiga VoleDeep Cut85points
- Tailed Tailless BatDeep Cut85points
- Tailless BatDeep Cut85points
- Tailless Fruit BatDeep Cut85points
- Taita ShrewDeep Cut85points
- Taiva Shrew TenrecDeep Cut85points
- Taiwan Broad-muzzled BatDeep Cut85points
- Taiwan Field MouseDeep Cut85points
- Taiwan Giant Flying SquirrelDeep Cut85points
- Taiwan Long-eared BatDeep Cut85points
- Taiwan Tube-nosed BatDeep Cut85points
- Taiwan VoleDeep Cut85points
- Taiwanese Brown-toothed ShrewDeep Cut85points
- Taiwanese Gray White-toothed ShrewDeep Cut85points
- Taiwanese Mole ShrewDeep Cut85points
- Tajuddin's Spiny RatDeep Cut85points
- Talamancan Broad-clawed ShrewDeep Cut85points
- Talamancan DeermouseDeep Cut85points
- Talamancan Harvest MouseDeep Cut85points
- Talamancan Rice RatDeep Cut85points
- Talamancan Yellow-shouldered BatDeep Cut85points
- TalapoinDeep Cut85points
- Talas Tuco-tucoDeep Cut85points
- Talaud Flying FoxDeep Cut85points
- Talazac's Shrew TenrecDeep Cut85points
- Talgar Birch MouseDeep Cut85points
- Taliabu Island RatDeep Cut85points
- Talysch MoleDeep Cut85points
- Tama Small-eared ShrewDeep Cut85points
- Tamarisk JirdDeep Cut85points
- Tamaulipan WoodratDeep Cut85points
- Tamaulipas JackrabbitDeep Cut85points
- Tamaulipas White-ankled DeermouseDeep Cut85points
- Tambusisi Hill RatDeep Cut85points
- Tana Toraja Hill RatDeep Cut85points
- Tanala Tufted-tail RatDeep 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.