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
- Unalaska Collared LemmingDeep Cut85points
- Uncommon Sword-nosed BatDeep Cut85points
- Underwood's Bonneted BatDeep Cut85points
- Underwood's Long-tongued BatDeep Cut85points
- Underwood's Pocket GopherDeep Cut85points
- Underwood's Water MouseDeep Cut85points
- Unduavi Mouse OpossumDeep Cut85points
- Uneven-toothed RatDeep Cut85points
- Ungava Collared LemmingDeep Cut85points
- Unicolored Arboreal Rice RatDeep Cut85points
- Unicolored Grass MouseDeep Cut85points
- Unicolored Oldfield MouseDeep Cut85points
- Unicolored Tree-ratDeep Cut85points
- Unstriped Ground SquirrelDeep Cut85points
- Unstriped Tube-nosed Fruit BatDeep Cut85points
- Upemba White-toothed ShrewDeep Cut85points
- Upland Horseshoe BatDeep Cut85points
- Upland SquirrelDeep Cut85points
- Upper Juruá Bristly MouseDeep Cut85points
- Upper Yungas Inca HocicudoDeep Cut85points
- Urar Brush-tailed MouseDeep Cut85points
- Urubamba Brown TitiDeep Cut85points
- Uruguay Swamp RatDeep Cut85points
- Uruguayan ColocoloDeep Cut85points
- Usambara White-toothed ShrewDeep Cut85points
- Ussuri MoleDeep Cut85points
- Ussuri ShrewDeep Cut85points
- Ussuri Tube-nosed BatDeep Cut85points
- Ussuri White-toothed ShrewDeep Cut85points
- Uta Hick's Bearded SakiDeep Cut85points
- Utah Prairie DogDeep Cut85points
- Utiariti Pygmy Rice RatDeep Cut85points
- Vagrant ShrewDeep Cut85points
- Valais ShrewDeep Cut85points
- Valdivian Long-clawed MouseDeep Cut85points
- Valley MyotisDeep Cut85points
- Valparaíso MyotisDeep Cut85points
- Van Deusen's New Guinea Mountain RatDeep Cut85points
- Van Gelder's BatDeep Cut85points
- Van Sung's Brown-toothed ShrewDeep Cut85points
- Van Zyl's Golden MoleDeep Cut85points
- Vangunu Giant RatDeep Cut85points
- Vanikoro Flying FoxDeep Cut85points
- Vanuatu Flying FoxDeep Cut85points
- Vanzolini's Bald-faced SakiDeep Cut85points
- Vargas Llosa's Bristly MouseDeep Cut85points
- Variable Grass MouseDeep Cut85points
- Variable Pocket GopherDeep Cut85points
- Variegated Butterfly BatDeep Cut85points
- Variegated SquirrelDeep 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.