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
- Wongai NingauiDeep Cut85points
- Wood LemmingDeep Cut85points
- Wood Sprite OpossumDeep Cut85points
- Wood's Slit-faced BatDeep Cut85points
- Woodall's Slender OpossumDeep Cut85points
- Woodford's Blossom BatDeep Cut85points
- Woodland dormouseDeep Cut85points
- Woodland jumping mouseDeep Cut85points
- Woodland Oldfield MouseDeep Cut85points
- Woodland VoleDeep Cut85points
- Woodlark CuscusDeep Cut85points
- Woolley's Moss MouseDeep Cut85points
- Woolley's PseudantechinusDeep Cut85points
- Woolley's Three-striped DasyureDeep Cut85points
- Woolly batDeep Cut85points
- Woolly False Vampire BatDeep Cut85points
- Woolly flying squirrelDeep Cut85points
- Woolly Forest DormouseDeep Cut85points
- Woolly Giant RatDeep Cut85points
- Woolly HareDeep Cut85points
- Woolly horseshoe batDeep Cut85points
- Woolly lemurDeep Cut85points
- Woolly opossumDeep Cut85points
- Woolly ratDeep Cut85points
- Woolly Soft-haired MouseDeep Cut85points
- Woosnam's Broad-headed MouseDeep Cut85points
- Woosnam's Brush-furred RatDeep Cut85points
- Wrangel island collared lemmingDeep Cut85points
- Wright's Sportive LemurDeep Cut85points
- Wrinkle-faced BatDeep Cut85points
- Wrinkle-lipped batDeep Cut85points
- Wrinkle-lipped Free-tailed BatDeep Cut85points
- Wrist-winged gliderDeep Cut85points
- Wroughton's Giant Mastiff BatDeep Cut85points
- Wuling Mountains Shrew MoleDeep Cut85points
- Wyoming Ground SquirrelDeep Cut85points
- Wyoming Pocket GopherDeep Cut85points
- Xanthippe's White-toothed ShrewDeep Cut85points
- Xeric Four-striped Grass RatDeep Cut85points
- Xico DeermouseDeep Cut85points
- Xingu Bristly MouseDeep Cut85points
- Xingu Silky AnteaterDeep Cut85points
- Xochimilco Marsh Rice RatDeep Cut85points
- Yadong Tube-nosed BatDeep Cut85points
- Yaeyama Horseshoe BatDeep Cut85points
- Yalden's RatDeep Cut85points
- Yalden's Vlei RatDeep Cut85points
- Yalden's White-toothed ShrewDeep Cut85points
- Yamdena Island Mosaic-tailed RatDeep Cut85points
- Yanbaru Whiskered MyotisDeep 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.