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
- Yankari White-toothed ShrewDeep Cut85points
- Yapen Island RatDeep Cut85points
- Yarkand HareDeep Cut85points
- Yarlung Zangbo Mountain VoleDeep Cut85points
- Yates's Big-eared BatDeep Cut85points
- Yates's Tuco-tucoDeep Cut85points
- Ybyra Climbing RatDeep Cut85points
- Yellow Arboreal Rice RatDeep Cut85points
- Yellow batDeep Cut85points
- Yellow DeermouseDeep Cut85points
- Yellow Golden MoleDeep Cut85points
- Yellow Ground SquirrelDeep Cut85points
- Yellow mongooseDeep Cut85points
- Yellow PikaDeep Cut85points
- Yellow Pygmy Rice RatDeep Cut85points
- Yellow Quill-tipped PorcupineDeep Cut85points
- Yellow Speckled Tree-ratDeep Cut85points
- Yellow Steppe LemmingDeep Cut85points
- Yellow-bellied Climbing RatDeep Cut85points
- Yellow-bellied GliderDeep Cut85points
- Yellow-bellied Sheath-tailed BatDeep Cut85points
- Yellow-bellied WeaselDeep Cut85points
- Yellow-breasted CapuchinDeep Cut85points
- Yellow-cheeked ChipmunkDeep Cut85points
- Yellow-crowned Brush-tailed RatDeep Cut85points
- Yellow-eared batDeep Cut85points
- Yellow-faced Horseshoe BatDeep Cut85points
- Yellow-faced Pocket GopherDeep Cut85points
- Yellow-footed AntechinusDeep Cut85points
- Yellow-handed TitiDeep Cut85points
- Yellow-lipped Cave BatDeep Cut85points
- Yellow-necked Field MouseDeep Cut85points
- Yellow-nosed Cotton RatDeep Cut85points
- Yellow-pine ChipmunkDeep Cut85points
- Yellow-rumped Leaf-eared MouseDeep Cut85points
- Yellow-shouldered batDeep Cut85points
- Yellow-striped ChevrotainDeep Cut85points
- Yellow-throated MartenDeep Cut85points
- Yellow-winged False-vampireDeep Cut85points
- Yellowish MyotisDeep Cut85points
- Yellowish Rice RatDeep Cut85points
- Yemen White-bellied Rocky MouseDeep Cut85points
- Yemeni Trident BatDeep Cut85points
- Yok Don Helmeted BatDeep Cut85points
- Yonenaga's Spiny-ratDeep Cut85points
- Yong Hoi Sen's Woolly Horseshoe BatDeep Cut85points
- Yuanyang Tube-nosed BatDeep Cut85points
- Yucatán CottontailDeep Cut85points
- Yucatán DeermouseDeep Cut85points
- Yucatán Gray Mouse OpossumDeep 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.