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
- Yucatán Small-eared ShrewDeep Cut85points
- Yucatán Spotted SkunkDeep Cut85points
- Yucatán SquirrelDeep Cut85points
- Yucatán Vesper RatDeep Cut85points
- Yucatán Yellow BatDeep Cut85points
- Yulongxuen Red-backed VoleDeep Cut85points
- Yuma MyotisDeep Cut85points
- Yungas Grass MouseDeep Cut85points
- Yungas Long-nosed ArmadilloDeep Cut85points
- Yungas Rice RatDeep Cut85points
- Yunnan Field MouseDeep Cut85points
- Yunnan HadromysDeep Cut85points
- Yunnan HareDeep Cut85points
- Yunnan Red-backed VoleDeep Cut85points
- Yunnan Rufous Horseshoe BatDeep Cut85points
- Yunnan Striped ShrewDeep Cut85points
- Yunnan Woolly Flying SquirrelDeep Cut85points
- Yushu Tube-nosed BatDeep Cut85points
- Zacatecan Harvest MouseDeep Cut85points
- Zacatecas ShrewDeep Cut85points
- Zagros Mountains Brush-tailed MouseDeep Cut85points
- Zaisan Three-toed JerboaDeep Cut85points
- Zambales Forest MouseDeep Cut85points
- Zambian Mole-ratDeep Cut85points
- Zamora DeermouseDeep Cut85points
- Zanda White-toothed ShrewDeep Cut85points
- Zanj Sun SquirrelDeep Cut85points
- Zaphiro's White-toothed ShrewDeep Cut85points
- Zarudny's JirdDeep Cut85points
- Zarudny's White-toothed ShrewDeep Cut85points
- Zeledon's Mouse OpossumDeep Cut85points
- Zempoaltepec DeermouseDeep Cut85points
- Zempoaltepec VoleDeep Cut85points
- Zena Brush-furred RatDeep Cut85points
- Zenati MyotisDeep Cut85points
- Zenker's Fruit BatDeep Cut85points
- Zenker's Pygmy AnomalureDeep Cut85points
- ZenkerellaDeep Cut85points
- Zhejiang Red-backed VoleDeep Cut85points
- Zhetysu Birch MouseDeep Cut85points
- Ziama Horseshoe BatDeep Cut85points
- Ziegler's Water RatDeep Cut85points
- Zima's Ethiopian RatDeep Cut85points
- ZokorDeep Cut85points
- Zombitse Sportive LemurDeep Cut85points
- ZorillaDeep Cut85points
- Zulu SerotineDeep Cut85points
- Zuniga's Dark Rice RatDeep Cut85points
- African pygmy hedgehogRare60points
- AgoutiRare60points
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.