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
- American MartenRare60points
- American MinkRare60points
- American PikaRare60points
- Arctic foxRare60points
- Arctic HareRare60points
- Asian small-clawed otterRare60points
- Aye-ayeRare60points
- Banded mongooseRare60points
- BandicootRare60points
- Bat-eared foxRare60points
- Big Brown BatRare60points
- BilbyRare60points
- Black lemurRare60points
- Black ratRare60points
- Black-and-white Ruffed LemurRare60points
- Black-footed catRare60points
- Black-footed ferretRare60points
- Black-tailed JackrabbitRare60points
- Black-tailed Prairie DogRare60points
- Brazilian Free-tailed BatRare60points
- Brown batRare60points
- Brown lemurRare60points
- Brown RatRare60points
- Bumblebee batRare60points
- BushbabyRare60points
- California Ground SquirrelRare60points
- Campbell's dwarf hamsterRare60points
- CapuchinRare60points
- ColugoRare60points
- Common Brush-tailed PossumRare60points
- Common GenetRare60points
- Common Golden-mantled Ground SquirrelRare60points
- Common MarmosetRare60points
- Common PipistrelleRare60points
- Common ShrewRare60points
- Common Vampire BatRare60points
- Common VoleRare60points
- Cotton ratRare60points
- Cotton-top tamarinRare60points
- CottontailRare60points
- Deer mouseRare60points
- DeguRare60points
- Desert HamsterRare60points
- Dik-dikRare60points
- DormouseRare60points
- Dwarf hamsterRare60points
- Dwarf lemurRare60points
- Dwarf mongooseRare60points
- Eastern ChipmunkRare60points
- Eastern CottontailRare60points
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.