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
- Slow lorisRare60points
- Snowshoe HareRare60points
- Southern Flying SquirrelRare60points
- Southern Three-banded ArmadilloRare60points
- Spiny mouseRare60points
- Spotted skunkRare60points
- Squirrel monkeyRare60points
- Star-nosed MoleRare60points
- StoatRare60points
- Striped SkunkRare60points
- Sugar GliderRare60points
- Swamp RabbitRare60points
- Swift foxRare60points
- Syrian hamsterRare60points
- TamarinRare60points
- TarsierRare60points
- TenrecRare60points
- Thirteen-lined Ground SquirrelRare60points
- Three-banded armadilloRare60points
- Three-toed slothRare60points
- TitiRare60points
- Tree hyraxRare60points
- Tree pangolinRare60points
- Tree shrewRare60points
- Tree squirrelRare60points
- UakariRare60points
- Vampire batRare60points
- Virginia OpossumRare60points
- VoleRare60points
- Water ratRare60points
- Water shrewRare60points
- Water voleRare60points
- Western chipmunkRare60points
- Western Gray SquirrelRare60points
- White-bellied PangolinRare60points
- White-faced CapuchinRare60points
- White-footed mouseRare60points
- White-tailed Prairie DogRare60points
- Winter white dwarf hamsterRare60points
- Wood mouseRare60points
- WoodratRare60points
- Yellow-bellied MarmotRare60points
- ChinchillaSchooler30points
- FerretSchooler30points
- Field mouseSchooler30points
- GerbilSchooler30points
- GopherSchooler30points
- GroundhogSchooler30points
- HedgehogSchooler30points
- House MouseSchooler30points
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.