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
- Chinese Rufous Horseshoe BatDeep Cut85points
- Chinese Short-tailed ShrewDeep Cut85points
- Chinese ShrewDeep Cut85points
- Chinese Shrew MoleDeep Cut85points
- Chinese Water MyotisDeep Cut85points
- Chinese Water ShrewDeep Cut85points
- Chinese White-toothed ShrewDeep Cut85points
- Chingawa Forest RatDeep Cut85points
- Chiribaya's Bonneted BatDeep Cut85points
- Chiribiquete Sword-nosed BatDeep Cut85points
- Chiriqui Pocket GopherDeep Cut85points
- Chiriquian Harvest MouseDeep Cut85points
- Chiriquinan SerotineDeep Cut85points
- Chisel-toothed Kangaroo RatDeep Cut85points
- Choco Dwarf SquirrelDeep Cut85points
- Choco Yellow-shouldered BatDeep Cut85points
- Chocoan Nectar BatDeep Cut85points
- Chocolate PipistrelleDeep Cut85points
- Chocolate Wattled BatDeep Cut85points
- Christie's Long-eared BatDeep Cut85points
- Christina's Margareta RatDeep Cut85points
- Christmas Island White-toothed ShrewDeep Cut85points
- Christy's African DormouseDeep Cut85points
- Chudeau's Spiny MouseDeep Cut85points
- Chutamas's Horseshoe BatDeep Cut85points
- Chuuk Flying FoxDeep Cut85points
- Cinderella fat-tailed mouse opossumDeep Cut85points
- Cinderella White-toothed ShrewDeep Cut85points
- Cinnamon AntechinusDeep Cut85points
- Cinnamon Dog-faced BatDeep Cut85points
- Cinnamon MyotisDeep Cut85points
- Cinnamon Red BatDeep Cut85points
- Cinnamon-colored Oldfield MouseDeep Cut85points
- Cinnamon-rufous Rice RatDeep Cut85points
- Clara's Spiny BandicootDeep Cut85points
- Clarke's VoleDeep Cut85points
- Clear-winged Woolly BatDeep Cut85points
- Cleber's Arboreal Rice RatDeep Cut85points
- Cliff ChipmunkDeep Cut85points
- Climbing mouseDeep Cut85points
- Climbing ratDeep Cut85points
- Climbing ShrewDeep Cut85points
- Cloud Forest Grass MouseDeep Cut85points
- Cloud Forest Rice RatDeep Cut85points
- Cloud ratDeep Cut85points
- Cloud-dwelling Spiny Pocket MouseDeep Cut85points
- Clouded OncillaDeep Cut85points
- Clyde Jones's MyotisDeep Cut85points
- Coahuila ChipmunkDeep Cut85points
- Coalcoman DeermouseDeep 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.