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
- Comoro RousetteDeep Cut85points
- Complex-toothed Flying SquirrelDeep Cut85points
- Condor Shrew-opossumDeep Cut85points
- Confucian White-bellied RatDeep Cut85points
- Congo Forest RatDeep Cut85points
- Congo Free-tailed BatDeep Cut85points
- Congo Golden MoleDeep Cut85points
- Congo Rope SquirrelDeep Cut85points
- Congo TaterilDeep Cut85points
- Congo Wading RatDeep Cut85points
- Congo White-toothed ShrewDeep Cut85points
- Congolese Brush-furred RatDeep Cut85points
- Conover's Tuco-tucoDeep Cut85points
- Contreras's Tuco-tucoDeep Cut85points
- Convex Horseshoe BatDeep Cut85points
- Cook's HocicudoDeep Cut85points
- Cook's MouseDeep Cut85points
- Cooper's Mountain SquirrelDeep Cut85points
- Coppery Brush-tailed PossumDeep Cut85points
- Coppery Ring-tailed PossumDeep Cut85points
- Coppery TitiDeep Cut85points
- Coppery Woolly BatDeep Cut85points
- Coquerel's Giant Mouse LemurDeep Cut85points
- Coquerel's SifakaDeep Cut85points
- Corben's Long-eared BatDeep Cut85points
- Corbet's Forest ShrewDeep Cut85points
- Cordillera DeermouseDeep Cut85points
- Cordillera Slender OpossumDeep Cut85points
- Córdoba Tuco-tucoDeep Cut85points
- Córdoba Vesper MouseDeep Cut85points
- Coronados deer mouseDeep Cut85points
- Corsac foxDeep Cut85points
- Corsican HareDeep Cut85points
- Corsican MyotisDeep Cut85points
- CoruroDeep Cut85points
- Costa Rican Harvest MouseDeep Cut85points
- Costa Rican Pygmy Rice RatDeep Cut85points
- Cotton DeermouseDeep Cut85points
- Coues's Climbing RatDeep Cut85points
- Coues's Marsh Rice RatDeep Cut85points
- Coulee ChipmunkDeep Cut85points
- Cowan's Shrew TenrecDeep Cut85points
- Cox's Roundleaf BatDeep Cut85points
- Cozumel Harvest MouseDeep Cut85points
- Cozumel RaccoonDeep Cut85points
- Cozumelan Golden BatDeep Cut85points
- Crab-eating MongooseDeep Cut85points
- Cracking-clay Pilbara PlanigaleDeep Cut85points
- Crafty Marsh RatDeep Cut85points
- Crafty Vesper MouseDeep 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.