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
- Cyrenaica VoleDeep Cut85points
- Cyrenaica White-toothed ShrewDeep Cut85points
- D'Albertis's Ring-tailed PossumDeep Cut85points
- D’Andrea's PunareDeep Cut85points
- D'Elía's Pygmy Rice RatDeep Cut85points
- D'Entrecasteaux Archipelago Tree MouseDeep Cut85points
- Dabie Mountains Shrew MoleDeep Cut85points
- Dabieshan Brown-toothed ShrewDeep Cut85points
- Dahl's JirdDeep Cut85points
- Dahomey Gap Wood MouseDeep Cut85points
- Daintree River Ring-tailed PossumDeep Cut85points
- Dainty Fat MouseDeep Cut85points
- Dalat GymnureDeep Cut85points
- Dalou Mountains Tree MouseDeep Cut85points
- Dalquest's Pocket MouseDeep Cut85points
- Dalton's Soft-furred MouseDeep Cut85points
- Damara Ground SquirrelDeep Cut85points
- Damara Horseshoe BatDeep Cut85points
- Damara Mole-ratDeep Cut85points
- Damara Woolly BatDeep Cut85points
- Daniel's Tufted-tail RatDeep Cut85points
- Daovantien's Limestone RatDeep Cut85points
- Daphne's Oldfield MouseDeep Cut85points
- Dar-es-Salaam PipistrelleDeep Cut85points
- Daraina Sportive LemurDeep Cut85points
- Darfur GerbilDeep Cut85points
- Darién Broad-nosed BatDeep Cut85points
- Darién Harvest MouseDeep Cut85points
- Darién Pocket GopherDeep Cut85points
- Darién Small-eared ShrewDeep Cut85points
- Dark Four-eyed OpossumDeep Cut85points
- Dark Fruit-eating BatDeep Cut85points
- Dark Grass MouseDeep Cut85points
- Dark kangaroo mouseDeep Cut85points
- Dark Long-tongued BatDeep Cut85points
- Dark Mexican Broad-clawed ShrewDeep Cut85points
- Dark mongooseDeep Cut85points
- Dark Sheath-tailed BatDeep Cut85points
- Dark Shrew TenrecDeep Cut85points
- Dark Thick-thumbed BatDeep Cut85points
- Dark Tree-ratDeep Cut85points
- Dark White-toothed ShrewDeep Cut85points
- Dark Woolly BatDeep Cut85points
- Dark-brown SerotineDeep Cut85points
- Dark-colored Brush-furred RatDeep Cut85points
- Dark-footed Mouse ShrewDeep Cut85points
- Dark-furred AkodontDeep Cut85points
- Dark-winged Lesser House BatDeep Cut85points
- Darling's Horseshoe BatDeep Cut85points
- Darvish's Brush-tailed 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.