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
- Derby's Woolly OpossumDeep Cut85points
- Deroo's mouseDeep Cut85points
- Desert CottontailDeep Cut85points
- Desert DormouseDeep Cut85points
- Desert Gray ShrewDeep Cut85points
- Desert GundiDeep Cut85points
- Desert HareDeep Cut85points
- Desert HedgehogDeep Cut85points
- Desert Kangaroo RatDeep Cut85points
- Desert Long-eared BatDeep Cut85points
- Desert MouseDeep Cut85points
- Desert Pocket GopherDeep Cut85points
- Desert Pocket MouseDeep Cut85points
- Desert Pygmy MouseDeep Cut85points
- Desert Red BatDeep Cut85points
- Desert shrewDeep Cut85points
- Desert Spotted SkunkDeep Cut85points
- Desert White-toothed ShrewDeep Cut85points
- Desert woodratDeep Cut85points
- Desert Yellow Lesser House BatDeep Cut85points
- DesmanDeep Cut85points
- Desmarest's Spiny Pocket MouseDeep Cut85points
- Desperate White-toothed ShrewDeep Cut85points
- Dewi White-toothed ShrewDeep Cut85points
- Dexing Large-clawed ShrewDeep Cut85points
- Dhofar PipistrelleDeep Cut85points
- Dhofar White-toothed ShrewDeep Cut85points
- Diadem Roundleaf BatDeep Cut85points
- Dian's TarsierDeep Cut85points
- Diana monkeyDeep Cut85points
- Diauarum Grass MouseDeep Cut85points
- DibblerDeep Cut85points
- Dice's CottontailDeep Cut85points
- Dickey's DeermouseDeep Cut85points
- Diminutive gerbilDeep Cut85points
- Diminutive MyotisDeep Cut85points
- Diminutive SerotineDeep Cut85points
- Dinagat Bushy-tailed Cloud RatDeep Cut85points
- Dinagat GymnureDeep Cut85points
- Dinira Small-eared ShrewDeep Cut85points
- Disk-footed BatDeep Cut85points
- Disk-winged batDeep Cut85points
- Distinguished Oldfield MouseDeep Cut85points
- Diurnal Sulawesian Shrew RatDeep Cut85points
- Diwangkara's Long-tailed Giant RatDeep Cut85points
- Dja Slit-faced BatDeep Cut85points
- Dobson's Epauletted Fruit BatDeep Cut85points
- Dobson's Horseshoe BatDeep Cut85points
- Dobson's Lesser Mustached BatDeep Cut85points
- Dobson's Roundleaf BatDeep 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.