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
- Dobson's Shrew TenrecDeep Cut85points
- Dog-faced batDeep Cut85points
- Dog-like batDeep Cut85points
- Dogramaci's VoleDeep Cut85points
- Dollman's Mosaic-tailed RatDeep Cut85points
- Dollman's Sulawesi Spiny RatDeep Cut85points
- Dollman's Vlei RatDeep Cut85points
- Dolores Grass MouseDeep Cut85points
- Dominica Yellow-shouldered BatDeep Cut85points
- Dominican MyotisDeep Cut85points
- Dong Bac Trident Roundleaf BatDeep Cut85points
- Dongola gerbilDeep Cut85points
- Doria's False SerotineDeep Cut85points
- Dormer's BatDeep Cut85points
- Dormouse tufted-tailed ratDeep Cut85points
- Dorothy's Slender OpossumDeep Cut85points
- Doubtful TitiDeep Cut85points
- Doucet's White-toothed ShrewDeep Cut85points
- Douglas squirrelDeep Cut85points
- Douglas's Ground SquirrelDeep Cut85points
- Drab Atlantic Tree-ratDeep Cut85points
- Dragon Tube-nosed Fruit BatDeep Cut85points
- Dramatic White-toothed ShrewDeep Cut85points
- Dressy Oldfield MouseDeep Cut85points
- Drouhard's Shrew TenrecDeep Cut85points
- Dry Chaco Fat-tailed OpossumDeep Cut85points
- Dryad Shrew TenrecDeep Cut85points
- Dryas MonkeyDeep Cut85points
- Dryland Mouse OpossumDeep Cut85points
- Drylands Vesper MouseDeep Cut85points
- Dsinezumi White-toothed ShrewDeep Cut85points
- Du Chaillu's Rope SquirrelDeep Cut85points
- Dubious Trumpet-eared BatDeep Cut85points
- Dubost's Bristly MouseDeep Cut85points
- Dudu's Brush-furred RatDeep Cut85points
- Duke of Abruzzi's Free-tailed BatDeep Cut85points
- Duke of Bedford's VoleDeep Cut85points
- Dulzura Kangaroo RatDeep Cut85points
- Dumbara Valley Spiny MouseDeep Cut85points
- Dune Gerbil MouseDeep Cut85points
- Dune Hairy-footed GerbilDeep Cut85points
- Dune mole-ratDeep Cut85points
- Dune Tuco-tucoDeep Cut85points
- Dunn's GerbilDeep Cut85points
- DunnartDeep Cut85points
- Durango ChipmunkDeep Cut85points
- Durango Coarse-haired Pocket MouseDeep Cut85points
- Durango DeermouseDeep Cut85points
- Durga Das's Roundleaf BatDeep Cut85points
- Dusky antechinusDeep 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.