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
- Fat-tailed JerboaDeep Cut85points
- Fat-tailed mouse opossumDeep Cut85points
- Fat-tailed PseudantechinusDeep Cut85points
- Father Basilio's Striped MouseDeep Cut85points
- Fawn AntechinusDeep Cut85points
- Fawn Hopping MouseDeep Cut85points
- Fawn-colored MouseDeep Cut85points
- Fawn-colored Roundleaf BatDeep Cut85points
- Fawn-footed Mosaic-tailed RatDeep Cut85points
- Fea's Tube-nosed BatDeep Cut85points
- Feather-tailed PossumDeep Cut85points
- Feathertail gliderDeep Cut85points
- Fecund Vesper MouseDeep Cut85points
- Feiler's RatDeep Cut85points
- Feline GenetDeep Cut85points
- Felou GundiDeep Cut85points
- Fenestra's Fat-tailed Mouse OpossumDeep Cut85points
- Feng's White-bellied RatDeep Cut85points
- Fengjie Tree MouseDeep Cut85points
- Fenton's Mastiff BatDeep Cut85points
- Fernandez's Sword-nosed BatDeep Cut85points
- Ferreira's Fish-eating RatDeep Cut85points
- Ferreira's Spiny Tree-ratDeep Cut85points
- Ferret-badgerDeep Cut85points
- Ferruginous WoodratDeep Cut85points
- Fierce Bonneted BatDeep Cut85points
- Fierce Roundleaf BatDeep Cut85points
- Fiery Spiny MouseDeep Cut85points
- Fig-eating batDeep Cut85points
- Fijian Free-tailed BatDeep Cut85points
- Fijian Long-tailed Fruit BatDeep Cut85points
- Fijian Monkey-faced Fruit BatDeep Cut85points
- Findley's MyotisDeep Cut85points
- Fingui White-toothed ShrewDeep Cut85points
- Finlayson's Cave BatDeep Cut85points
- Finlayson's SquirrelDeep Cut85points
- Fiona's Tube-nosed BatDeep Cut85points
- Fire-footed Rope SquirrelDeep Cut85points
- Fischer's Little Fruit BatDeep Cut85points
- Fischer's Pygmy Fruit BatDeep Cut85points
- Fischer's White-toothed ShrewDeep Cut85points
- Fish-eating MyotisDeep Cut85points
- Five-toed Pygmy JerboaDeep Cut85points
- Flamarion's Tuco-tucoDeep Cut85points
- Flat-faced Fruit-eating BatDeep Cut85points
- Flat-haired MouseDeep Cut85points
- Flat-headed African DormouseDeep Cut85points
- Flat-headed catDeep Cut85points
- Flat-headed CusimanseDeep Cut85points
- Flat-headed Free-tailed 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.