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
- Flat-headed MyotisDeep Cut85points
- Flat-headed PikaDeep Cut85points
- Flat-headed White-toothed ShrewDeep Cut85points
- Flat-skulled ShrewDeep Cut85points
- Flat-skulled Woolly BatDeep Cut85points
- Flores ShrewDeep Cut85points
- Flores Tube-nosed BatDeep Cut85points
- Flores Woolly BatDeep Cut85points
- Florida Bonneted BatDeep Cut85points
- Florida DeermouseDeep Cut85points
- Florida Least ShrewDeep Cut85points
- Florida Salt Marsh VoleDeep Cut85points
- Flower BatDeep Cut85points
- Flower's GerbilDeep Cut85points
- Flower's White-toothed ShrewDeep Cut85points
- Fly River Roundleaf BatDeep Cut85points
- Fly River Water RatDeep Cut85points
- Fly River Woolly BatDeep Cut85points
- Foch's Tuco-tucoDeep Cut85points
- Fog ShrewDeep Cut85points
- Fontanier's ZokorDeep Cut85points
- Foothill Arboreal Rice RatDeep Cut85points
- Forbes's Tree MouseDeep Cut85points
- Forest African DormouseDeep Cut85points
- Forest BatDeep Cut85points
- Forest Giant Pouched RatDeep Cut85points
- Forest Giant SquirrelDeep Cut85points
- Forest Grass MouseDeep Cut85points
- Forest Oldfield MouseDeep Cut85points
- Forest PipistrelleDeep Cut85points
- Forest Rock DeermouseDeep Cut85points
- Forest Small Rice RatDeep Cut85points
- Forest Steppe MarmotDeep Cut85points
- Forest Tuco-tucoDeep Cut85points
- Fork-marked lemurDeep Cut85points
- Formosan Ferret-badgerDeep Cut85points
- Formosan Giant Flying SquirrelDeep Cut85points
- Formosan Horseshoe BatDeep Cut85points
- Formosan MoleDeep Cut85points
- Formosan Tube-nosed BatDeep Cut85points
- Formosan Woolly Horseshoe BatDeep Cut85points
- Forrest's Mountain VoleDeep Cut85points
- Forrest's PikaDeep Cut85points
- Forrest's Rock SquirrelDeep Cut85points
- Fossorial Giant RatDeep Cut85points
- Foster's PunareDeep Cut85points
- Four-eyed opossumDeep Cut85points
- Four-striped Ground SquirrelDeep Cut85points
- Four-toed HedgehogDeep Cut85points
- Four-toed JerboaDeep 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.