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
- Four-toed MongooseDeep Cut85points
- Four-toed Rice TenrecDeep Cut85points
- Four-toed SengiDeep Cut85points
- Fox's Shaggy RatDeep Cut85points
- Fox's White-toothed ShrewDeep Cut85points
- Francis's Woolly Horseshoe BatDeep Cut85points
- Franciscos' Arboreal Rice RatDeep Cut85points
- Franklin's Ground SquirrelDeep Cut85points
- Franquet's Epauletted Fruit BatDeep Cut85points
- Fraser's White-toothed ShrewDeep Cut85points
- Fraternal Fruit-eating BatDeep Cut85points
- Fraternal MyotisDeep Cut85points
- Fraternal SquirrelDeep Cut85points
- Free State Pygmy MouseDeep Cut85points
- Freeman's Dog-faced BatDeep Cut85points
- Fremont's SquirrelDeep Cut85points
- Friendly Leaf-eared MouseDeep Cut85points
- Fringe-eared Mindoro Forest MouseDeep Cut85points
- Fringe-tailed GerbilDeep Cut85points
- Fringed Fruit-eating BatDeep Cut85points
- Fringed Long-footed MyotisDeep Cut85points
- Fringed MyotisDeep Cut85points
- Frog-eating batDeep Cut85points
- Froggatt's DunnartDeep Cut85points
- Frosted MyotisDeep Cut85points
- Frosted PorcupineDeep Cut85points
- Frosted Sac-winged BatDeep Cut85points
- Fruit-eating batDeep Cut85points
- Fujian Tube-nosed BatDeep Cut85points
- Fulvous Harvest MouseDeep Cut85points
- Fulvous Pocket GopherDeep Cut85points
- Fulvous Pygmy Rice RatDeep Cut85points
- Fulvous TapetiDeep Cut85points
- Fulvous-bellied Climbing RatDeep Cut85points
- Fulvus Roundleaf BatDeep Cut85points
- Funiushan Shrew MoleDeep Cut85points
- Funnel-eared batDeep Cut85points
- Furtive Tuco-tucoDeep Cut85points
- Fynbos Golden MoleDeep Cut85points
- Fynbos Vlei RatDeep Cut85points
- Gabon Squirrel GalagoDeep Cut85points
- Gag Island RatDeep Cut85points
- Gairdner's Shrew-like MouseDeep Cut85points
- Gaisler's Long-eared BatDeep Cut85points
- Galápagos mouseDeep Cut85points
- Galapagos Rice RatDeep Cut85points
- Gallagher's Free-tailed BatDeep Cut85points
- Galungla Mountain PikaDeep Cut85points
- Gambel's DeermouseDeep Cut85points
- Gambian Epauletted Fruit 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.