Krillion Recorded answers
6,514 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 6,514
- Anchieta's SerotineDeep Cut85points
- Andaman Archipelago RatDeep Cut85points
- Andaman Horseshoe BatDeep Cut85points
- Andaman Spiny White-toothed ShrewDeep Cut85points
- Andaman White-toothed ShrewDeep Cut85points
- Andean Big-eared MouseDeep Cut85points
- Andean Gerbil MouseDeep Cut85points
- Andean Leaf-eared MouseDeep Cut85points
- Andean Long-clawed MouseDeep Cut85points
- Andean mountain catDeep Cut85points
- Andean MouseDeep Cut85points
- Andean Night MonkeyDeep Cut85points
- Andean Pygmy Rice RatDeep Cut85points
- Andean RatDeep Cut85points
- Andean Saddle-back TamarinDeep Cut85points
- Andean SquirrelDeep Cut85points
- Andean Swamp RatDeep Cut85points
- Andean TapetiDeep Cut85points
- Andean Tuco-tucoDeep Cut85points
- Andean Vesper MouseDeep Cut85points
- Andean White-eared OpossumDeep Cut85points
- Andersen's Flying FoxDeep Cut85points
- Andersen's Fruit-eating BatDeep Cut85points
- Andersen's Naked-backed Fruit BatDeep Cut85points
- Andersen's Roundleaf BatDeep Cut85points
- Andersen's Slit-faced BatDeep Cut85points
- Andersen's Woolly Horseshoe BatDeep Cut85points
- Anderson's Arboreal Rice RatDeep Cut85points
- Anderson's Four-eyed OpossumDeep Cut85points
- Anderson's GerbilDeep Cut85points
- Anderson's Mouse OpossumDeep Cut85points
- Anderson's Oldfield MouseDeep Cut85points
- Anderson's Red-backed VoleDeep Cut85points
- Anderson's ShrewDeep Cut85points
- Anderson's Shrew MoleDeep Cut85points
- Anderson's SquirrelDeep Cut85points
- Anderson's Tuco-tucoDeep Cut85points
- Anderson's White-bellied RatDeep Cut85points
- Andohahela Sportive LemurDeep Cut85points
- Andrew Rebori's Yellow BatDeep Cut85points
- Andrews's Hill RatDeep Cut85points
- Angel de la Guarda WoodratDeep Cut85points
- Angolan African DormouseDeep Cut85points
- Angolan Brush-furred RatDeep Cut85points
- Angolan CusimanseDeep Cut85points
- Angolan Dwarf GalagoDeep Cut85points
- Angolan Epauletted Fruit BatDeep Cut85points
- Angolan Free-tailed BatDeep Cut85points
- Angolan GenetDeep Cut85points
- Angolan Groove-toothed Swamp RatDeep 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.