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
- Giant Kangaroo RatDeep Cut85points
- Giant Mole ShrewDeep Cut85points
- Giant mole-ratDeep Cut85points
- Giant mouse lemurDeep Cut85points
- Giant naked-tailed ratDeep Cut85points
- Giant Otter-shrewDeep Cut85points
- Giant Pocket GopherDeep Cut85points
- Giant ratDeep Cut85points
- Giant Root RatDeep Cut85points
- Giant Roundleaf BatDeep Cut85points
- Giant sengiDeep Cut85points
- Giant Sulawesi RatDeep Cut85points
- Giant sunda ratDeep Cut85points
- Giant-striped mongooseDeep Cut85points
- Gibber KultarrDeep Cut85points
- Giffard's GerbilDeep Cut85points
- Gilbert's DunnartDeep Cut85points
- Gilbert's PotorooDeep Cut85points
- Gilded Tube-nosed BatDeep Cut85points
- Giles's PlanigaleDeep Cut85points
- Gilliards' Flying FoxDeep Cut85points
- Giovanni's Big-eared BatDeep Cut85points
- Gland-tailed Free-tailed BatDeep Cut85points
- Glass's White-toothed ShrewDeep Cut85points
- Gleaning DeermouseDeep Cut85points
- Glen's Butterfly BatDeep Cut85points
- Glen's Long-fingered BatDeep Cut85points
- Gloomy Tube-nosed BatDeep Cut85points
- Glossy Horseshoe BatDeep Cut85points
- Glover Allen's Shaggy RatDeep Cut85points
- Gmelin's white-toothed shrewDeep Cut85points
- Gnome fruit-eating batDeep Cut85points
- Gobi Altai Mountain VoleDeep Cut85points
- Gobi JerboaDeep Cut85points
- Gobi Long-eared BatDeep Cut85points
- Gobi SerotineDeep Cut85points
- Godman's Long-tailed BatDeep Cut85points
- Goeldi's monkeyDeep Cut85points
- Goeldi's Spiny-ratDeep Cut85points
- Golan heights blind mole ratDeep Cut85points
- Golden AngwantiboDeep Cut85points
- Golden Atlantic Tree-ratDeep Cut85points
- Golden Bamboo LemurDeep Cut85points
- Golden BandicootDeep Cut85points
- Golden batDeep Cut85points
- Golden MouseDeep Cut85points
- Golden MyotisDeep Cut85points
- Golden Oldfield MouseDeep Cut85points
- Golden Palm CivetDeep Cut85points
- Golden Spiny MouseDeep 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.