Name a mammal smaller than a house cat - Krillion Answers 2026-10-20

6,515 recorded names on October 20, 2026, 6,298 at 85 or higher. The highest recorded score on this question is 100.

Aim for species-level names from the groups that pack the most tiny bodies per genus — the further you go down a field-guide index, the better the payoff. Any living mammal species whose adult body mass typically stays well under that of a domestic cat counts; single-word catch-all labels for whole groups score far less than a proper species name.

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

Grant's Forest ShrewDeep Cut85points
Grant's Golden MoleDeep Cut85points
Grant's Rock RatDeep Cut85points
Grass mouseDeep Cut85points
Grass ratDeep Cut85points
Grasse's White-toothed ShrewDeep Cut85points
Grasshopper mouseDeep Cut85points
Grassland Mosaic-tailed RatDeep Cut85points
Grauer's Large-headed ShrewDeep Cut85points
Gray African Climbing MouseDeep Cut85points
Gray Bamboo LemurDeep Cut85points
Gray Birch MouseDeep Cut85points
Gray Brush-furred RatDeep Cut85points
Gray flying foxDeep Cut85points
Gray Four-eyed OpossumDeep Cut85points
Gray HamsterDeep Cut85points
Gray Large-footed MyotisDeep Cut85points
Gray Long-eared BatDeep Cut85points
Gray Mouse LemurDeep Cut85points
Gray MyotisDeep Cut85points
Gray Red-backed VoleDeep Cut85points
Gray Rice RatDeep Cut85points
Gray Sac-winged BatDeep Cut85points
Gray Short-tailed BatDeep Cut85points
Gray Short-tailed OpossumDeep Cut85points
Gray Slender LorisDeep Cut85points
Gray Slender OpossumDeep Cut85points
Gray Soft-haired MouseDeep Cut85points
Gray South American Spiny MouseDeep Cut85points
Gray Spiny MouseDeep Cut85points
Gray Tree RatDeep Cut85points
Gray Tube-nosed BatDeep Cut85points
Gray-bellied BrucieDeep Cut85points
Gray-bellied DunnartDeep Cut85points
Gray-bellied Grass MouseDeep Cut85points
Gray-bellied Moss MouseDeep Cut85points
Gray-bellied MouseDeep Cut85points
Gray-bellied Pencil-tailed Tree MouseDeep Cut85points
Gray-bellied Pouched MouseDeep Cut85points
Gray-bellied Rice RatDeep Cut85points
Gray-bellied Shrew-opossumDeep Cut85points
Gray-bellied Tree MouseDeep Cut85points
Gray-brown Mouse LemurDeep Cut85points
Gray-cheeked Flying SquirrelDeep Cut85points
Gray-collared ChipmunkDeep Cut85points
Gray-faced SengiDeep Cut85points
Gray-footed ChipmunkDeep Cut85points
Gray-headed Flying FoxDeep Cut85points
Gray-headed Giant Flying SquirrelDeep Cut85points
Gray-headed Thicket 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.