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
- Isarog Striped Shrew RatDeep Cut85points
- Island Flying FoxDeep Cut85points
- Island Tube-nosed Fruit BatDeep Cut85points
- Ismael's Broad-nosed BatDeep Cut85points
- Isthmian Dwarf SquirrelDeep Cut85points
- Italian Water VoleDeep Cut85points
- Itapevi HocicudoDeep Cut85points
- Ivory Coast Defua RatDeep Cut85points
- Ivory Coast White-toothed ShrewDeep Cut85points
- Ixtlán DeermouseDeep Cut85points
- Ixtlán ShrewDeep Cut85points
- Izecksohn's MyotisDeep Cut85points
- Jackass White-toothed ShrewDeep Cut85points
- Jackson's Fat MouseDeep Cut85points
- Jackson's MongooseDeep Cut85points
- Jackson's Shrew-like MouseDeep Cut85points
- Jackson's Soft-furred MouseDeep Cut85points
- Jackson's White-toothed ShrewDeep Cut85points
- Jacobina PunareDeep Cut85points
- Jaintia Tube-nosed BatDeep Cut85points
- Jalapan VoleDeep Cut85points
- Jaliscan Spiny Pocket MouseDeep Cut85points
- Jalisco DeermouseDeep Cut85points
- Jalisco Harvest MouseDeep Cut85points
- Jalisco ShrewDeep Cut85points
- Jamaican Fig-eating BatDeep Cut85points
- Jamaican Flower BatDeep Cut85points
- Jamaican Fruit-eating BatDeep Cut85points
- Jamaican Greater Funnel-eared BatDeep Cut85points
- Jamaican HutiaDeep Cut85points
- Jamaican Long-tongued BatDeep Cut85points
- Jamaican Red BatDeep Cut85points
- Jamari Arboreal Rice RatDeep Cut85points
- James' Sportive LemurDeep Cut85points
- James's GerbilDeep Cut85points
- Jameson's Red Rock HareDeep Cut85points
- Jansa's Woolly Mouse OpossumDeep Cut85points
- Japanese BarbastelleDeep Cut85points
- Japanese DormouseDeep Cut85points
- Japanese Flying SquirrelDeep Cut85points
- Japanese Giant Flying SquirrelDeep Cut85points
- Japanese Grass VoleDeep Cut85points
- Japanese HareDeep Cut85points
- Japanese Long-eared BatDeep Cut85points
- Japanese MartenDeep Cut85points
- Japanese moleDeep Cut85points
- Japanese Mountain MoleDeep Cut85points
- Japanese NoctuleDeep Cut85points
- Japanese PipistrelleDeep Cut85points
- Japanese SerotineDeep 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.