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
- KwaZulu Natal Vlei RatDeep Cut85points
- Kyrgyzstan Horseshoe BatDeep Cut85points
- La Guarda DeermouseDeep Cut85points
- La Pera Climbing RatDeep Cut85points
- La Touche's Free-tailed BatDeep Cut85points
- La Touche's MoleDeep Cut85points
- Labo Shrew RatDeep Cut85points
- Lac Alaotra Bamboo LemurDeep Cut85points
- Lacandona Small-eared ShrewDeep Cut85points
- Lachaise's African Climbing MouseDeep Cut85points
- Lacustrine VoleDeep Cut85points
- Ladak PikaDeep Cut85points
- Ladakh Tibetan HamsterDeep Cut85points
- Ladew's Oldfield MouseDeep Cut85points
- Lady Burton's Rope SquirrelDeep Cut85points
- Lagiglia's Marsh RatDeep Cut85points
- Lago Blanco Tuco-tucoDeep Cut85points
- Lagoa Santa Pink-lipped MouseDeep Cut85points
- Lagoa Santa PunareDeep Cut85points
- Lagos SerotineDeep Cut85points
- Laguna Terraplén Tuco-tucoDeep Cut85points
- Lake Baikal Mountain VoleDeep Cut85points
- Lake Baptista TitiDeep Cut85points
- Lake Chad TaterilDeep Cut85points
- Lake Victoria Groove-toothed Swamp RatDeep Cut85points
- Lamberton's Forest RatDeep Cut85points
- Lami Tuco-tucoDeep Cut85points
- Lamotte's Roundleaf BatDeep Cut85points
- Lamotte's White-toothed ShrewDeep Cut85points
- Lampobatang Sulawesi RatDeep Cut85points
- Lamulate shrewDeep Cut85points
- Lander's Horseshoe BatDeep Cut85points
- Langbian Tree RatDeep Cut85points
- Langer's SerotineDeep Cut85points
- Langguth's Rice RatDeep Cut85points
- Lanza's PipistrelleDeep Cut85points
- Laotian Flying SquirrelDeep Cut85points
- Laotian Roundleaf BatDeep Cut85points
- Lappet-eared Free-tailed BatDeep Cut85points
- Lara MyotisDeep Cut85points
- Large Aden GerbilDeep Cut85points
- Large Asian Roundleaf BatDeep Cut85points
- Large Bristly MouseDeep Cut85points
- Large Cordillera Shrew MouseDeep Cut85points
- Large DeermouseDeep Cut85points
- Large False SerotineDeep Cut85points
- Large Fernandina Galapagos MouseDeep Cut85points
- Large Flying FoxDeep Cut85points
- Large Forest BatDeep Cut85points
- Large Forest 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.