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
- Large Fruit-eating BatDeep Cut85points
- Large Hairy ArmadilloDeep Cut85points
- Large Japanese Field MouseDeep Cut85points
- Large Long-fingered BatDeep Cut85points
- Large Mindanao Roundleaf BatDeep Cut85points
- Large Mindoro Forest MouseDeep Cut85points
- Large MyotisDeep Cut85points
- Large naked-soled gerbilDeep Cut85points
- Large New Guinea Spiny RatDeep Cut85points
- Large Oriental voleDeep Cut85points
- Large rock ratDeep Cut85points
- Large Rufous Horseshoe BatDeep Cut85points
- Large Short-tailed RatDeep Cut85points
- Large Shrew MoleDeep Cut85points
- Large Slit-faced BatDeep Cut85points
- Large TreeshrewDeep Cut85points
- Large Vesper MouseDeep Cut85points
- Large vlei ratDeep Cut85points
- Large White-toothed ShrewDeep Cut85points
- Large-eared Field MouseDeep Cut85points
- Large-eared Giant Mastiff BatDeep Cut85points
- Large-eared Gray ShrewDeep Cut85points
- Large-eared Horseshoe BatDeep Cut85points
- Large-eared Oldfield MouseDeep Cut85points
- Large-eared Pied BatDeep Cut85points
- Large-eared PikaDeep Cut85points
- Large-eared Roundleaf BatDeep Cut85points
- Large-eared Sheath-tailed BatDeep Cut85points
- Large-eared Slit-faced BatDeep Cut85points
- Large-eared TenrecDeep Cut85points
- Large-eared VoleDeep Cut85points
- Large-headed SerotineDeep Cut85points
- Large-headed White-toothed ShrewDeep Cut85points
- Large-toothed Ferret-badgerDeep Cut85points
- Large-toothed Hairy-tailed RatDeep Cut85points
- Large-toothed shrewDeep Cut85points
- Lariang TarsierDeep Cut85points
- Lataste's GerbilDeep Cut85points
- Latona's White-toothed ShrewDeep Cut85points
- Laurie's Moss MouseDeep Cut85points
- LaVal's Disk-winged BatDeep Cut85points
- LaVal's MyotisDeep Cut85points
- Lavasoa Dwarf LemurDeep Cut85points
- Laxmann's ShrewDeep Cut85points
- Layard's Palm SquirrelDeep Cut85points
- Lazistan Snow VoleDeep Cut85points
- Lazy Tuco-tucoDeep Cut85points
- Le Sueur's Wing-gland BatDeep Cut85points
- Leadbeater's PossumDeep Cut85points
- Leaf-eared 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.