Krillion Recorded answers
6,514 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 6,514
- Arabian JerboaDeep Cut85points
- Arabian JirdDeep Cut85points
- Arabian Mouse-tailed BatDeep Cut85points
- Arabian PipistrelleDeep Cut85points
- Arabian Sheath-tailed BatDeep Cut85points
- Arabian small-spotted genetDeep Cut85points
- Arabian Spiny MouseDeep Cut85points
- Arabian Trident Roundleaf BatDeep Cut85points
- Arabian White-toothed ShrewDeep Cut85points
- Araçá UacariDeep Cut85points
- Arata-Thomas Yellow-shouldered BatDeep Cut85points
- Araucaria Forest Tree MouseDeep Cut85points
- Araucaria Grass MouseDeep Cut85points
- Arboreal Brown-toothed ShrewDeep Cut85points
- Arboreal chinchilla ratDeep Cut85points
- Arctic Ground SquirrelDeep Cut85points
- Arctic ShrewDeep Cut85points
- Arcuate Horseshoe BatDeep Cut85points
- Arends's Golden MoleDeep Cut85points
- Arequipa Red BatDeep Cut85points
- Arequipa Vesper MouseDeep Cut85points
- Arfak Pygmy BandicootDeep Cut85points
- Arfak Ring-tailed PossumDeep Cut85points
- Arfak Water RatDeep Cut85points
- Argentine Fat-tailed OpossumDeep Cut85points
- Argentine SerotineDeep Cut85points
- Argentine Tuco-tucoDeep Cut85points
- Argentinean Swamp RatDeep Cut85points
- Arguedas's Grass MouseDeep Cut85points
- Arianus's New Guinea Mountain RatDeep Cut85points
- Aritana's Brown Four-eyed OpossumDeep Cut85points
- Arizona Cotton RatDeep Cut85points
- Arizona Gray SquirrelDeep Cut85points
- Arizona MyotisDeep Cut85points
- Arizona Pocket MouseDeep Cut85points
- Arizona ShrewDeep Cut85points
- Arlindo's Short-tailed OpossumDeep Cut85points
- Armand's ZokorDeep Cut85points
- Armandville's Giant Tree RatDeep Cut85points
- Armenian Birch MouseDeep Cut85points
- Armenian White-toothed ShrewDeep Cut85points
- Armién's MyotisDeep Cut85points
- Armored RatDeep Cut85points
- Arnhem Land Rock RatDeep Cut85points
- Arnhem Long-Eared BatDeep Cut85points
- Arnhem Plateau PlanigaleDeep Cut85points
- Arnhem Roundleaf BatDeep Cut85points
- Arnhem Sheath-tailed BatDeep Cut85points
- Aroa Small-eared ShrewDeep Cut85points
- Arrow Flying SquirrelDeep 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.