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
- Leander's Water ShrewDeep Cut85points
- Least Big-eared BatDeep Cut85points
- Least ChipmunkDeep Cut85points
- Least Dwarf ShrewDeep Cut85points
- Least GerbilDeep Cut85points
- Least Groove-toothed Swamp RatDeep Cut85points
- Least Horseshoe BatDeep Cut85points
- Least Little Mastiff BatDeep Cut85points
- Least Long-fingered BatDeep Cut85points
- Least Philippine Forest MouseDeep Cut85points
- Least PipistrelleDeep Cut85points
- Least Pygmy SquirrelDeep Cut85points
- Least Roundleaf BatDeep Cut85points
- Least shrewDeep Cut85points
- Least Shrew TenrecDeep Cut85points
- Least Soft-furred MouseDeep Cut85points
- Least White-bellied RatDeep Cut85points
- Least Woolly BatDeep Cut85points
- Least Yellow BatDeep Cut85points
- Ledeci's Forest MouseDeep Cut85points
- Legbo Valley PikaDeep Cut85points
- Leighton's OyanDeep Cut85points
- Leila Pessôa’s Bristly MouseDeep Cut85points
- Leisler's NoctuleDeep Cut85points
- Lemming Mountain VoleDeep Cut85points
- Lemurine Night MonkeyDeep Cut85points
- Lemuroid Ring-tailed PossumDeep Cut85points
- Lenis Woolly BatDeep Cut85points
- Leonardo Shrew MouseDeep Cut85points
- Leschenault's RousetteDeep Cut85points
- Lessa's Tuco-tucoDeep Cut85points
- Lesser AnomalureDeep Cut85points
- Lesser Antillean Funnel-eared BatDeep Cut85points
- Lesser Asian False-vampireDeep Cut85points
- Lesser Asian Yellow BatDeep Cut85points
- Lesser bamboo lemurDeep Cut85points
- Lesser Bamboo RatDeep Cut85points
- Lesser Bandicoot RatDeep Cut85points
- Lesser Black-footed White-toothed ShrewDeep Cut85points
- Lesser Blind Mole-ratDeep Cut85points
- Lesser Brown Horseshoe BatDeep Cut85points
- Lesser Bulldog BatDeep Cut85points
- Lesser bushbabyDeep Cut85points
- Lesser Cane RatDeep Cut85points
- Lesser Colombian Climbing RatDeep Cut85points
- Lesser Congo ShrewDeep Cut85points
- Lesser DasyureDeep Cut85points
- Lesser Dawn BatDeep Cut85points
- Lesser Dog-like BatDeep Cut85points
- Lesser Dwarf ShrewDeep 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.