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
- Lesser Egyptian GerbilDeep Cut85points
- Lesser Epauletted Fruit BatDeep Cut85points
- Lesser Fat-tailed JerboaDeep Cut85points
- Lesser Forest ShrewDeep Cut85points
- Lesser funnel-eared batDeep Cut85points
- Lesser Ghost BatDeep Cut85points
- Lesser Golden-bellied Rice RatDeep Cut85points
- Lesser Gray-brown White-toothed ShrewDeep Cut85points
- Lesser GrisonDeep Cut85points
- Lesser Hairy-footed DunnartDeep Cut85points
- Lesser Hedgehog TenrecDeep Cut85points
- Lesser Horseshoe BatDeep Cut85points
- Lesser house batDeep Cut85points
- Lesser Iron-gray Dwarf LemurDeep Cut85points
- Lesser Large-clawed ShrewDeep Cut85points
- Lesser Large-footed MyotisDeep Cut85points
- Lesser Large-headed ShrewDeep Cut85points
- Lesser leaf-nosed batDeep Cut85points
- Lesser Long-eared BatDeep Cut85points
- Lesser Long-fingered BatDeep Cut85points
- Lesser Long-nosed BatDeep Cut85points
- Lesser Long-tailed BatDeep Cut85points
- Lesser Long-tailed Shrew TenrecDeep Cut85points
- Lesser Long-tongued Blossom BatDeep Cut85points
- Lesser Margareta RatDeep Cut85points
- Lesser Marmoset RatDeep Cut85points
- Lesser Mountain VoleDeep Cut85points
- Lesser mouse-deerDeep Cut85points
- Lesser Mouse-tailed BatDeep Cut85points
- Lesser Musky Fruit BatDeep Cut85points
- Lesser MyotisDeep Cut85points
- Lesser Naked BatDeep Cut85points
- Lesser Naked-backed Fruit BatDeep Cut85points
- Lesser needle-clawed galagoDeep Cut85points
- Lesser New Zealand Short-tailed BatDeep Cut85points
- Lesser Northern Free-tailed BatDeep Cut85points
- Lesser Papuan PipistrelleDeep Cut85points
- Lesser Pencil-tailed Tree MouseDeep Cut85points
- Lesser Peruvian Climbing RatDeep Cut85points
- Lesser Pygmy Flying SquirrelDeep Cut85points
- Lesser Red White-toothed ShrewDeep Cut85points
- Lesser Roundleaf BatDeep Cut85points
- Lesser Ryukyu White-toothed ShrewDeep Cut85points
- Lesser Sac-winged BatDeep Cut85points
- Lesser Sand RatDeep Cut85points
- Lesser Sheath-tailed BatDeep Cut85points
- Lesser Short-nosed Fruit BatDeep Cut85points
- Lesser Short-tailed GerbilDeep Cut85points
- Lesser Small-toothed RatDeep Cut85points
- Lesser Spear-nosed BatDeep 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.