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 Striped ShrewDeep Cut85points
- Lesser Taiwanese Brown-toothed ShrewDeep Cut85points
- Lesser Tree MouseDeep Cut85points
- Lesser TreeshrewDeep Cut85points
- Lesser tube-nosed batDeep Cut85points
- Lesser Tube-nosed Fruit BatDeep Cut85points
- Lesser Tufted-tail RatDeep Cut85points
- Lesser weasel lemurDeep Cut85points
- Lesser White-toothed ShrewDeep Cut85points
- Lesser Wood MouseDeep Cut85points
- Lesser Woolly BatDeep Cut85points
- Lesser Woolly Horseshoe BatDeep Cut85points
- Lesser yellow batDeep Cut85points
- Lesser Yellow-shouldered BatDeep Cut85points
- Lesson's Saddle-back TamarinDeep Cut85points
- Leuser GymnureDeep Cut85points
- Levant MoleDeep Cut85points
- Levant VoleDeep Cut85points
- Levantine Blind Mole-ratDeep Cut85points
- Lewis's Tuco-tucoDeep Cut85points
- Lhozhag Mountain VoleDeep Cut85points
- Liangshan VoleDeep Cut85points
- Liao Rui's Mountain VoleDeep Cut85points
- Liberian Forest Striped MouseDeep Cut85points
- Liberian MongooseDeep Cut85points
- Libo Tube-nosed BatDeep Cut85points
- Libyan JirdDeep Cut85points
- Lichtenstein's JerboaDeep Cut85points
- Liechtenstein's Pine VoleDeep Cut85points
- Light-winged Lesser House BatDeep Cut85points
- Lillo's AkodontDeep Cut85points
- Lima Leaf-eared MouseDeep Cut85points
- Limestone Tufted-tail RatDeep Cut85points
- Limestone White-bellied RatDeep Cut85points
- Limnos Blind Mole-ratDeep Cut85points
- Lindbergh's Grass MouseDeep Cut85points
- Lindbergh's Rice RatDeep Cut85points
- Linduan RousetteDeep Cut85points
- Linnaeus's Mouse OpossumDeep Cut85points
- LinsangDeep Cut85points
- Linzhi Mountain VoleDeep Cut85points
- Little Big-eared BatDeep Cut85points
- Little Big-eyed BatDeep Cut85points
- Little Black SerotineDeep Cut85points
- Little Broad-nosed BatDeep Cut85points
- Little Burmese Field MouseDeep Cut85points
- Little Collared Fruit BatDeep Cut85points
- Little Desert Pocket MouseDeep Cut85points
- Little Epauletted Fruit BatDeep Cut85points
- Little Forest 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.