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
- Little Free-tailed BatDeep Cut85points
- Little fruit batDeep Cut85points
- Little Fruit-eating BatDeep Cut85points
- Little Golden-mantled Flying FoxDeep Cut85points
- Little Ground SquirrelDeep Cut85points
- Little Indian Field MouseDeep Cut85points
- Little Indochinese Field RatDeep Cut85points
- Little Japanese Horseshoe BatDeep Cut85points
- Little Long-fingered BatDeep Cut85points
- Little Long-tailed DunnartDeep Cut85points
- Little Nepalese Horseshoe BatDeep Cut85points
- Little Pied BatDeep Cut85points
- Little PlanigaleDeep Cut85points
- Little Pocket MouseDeep Cut85points
- Little Pygmy PossumDeep Cut85points
- Little Red Flying FoxDeep Cut85points
- Little Tube-nosed BatDeep Cut85points
- Little White-shouldered BatDeep Cut85points
- Little Woolly Mouse OpossumDeep Cut85points
- Little yellow-eared batDeep Cut85points
- Little Yellow-shouldered BatDeep Cut85points
- Little-footed White-toothed ShrewDeep Cut85points
- Littledale's Whistling RatDeep Cut85points
- Livingstone's Flying FoxDeep Cut85points
- Livingstone's Mole-ratDeep Cut85points
- Livingstone's Yellow BatDeep Cut85points
- Llano Pocket GopherDeep Cut85points
- Llanos Long-nosed ArmadilloDeep Cut85points
- Lobéké Butterfly BatDeep Cut85points
- Lodgepole ChipmunkDeep Cut85points
- Lofty PericoteDeep Cut85points
- Lombok Flying FoxDeep Cut85points
- Lompobatang Hill RatDeep Cut85points
- Long-clawed Ground SquirrelDeep Cut85points
- Long-clawed Mole VoleDeep Cut85points
- Long-clawed ShrewDeep Cut85points
- Long-crested Free-tailed BatDeep Cut85points
- Long-eared ChipmunkDeep Cut85points
- Long-eared Desert MouseDeep Cut85points
- Long-eared GymnureDeep Cut85points
- Long-eared hedgehogDeep Cut85points
- Long-eared JerboaDeep Cut85points
- Long-eared KultarrDeep Cut85points
- Long-eared MyotisDeep Cut85points
- Long-eared Pygmy AnomalureDeep Cut85points
- Long-fingered MyotisDeep Cut85points
- Long-fingered triokDeep Cut85points
- Long-footed PotorooDeep Cut85points
- Long-footed ratDeep Cut85points
- Long-footed Tree 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.