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
- Long-footed TreeshrewDeep Cut85points
- Long-footed White-toothed ShrewDeep Cut85points
- Long-furred Arboreal Rice RatDeep Cut85points
- Long-furred Atlantic Tree-ratDeep Cut85points
- Long-haired Fruit BatDeep Cut85points
- Long-haired Soft-haired MouseDeep Cut85points
- Long-haired Spiny Tree-ratDeep Cut85points
- Long-legged BatDeep Cut85points
- Long-legged MyotisDeep Cut85points
- Long-nosed BandicootDeep Cut85points
- Long-nosed batDeep Cut85points
- Long-nosed Luzon Forest MouseDeep Cut85points
- Long-nosed MoleDeep Cut85points
- Long-nosed MongooseDeep Cut85points
- Long-nosed Mosaic-tailed RatDeep Cut85points
- Long-nosed PotorooDeep Cut85points
- Long-nosed Rice RatDeep Cut85points
- Long-nosed Short-tailed OpossumDeep Cut85points
- Long-nosed Shrew-opossumDeep Cut85points
- Long-nosed Spiny BandicootDeep Cut85points
- Long-snouted BatDeep Cut85points
- Long-tailed Armored Tree-ratDeep Cut85points
- Long-tailed BandicootDeep Cut85points
- Long-tailed Birch MouseDeep Cut85points
- Long-tailed Brown-toothed ShrewDeep Cut85points
- Long-tailed Climbing RatDeep Cut85points
- Long-tailed dunnartDeep Cut85points
- Long-tailed Ground SquirrelDeep Cut85points
- Long-tailed Lesser HamsterDeep Cut85points
- Long-tailed MarmotDeep Cut85points
- Long-tailed Moss MouseDeep Cut85points
- Long-tailed MouseDeep Cut85points
- Long-tailed Mouse ShrewDeep Cut85points
- Long-tailed MyotisDeep Cut85points
- Long-tailed Oldfield MouseDeep Cut85points
- Long-tailed Pocket MouseDeep Cut85points
- Long-tailed porcupineDeep Cut85points
- Long-tailed Pygmy PossumDeep Cut85points
- Long-tailed Pygmy Rice RatDeep Cut85points
- Long-tailed Salonga White-toothed ShrewDeep Cut85points
- Long-tailed SerotineDeep Cut85points
- Long-tailed Singing MouseDeep Cut85points
- Long-tailed Spiny-ratDeep Cut85points
- Long-tailed Sulawesian Shrew RatDeep Cut85points
- Long-tailed Talaud Mosaic-tailed RatDeep Cut85points
- Long-tailed Tuco-tucoDeep Cut85points
- Long-tailed Vesper MouseDeep Cut85points
- Long-tailed VoleDeep Cut85points
- Long-tailed White-toothed ShrewDeep Cut85points
- Long-toed MyotisDeep 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.