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
- Luzon Forest RatDeep Cut85points
- Luzon Pygmy Fruit BatDeep Cut85points
- Luzon Short-nosed RatDeep Cut85points
- Luzon Shrew MouseDeep Cut85points
- Luzon tree mouseDeep Cut85points
- Luzon Tube-nosed BatDeep Cut85points
- Luzon White-toothed ShrewDeep Cut85points
- Lyapunova’s Blind Mole-ratDeep Cut85points
- Lyle's Flying FoxDeep Cut85points
- Ma's Night MonkeyDeep Cut85points
- MacArthur's White-toothed ShrewDeep Cut85points
- MacConnell's BatDeep Cut85points
- Macedo Ruiz's Bristly MouseDeep Cut85points
- Macedonian MouseDeep Cut85points
- Machado's Butterfly BatDeep Cut85points
- Machangu's Brush-furred RatDeep Cut85points
- Machu Picchu Inca RatDeep Cut85points
- Mackenzie's White-toothed RatDeep Cut85points
- Mackilligin's GerbilDeep Cut85points
- Maclaud's Horseshoe BatDeep Cut85points
- Macleay's Forest WallabyDeep Cut85points
- Macleay's Mustached BatDeep Cut85points
- Macmillan's Thicket RatDeep Cut85points
- Macmillan's White-toothed ShrewDeep Cut85points
- Madagascan pygmy shrewDeep Cut85points
- Madagascan Straw-colored Fruit BatDeep Cut85points
- Madagascar Cryptic Roundleaf BatDeep Cut85points
- Madagascar Free-tailed BatDeep Cut85points
- Madagascar Giant Mastiff BatDeep Cut85points
- Madagascar Long-fingered BatDeep Cut85points
- Madagascar Sheath-tailed BatDeep Cut85points
- Madagascar trident batDeep Cut85points
- Madame Berthe's Mouse LemurDeep Cut85points
- Madeira PipistrelleDeep Cut85points
- Maderas del Carmen Rock DeermouseDeep Cut85points
- Madras TreeshrewDeep Cut85points
- Madura Horseshoe BatDeep Cut85points
- Maduran Roundleaf BatDeep Cut85points
- Maendeleo Horseshoe BatDeep Cut85points
- Magdalena Water RatDeep Cut85points
- Magdalena WoodratDeep Cut85points
- Magellanic Tuco-tucoDeep Cut85points
- Maggie Taylor's Roundleaf BatDeep Cut85points
- Maghreb Garden DormouseDeep Cut85points
- Maghreb MyotisDeep Cut85points
- Maghreb Roundleaf BatDeep Cut85points
- Maghrebian Long-fingered BatDeep Cut85points
- Mahafaly Long-fingered BatDeep Cut85points
- Mahale Wood MouseDeep Cut85points
- Mahali Mole-ratDeep 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.