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
- Masked palm civetDeep Cut85points
- Masked Ring-tailed PossumDeep Cut85points
- Masked ShrewDeep Cut85points
- Masked TitiDeep Cut85points
- Masked white-tailed ratDeep Cut85points
- Masoala Fork-marked LemurDeep Cut85points
- Masoala Sportive LemurDeep Cut85points
- Masoala Woolly LemurDeep Cut85points
- Massoia's Lutrine OpossumDeep Cut85points
- Master Leaf-eared MouseDeep Cut85points
- Mastiff BatDeep Cut85points
- Matabeleland Mole-ratDeep Cut85points
- Matapalo Broad-nosed BatDeep Cut85points
- Mataquescuintla Broad-clawed ShrewDeep Cut85points
- Mato Grosso Arboreal Rice RatDeep Cut85points
- Mato Grosso Dog-faced BatDeep Cut85points
- Mato Grosso Pygmy Rice RatDeep Cut85points
- Matses Arboreal Rice RatDeep Cut85points
- Matses Big-eared BatDeep Cut85points
- Mattevi's Vesper MouseDeep Cut85points
- Matthey's MouseDeep Cut85points
- Maués MarmosetDeep Cut85points
- Maule Tuco-tucoDeep Cut85points
- Mauritanian GerbilDeep Cut85points
- Mauritanian White-toothed ShrewDeep Cut85points
- Mauritian Little Mastiff BatDeep Cut85points
- Mauritian Tomb BatDeep Cut85points
- Max's Short-tailed GymnureDeep Cut85points
- Maximowicz's VoleDeep Cut85points
- Mayan DeermouseDeep Cut85points
- Mayor's MouseDeep Cut85points
- Mbam Minkom SerotineDeep Cut85points
- McCarthy's ShrewDeep Cut85points
- McConnell's Rice RatDeep Cut85points
- McConnell's Tepui Climbing RatDeep Cut85points
- McIlhenny's Four-eyed OpossumDeep Cut85points
- McIntyre's Horseshoe BatDeep Cut85points
- Mduma's White-toothed ShrewDeep Cut85points
- Meadow jumping mouseDeep Cut85points
- Mearns' Grass RatDeep Cut85points
- Mearns's flying foxDeep Cut85points
- Mearns's squirrelDeep Cut85points
- Mebo Giant Flying SquirrelDeep Cut85points
- Mechow's Mole-ratDeep Cut85points
- Medabo White-toothed ShrewDeep Cut85points
- Medellín Small-eared ShrewDeep Cut85points
- Medem's TitiDeep Cut85points
- Mediterranean Field VoleDeep Cut85points
- Mediterranean HareDeep Cut85points
- Mediterranean Horseshoe 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.