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
- Mediterranean Long-eared BatDeep Cut85points
- Mediterranean Pine VoleDeep Cut85points
- Mediterranean Water ShrewDeep Cut85points
- Medium-tailed Rice RatDeep Cut85points
- Medog Large-clawed ShrewDeep Cut85points
- Medog MoleDeep Cut85points
- Medog Mountain VoleDeep Cut85points
- Medog Tube-nosed BatDeep Cut85points
- Medog White-toothed ShrewDeep Cut85points
- Meester's Mouse ShrewDeep Cut85points
- Meghalaya Thick-thumbed BatDeep Cut85points
- Mehely's Blind Mole-ratDeep Cut85points
- Mehely's Horseshoe BatDeep Cut85points
- Meigu Birch MouseDeep Cut85points
- Meigu Climbing MouseDeep Cut85points
- Mekong White-bellied RatDeep Cut85points
- Melck's house batDeep Cut85points
- Melin's Mastiff BatDeep Cut85points
- Melissa's Yellow-eared BatDeep Cut85points
- Meller's MongooseDeep Cut85points
- Menangesha Grass RatDeep Cut85points
- Menchu's Yellow BatDeep Cut85points
- Mendoza Tuco-tucoDeep Cut85points
- Mendozan Chinchilla RatDeep Cut85points
- Mentawai Archipelago Spiny RatDeep Cut85points
- Mentawai Flying SquirrelDeep Cut85points
- Mentawai Long-tailed Giant RatDeep Cut85points
- Mentawai RatDeep Cut85points
- Mentawai SquirrelDeep Cut85points
- Mentawai Three-striped SquirrelDeep Cut85points
- Menzbier's MarmotDeep Cut85points
- Menzies's Spiny BandicootDeep Cut85points
- Merida Montane MouseDeep Cut85points
- Merida Rice RatDeep Cut85points
- Merida Small-eared ShrewDeep Cut85points
- Meridional SerotineDeep Cut85points
- Merriam's ChipmunkDeep Cut85points
- Merriam's DeermouseDeep Cut85points
- Merriam's Ground SquirrelDeep Cut85points
- Merriam's Kangaroo RatDeep Cut85points
- Merriam's Long-tongued BatDeep Cut85points
- Merriam's Pocket GopherDeep Cut85points
- Merriam's Pocket MouseDeep Cut85points
- Merriam's ShrewDeep Cut85points
- Merriam's Small-eared ShrewDeep Cut85points
- Mesic Four-striped Grass RatDeep Cut85points
- Mesoamerican Common Mustached BatDeep Cut85points
- Mesoamerican Round-eared BatDeep Cut85points
- Mesopotamian Fat-tailed OpossumDeep Cut85points
- Mesopotamian GerbilDeep 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.