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
- Mexican AgoutiDeep Cut85points
- Mexican Big-eared BatDeep Cut85points
- Mexican Big-eyed BatDeep Cut85points
- Mexican Black MyotisDeep Cut85points
- Mexican Common Mustached BatDeep Cut85points
- Mexican CottontailDeep Cut85points
- Mexican DeermouseDeep Cut85points
- Mexican Dog-faced BatDeep Cut85points
- Mexican Fox SquirrelDeep Cut85points
- Mexican Funnel-eared BatDeep Cut85points
- Mexican Ground SquirrelDeep Cut85points
- Mexican Hairy PorcupineDeep Cut85points
- Mexican Harvest MouseDeep Cut85points
- Mexican Large-toothed ShrewDeep Cut85points
- Mexican Least ShrewDeep Cut85points
- Mexican Long-nosed ArmadilloDeep Cut85points
- Mexican Long-tailed ShrewDeep Cut85points
- Mexican Long-tongued BatDeep Cut85points
- Mexican Marsh Rice RatDeep Cut85points
- Mexican MoleDeep Cut85points
- Mexican Mouse OpossumDeep Cut85points
- Mexican Prairie DogDeep Cut85points
- Mexican Pygmy MouseDeep Cut85points
- Mexican ShrewDeep Cut85points
- Mexican Spiny Pocket MouseDeep Cut85points
- Mexican VoleDeep Cut85points
- Mexican Water MouseDeep Cut85points
- Mexican WoodratDeep Cut85points
- Meyer's Giant RatDeep Cut85points
- Miahuatlan Cotton RatDeep Cut85points
- Michaelsen's Long-clawed MouseDeep Cut85points
- Michoacan DeermouseDeep Cut85points
- Michoacan Pocket GopherDeep Cut85points
- Micklem's Mole-ratDeep Cut85points
- MicrobatDeep Cut85points
- Midas Free-tailed BatDeep Cut85points
- Midas TamarinDeep Cut85points
- Middendorff's VoleDeep Cut85points
- Middle Shaggy RatDeep Cut85points
- Miguel Christie's Tuco-tucoDeep Cut85points
- Milin Tube-nosed BatDeep Cut85points
- Millard's RatDeep Cut85points
- Miller's Dog-faced BatDeep Cut85points
- Miller's Long-tongued BatDeep Cut85points
- Miller's Mastiff BatDeep Cut85points
- Miller's SakiDeep Cut85points
- Millet's Long-tailed Giant RatDeep Cut85points
- Milne-Edwards's Sportive LemurDeep Cut85points
- Milne-Edwards's Tufted-tail RatDeep Cut85points
- Milton's TitiDeep 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.