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
- Moluccan Prehensile-tailed RatDeep Cut85points
- Mona MonkeyDeep Cut85points
- Monard's African Climbing MouseDeep Cut85points
- Monard's African DormouseDeep Cut85points
- Monckton's Mosaic-tailed RatDeep Cut85points
- Mongalla Free-tailed BatDeep Cut85points
- Mongolian HamsterDeep Cut85points
- Mongolian Mountain VoleDeep Cut85points
- Mongolian Three-toed JerboaDeep Cut85points
- Mongolian VoleDeep Cut85points
- Mongoose lemurDeep Cut85points
- Monito del monteDeep Cut85points
- MonjonDeep Cut85points
- Monk SakiDeep Cut85points
- Monkey-faced batDeep Cut85points
- Monserrat Island DeermouseDeep Cut85points
- Montagne d'Ambre Dwarf LemurDeep Cut85points
- Montagne d'Ambre Fork-marked LemurDeep Cut85points
- Montagne d'Ambre Long-fingered BatDeep Cut85points
- Montagne d'Ambre Mouse LemurDeep Cut85points
- Montane African Climbing MouseDeep Cut85points
- Montane Atlantic Forest RatDeep Cut85points
- Montane Bamboo RatDeep Cut85points
- Montane Blind Mole-ratDeep Cut85points
- Montane Bornean White-bellied RatDeep Cut85points
- Montane Cotton RatDeep Cut85points
- Montane Fish-eating RatDeep Cut85points
- Montane Grass MouseDeep Cut85points
- Montane Guinea PigDeep Cut85points
- Montane Hill RatDeep Cut85points
- Montane Javan White-bellied RatDeep Cut85points
- Montane Long-nosed SquirrelDeep Cut85points
- Montane Monkey-faced Fruit BatDeep Cut85points
- Montane Mouse ShrewDeep Cut85points
- Montane MyotisDeep Cut85points
- Montane Oldfield MouseDeep Cut85points
- Montane Red-rumped Tree MouseDeep Cut85points
- Montane shrewDeep Cut85points
- Montane Shrew TenrecDeep Cut85points
- Montane Soft-furred Mosaic-tailed RatDeep Cut85points
- Montane Striped Shrew RatDeep Cut85points
- Montane Sumatran White-bellied RatDeep Cut85points
- Montane VoleDeep Cut85points
- Montane White-toothed ShrewDeep Cut85points
- Montane Wood MouseDeep Cut85points
- Monte Gerbil MouseDeep Cut85points
- Monte Grass MouseDeep Cut85points
- Monte Hermoso Tuco-tucoDeep Cut85points
- Monte Tuco-tucoDeep Cut85points
- Montecristo Broad-clawed ShrewDeep 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.