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
- Müller's Three-striped DasyureDeep Cut85points
- Multimammate mouseDeep Cut85points
- Munduruku MarmosetDeep Cut85points
- Munissi's White-toothed ShrewDeep Cut85points
- Murree VoleDeep Cut85points
- Muscat Mouse-tailed BatDeep Cut85points
- Muscular Broad-clawed ShrewDeep Cut85points
- Musky fruit batDeep Cut85points
- Musky Rat KangarooDeep Cut85points
- Musschenbroek's Sulawesi Spiny RatDeep Cut85points
- Musser's Bristly MouseDeep Cut85points
- Musser's Fish-eating RatDeep Cut85points
- Musser's Harvest MouseDeep Cut85points
- Musser's Montane RatDeep Cut85points
- Musso's Fish-eating RatDeep Cut85points
- Mustached monkeyDeep Cut85points
- Mutable ShrewDeep Cut85points
- Mutable Sun SquirrelDeep Cut85points
- Muya Valley VoleDeep Cut85points
- Muze Spiny MouseDeep Cut85points
- MyotisDeep Cut85points
- Mzab GundiDeep Cut85points
- NabarlekDeep Cut85points
- Nagaland ShrewDeep Cut85points
- Nagtglas's African DormouseDeep Cut85points
- Nairobi Grass RatDeep Cut85points
- Naked-backed fruit batDeep Cut85points
- Naked-eared DeermouseDeep Cut85points
- Naked-nosed Shrew TenrecDeep Cut85points
- Naked-rumped Tomb BatDeep Cut85points
- Naked-soled ConyratDeep Cut85points
- Naked-tailed armadilloDeep Cut85points
- Naked-tailed Brush-furred RatDeep Cut85points
- Naked-tailed White-toothed ShrewDeep Cut85points
- Namaqua Dune Mole-ratDeep Cut85points
- Namaqua Rock RatDeep Cut85points
- Namchabarwa Mountain VoleDeep Cut85points
- Namdapha Flying SquirrelDeep Cut85points
- Namib Long-eared SerotineDeep Cut85points
- Namib Round-eared SengiDeep Cut85points
- Namuli Horseshoe BatDeep Cut85points
- Napo SakiDeep Cut85points
- Napo Spiny-ratDeep Cut85points
- Narcondam White-toothed ShrewDeep Cut85points
- Narrow-faced Kangaroo RatDeep Cut85points
- Narrow-footed Bristly MouseDeep Cut85points
- Narrow-headed VoleDeep Cut85points
- Narrow-nasal Leaf-eared MouseDeep Cut85points
- Narrow-nosed Harvest MouseDeep Cut85points
- Narrow-nosed PlanigaleDeep 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.