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
- Nikolaus's African Climbing MouseDeep Cut85points
- Nilgiri Highland ShrewDeep Cut85points
- Nilgiri Long-tailed Climbing MouseDeep Cut85points
- Nilgiri MartenDeep Cut85points
- Nimba Giant White-toothed ShrewDeep Cut85points
- Nimba Long-fingered BatDeep Cut85points
- Nimba MyotisDeep Cut85points
- Nimba Otter-shrewDeep Cut85points
- Nimba White-toothed ShrewDeep Cut85points
- Nimble-footed DeermouseDeep Cut85points
- Nimble-footed Rice RatDeep Cut85points
- NingauiDeep Cut85points
- Ningbing PseudantechinusDeep Cut85points
- Ningshan Shrew MoleDeep Cut85points
- Ningxia Three-toed JerboaDeep Cut85points
- Niobe Ground SquirrelDeep Cut85points
- Niobe's White-toothed ShrewDeep Cut85points
- Noack's African DormouseDeep Cut85points
- Noack's Roundleaf BatDeep Cut85points
- Noble Brush-tailed MouseDeep Cut85points
- NoctuleDeep Cut85points
- Nordmann's Birch MouseDeep Cut85points
- North African GerbilDeep Cut85points
- North African HedgehogDeep Cut85points
- North African SengiDeep Cut85points
- North African White-toothed ShrewDeep Cut85points
- North American Water VoleDeep Cut85points
- North Andean Soft-haired MouseDeep Cut85points
- North Moluccan Flying FoxDeep Cut85points
- North Peninsula White-toothed ShrewDeep Cut85points
- North Serbian Blind Mole-ratDeep Cut85points
- North Western Rift Brush-furred RatDeep Cut85points
- Northeast African Spiny MouseDeep Cut85points
- Northeastern Marsh Rice RatDeep Cut85points
- Northeastern Peninsula Hill RatDeep Cut85points
- Northeastern Woolly Mouse OpossumDeep Cut85points
- Northeastern Xanthurus RatDeep Cut85points
- Northern AkodontDeep Cut85points
- Northern Amazon Red SquirrelDeep Cut85points
- Northern Andean Water MouseDeep Cut85points
- Northern Arboreal MouseDeep Cut85points
- Northern Baja DeermouseDeep Cut85points
- Northern Bamboo LemurDeep Cut85points
- Northern batDeep Cut85points
- Northern BettongDeep Cut85points
- Northern Big-eared BatDeep Cut85points
- Northern Birch MouseDeep Cut85points
- Northern Black Giant SquirrelDeep Cut85points
- Northern Black Mastiff BatDeep Cut85points
- Northern Black-eared OpossumDeep 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.