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
- Nusatenggara Short-nosed Fruit BatDeep Cut85points
- Nushan Climbing MouseDeep Cut85points
- Nut-colored Yellow BatDeep Cut85points
- Nyalam Mountain VoleDeep Cut85points
- Nyanza SerotineDeep Cut85points
- Nyika African Climbing MouseDeep Cut85points
- Nyika Mouse ShrewDeep Cut85points
- Nyika Rock RatDeep Cut85points
- Nyiro White-toothed ShrewDeep Cut85points
- O'Connell's Spiny-ratDeep Cut85points
- Oaxacan Big-toothed DeermouseDeep Cut85points
- Oaxacan Broad-clawed ShrewDeep Cut85points
- Oaxacan Highlands Harvest MouseDeep Cut85points
- Oaxacan Rock DeermouseDeep Cut85points
- Ob LemmingDeep Cut85points
- Obi CuscusDeep Cut85points
- Obi Island Mosaic-tailed RatDeep Cut85points
- Obi Island RatDeep Cut85points
- Occidental GerbilDeep Cut85points
- Ochoa-Graterol's Climbing RatDeep Cut85points
- Ochraceous-bellied Bornean Spiny RatDeep Cut85points
- Ochre Bush SquirrelDeep Cut85points
- Ochre Mole-ratDeep Cut85points
- Ogilvie Mountains Collared LemmingDeep Cut85points
- Ognev's Long-eared BatDeep Cut85points
- Ognev's MoleDeep Cut85points
- Ognev's Mouse-tailed DormouseDeep Cut85points
- Ognev's SerotineDeep Cut85points
- Ohia RatDeep Cut85points
- Ojasti's Slender OpossumDeep Cut85points
- Okanagan Flying SquirrelDeep Cut85points
- Okinawa Horseshoe BatDeep Cut85points
- Okinawa Island Spiny RatDeep Cut85points
- Oku Mouse ShrewDeep Cut85points
- Olalla RatDeep Cut85points
- Olallas' TitiDeep Cut85points
- Oldfield DeermouseDeep Cut85points
- OlingoDeep Cut85points
- Olive colobusDeep Cut85points
- Olive Soft-haired MouseDeep Cut85points
- Olive-backed Pocket MouseDeep Cut85points
- Olrog's Chaco MouseDeep Cut85points
- Oltenia Blind Mole-ratDeep Cut85points
- Olympic ShrewDeep Cut85points
- Omilteme CottontailDeep Cut85points
- Omoa Broad-clawed ShrewDeep Cut85points
- Ontong Java Flying FoxDeep Cut85points
- Ooldea DunnartDeep Cut85points
- Orange AgoutiDeep Cut85points
- Orange Diamond-faced BatDeep 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.