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
- Prairie VoleDeep Cut85points
- Preble's ShrewDeep Cut85points
- Prehensile-tailed HutiaDeep Cut85points
- Prehensile-tailed porcupineDeep Cut85points
- Prehensile-tailed ratDeep Cut85points
- Prevost's SquirrelDeep Cut85points
- Pribilof Island ShrewDeep Cut85points
- Prince Bernhard's TitiDeep Cut85points
- Principal GerbilDeep Cut85points
- Principal Oldfield MouseDeep Cut85points
- Principe SerotineDeep Cut85points
- Proboscis BatDeep Cut85points
- Przewalski's JirdDeep Cut85points
- Przewalski's Steppe LemmingDeep Cut85points
- Puebla DeermouseDeep Cut85points
- Puebla Least ShrewDeep Cut85points
- Puerto Angel DeermouseDeep Cut85points
- Puerto Rican Common Mustached BatDeep Cut85points
- Pug-nosed Mastiff BatDeep Cut85points
- Pungent PipistrelleDeep Cut85points
- Puno Grass MouseDeep Cut85points
- Punta de Vacas Leaf-eared MouseDeep Cut85points
- Puntilla Tuco-tucoDeep Cut85points
- Purepechus DeermouseDeep Cut85points
- Pygmy Bamboo BatDeep Cut85points
- Pygmy Brown-toothed ShrewDeep Cut85points
- Pygmy flying squirrelDeep Cut85points
- Pygmy fruit batDeep Cut85points
- Pygmy Fruit-eating BatDeep Cut85points
- Pygmy GerbilDeep Cut85points
- Pygmy Harvest MouseDeep Cut85points
- Pygmy Long-eared BatDeep Cut85points
- Pygmy Long-fingered PossumDeep Cut85points
- Pygmy OpossumDeep Cut85points
- Pygmy raccoonDeep Cut85points
- Pygmy Ring-tailed PossumDeep Cut85points
- Pygmy rock mouseDeep Cut85points
- Pygmy Round-eared BatDeep Cut85points
- Pygmy Short-tailed OpossumDeep Cut85points
- Pygmy Shrew TenrecDeep Cut85points
- Pygmy Spotted SkunkDeep Cut85points
- Pygmy squirrelDeep Cut85points
- Pygmy Striped SquirrelDeep Cut85points
- Pygmy TarsierDeep Cut85points
- Pygmy Wood MouseDeep Cut85points
- Pyrenean DesmanDeep Cut85points
- Pyrenean Pine VoleDeep Cut85points
- Qaidam Three-toed JerboaDeep Cut85points
- Qinling ZokorDeep Cut85points
- Qionglai PikaDeep 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.