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
- Rhoads's GerbilDeep Cut85points
- Rhoads's Oldfield MouseDeep Cut85points
- Riama Island Mosaic-tailed RatDeep Cut85points
- Ribboned Rope SquirrelDeep Cut85points
- Ricardo Ojeda's DeguDeep Cut85points
- Ricardo Palma's Rice RatDeep Cut85points
- Rice ratDeep Cut85points
- Rice tenrecDeep Cut85points
- Ricefield RatDeep Cut85points
- Richardson's Collared LemmingDeep Cut85points
- Richardson's Ground SquirrelDeep Cut85points
- Richardson's New Guinea Mountain RatDeep Cut85points
- Richmond's SquirrelDeep Cut85points
- Rickett's Big-footed MyotisDeep Cut85points
- Ride's Free-tailed BatDeep Cut85points
- Ridley's MyotisDeep Cut85points
- Ridley's Roundleaf BatDeep Cut85points
- Rigid-spined Atlantic Spiny-ratDeep Cut85points
- Ring-tailed GliderDeep Cut85points
- Ring-tailed Ground SquirrelDeep Cut85points
- Ring-tailed vontsiraDeep Cut85points
- Ringtail possumDeep Cut85points
- Rio Acarí MarmosetDeep Cut85points
- Rio Aripuanã MarmosetDeep Cut85points
- Río Beni TitiDeep Cut85points
- Rio de Janeiro Arboreal RatDeep Cut85points
- Rio de Janeiro Spiny-ratDeep Cut85points
- Río Gálvez Arboreal Rice RatDeep Cut85points
- Rio Grande Ground SquirrelDeep Cut85points
- Rio Grande Pocket GopherDeep Cut85points
- Rio Guaporé MouseDeep Cut85points
- Rio Juruá Collared TitiDeep Cut85points
- Río Magdalena Slender OpossumDeep Cut85points
- Rio Negro Bearded SakiDeep Cut85points
- Rio Negro Brush-tailed RatDeep Cut85points
- Rio Negro Silky AnteaterDeep Cut85points
- Rio Negro Tuco-tucoDeep Cut85points
- Riparian MyotisDeep Cut85points
- Riparian WoodratDeep Cut85points
- Riverine RabbitDeep Cut85points
- Riverine Soft-furred MouseDeep Cut85points
- Roach's Mouse-tailed DormouseDeep Cut85points
- Robbins's TaterilDeep Cut85points
- Robbins's Yellow BatDeep Cut85points
- Robert's Arboreal Rice RatDeep Cut85points
- Robert's Snow VoleDeep Cut85points
- Robert's Spiny-ratDeep Cut85points
- Roberts's Flat-headed BatDeep Cut85points
- Roberts's SerotineDeep Cut85points
- Roberts's Shaggy RatDeep 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.