Krillion Recorded answers
395 recorded answers
How to approach it
Work the alphabet rather than memory alone. Build a mental list of animal groups with a large inventory of short compound names, then test each candidate against the spelling rule before asking whether it is a genuine animal at all. A useful second pass is to take common prefixes and suffixes from natural history writing and recombine them, since many accepted names are built from a colour or a body part plus a plain second element. Keep a tally as you go so you do not circle back to the same few obvious creatures, and deliberately visit the specialist vocabulary of angling, falconry, entomology and livestock breeding, where the oddest single-word names survive.
Get a hint
Start with the broad families where short, punchy names dominate: birds, fish, insects and small mammals supply far more candidates than large land animals do.
A little more
Many of these names are compound words, so combine a colour, body part or habitat word with a second element and check whether the joined form is a recognised animal name.
One step further
Push past the obvious everyday creatures into regional, dialect and specialist names: game birds, food fish, dog breeds and invertebrates reward a deep vocabulary more than common pets do.
Reveal answers 395
- DouckerDeep Cut85points
- DuckclamDeep Cut85points
- DunnockDeep Cut85points
- DunpickleDeep Cut85points
- EggcockleDeep Cut85points
- EllachickDeep Cut85points
- EskijackDeep Cut85points
- FatmucketDeep Cut85points
- FeatherbackDeep Cut85points
- FiddlebackDeep Cut85points
- FigpeckerDeep Cut85points
- FinbackDeep Cut85points
- FinnockDeep Cut85points
- FirebackDeep Cut85points
- FlamebackDeep Cut85points
- FlashjackDeep Cut85points
- FlatbackDeep Cut85points
- FleckviehDeep Cut85points
- FlickertailDeep Cut85points
- FlowerpeckerDeep Cut85points
- FrillbackDeep Cut85points
- FrillneckDeep Cut85points
- GarrickDeep Cut85points
- GarvockDeep Cut85points
- GeckoletDeep Cut85points
- GemsbuckDeep Cut85points
- GillbackerDeep Cut85points
- GirrockDeep Cut85points
- GoatsuckerDeep Cut85points
- GoldenbackDeep Cut85points
- GraybackDeep Cut85points
- GroundpeckerDeep Cut85points
- GuckDeep Cut85points
- HackboltDeep Cut85points
- HackeeDeep Cut85points
- HacklebackDeep Cut85points
- HackneyDeep Cut85points
- HairbackDeep Cut85points
- HarrybackDeep Cut85points
- HeidschnuckeDeep Cut85points
- HencockDeep Cut85points
- HerdwickDeep Cut85points
- HickateeDeep Cut85points
- HickorynutDeep Cut85points
- HoneysuckerDeep Cut85points
- HoolockDeep Cut85points
- HornwrackDeep Cut85points
- JackabeeDeep Cut85points
- JackapooDeep Cut85points
- JackaranianDeep Cut85points
Why these answers count
Scoring followed rarity rather than familiarity. The single hundred-point entry, Dickcissel, is a name most solvers never reach, so it stands alone at the top. The large band at eighty-five points is where the puzzle really lives: Ackie, Antpecker, Berrypecker, Blacksmith, Buckeye and Canvasback all sit there, and what unites them is that they are recognisable single words but not the first creatures anyone lists. Names like these are specific enough to be verifiable yet uncommon enough to feel like a discovery, which is exactly the profile the scoring rewards. The lower band at sixty points, forty-eight answers in total, is presumably reserved for the household names that every solver writes down in the first minute. The pattern is clear: the more obscure the corner of the animal kingdom, the more the answer pays, provided the spelling rule is satisfied and the name is genuinely one word.