Krillion Recorded answers
19,395 recorded answers
How to approach it
Work taxon by taxon rather than free-associating: sketch a quick grid of birds, amphibians, reptiles, freshwater and marine fishes, insects, arachnids and small mammals, then fill each cell with a name you can defend. Start with the obvious and keep descending into field-guide territory, because the scoring rewards precision and obscurity rather than fame. For every candidate, ask whether its natural range really sits inside the target continent and whether it also occurs elsewhere; a species shared with another region is usually rejected. Strike out anything domesticated, captive-bred or introduced. Then pick the least familiar name on your list that you can still spell correctly and justify in one line.
Get a hint
Cast a wide taxonomic net before narrowing: birds, amphibians, reptiles, freshwater and marine fishes, butterflies and moths, beetles, spiders, and small mammals all have deep lineages across the continent's varied habitats.
A little more
Then think like a field-guide index: many valid names pair a genus with a descriptive epithet, or borrow the name of a river, ridge or valley where the taxon was first collected, so odd-looking combinations are usually real rather than invented.
One step further
Finally, settle on one narrow-range species you can vouch for, something recorded from a single cloud forest, cave, deep-sea trench or high-altitude stream, and confirm its native range touches no other continent before committing.
Reveal answers 19,395
- OlinguitoOne in a Krillion100points
- 88 butterflyDeep Cut85points
- Abakapa rain frogDeep Cut85points
- Abatira SkipperDeep Cut85points
- Abauna SkipperDeep Cut85points
- Abdonides SkipperDeep Cut85points
- Abitagua CaecilianDeep Cut85points
- ABOFOA's Humming frogDeep Cut85points
- Abra Acanacu marsupial frogDeep Cut85points
- Abra Málaga Andes FrogDeep Cut85points
- Abra Malaga toadDeep Cut85points
- Abyssal assfishDeep Cut85points
- Abyssal grenadierDeep Cut85points
- Abyssal halosaurDeep Cut85points
- Abyssal spiderfishDeep Cut85points
- Acacia AristoteliaDeep Cut85points
- Acacia SkipperDeep Cut85points
- Academy eelDeep Cut85points
- Acadian FlycatcherDeep Cut85points
- Acancocha Water FrogDeep Cut85points
- Acandi toothcarpDeep Cut85points
- Acantus SarotaDeep Cut85points
- Acapulco majorDeep Cut85points
- AcaraDeep Cut85points
- Acary avionDeep Cut85points
- Aceramarca OpossumDeep Cut85points
- Acevedo spiny-backed frogDeep Cut85points
- Achala copper lizardDeep Cut85points
- Achala toadDeep Cut85points
- Achala’s four-eyed frogDeep Cut85points
- Achaval’s toadDeep Cut85points
- Achilles morphoDeep Cut85points
- Ackawaio StefaniaDeep Cut85points
- Aconcagua grenadierDeep Cut85points
- Acorn WoodpeckerDeep Cut85points
- Acorn wormDeep Cut85points
- AcouchiDeep Cut85points
- Acoupa weakfishDeep Cut85points
- Acre AntshrikeDeep Cut85points
- Acre corydorasDeep Cut85points
- Acre rocket frogDeep Cut85points
- Acre Tody-tyrantDeep Cut85points
- Acre treefrogDeep Cut85points
- Acre's Oval FrogDeep Cut85points
- Acrobat antDeep Cut85points
- Acrobat MothDeep Cut85points
- Acrobatic CavyDeep Cut85points
- Acting HeliconianDeep Cut85points
- Actoris MetalmarkDeep Cut85points
- Adam's Miniature ArkDeep Cut85points
Why these answers count
Scoring here tracks obscurity, not correctness alone, so the pool splits into three tiers. The lone 100-point answer, Olinguito, sits apart from everything else: one unusual mammal name that no other player in the recorded set produced, and the only pick to break the 85 ceiling. The 85-point band, with 19,071 answers, is where specialist vocabulary pays: 88 butterfly, Abakapa rain frog and Acre treefrog all sit there, each a real, verifiable species that most players would never retrieve under time pressure. The 279 answers at 60 points are the safe, familiar choices, recognisable animals that many people reach for first, so the crowd splits the credit. In practice the difference between 60 and 85 is a willingness to leave the well-trodden list and name something a field guide would index; the difference between 85 and 100 is luck as much as knowledge, since a single unusual recall has to be the only one of its kind.