Krillion Recorded answers
19,397 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 19,397
- Agujon needlefishDeep Cut85points
- Ahira SkipperDeep Cut85points
- Ahuano Robber FrogDeep Cut85points
- Ainley's Storm PetrelDeep Cut85points
- AkodontDeep Cut85points
- Akroa Rice RatDeep Cut85points
- Alagoas AntwrenDeep Cut85points
- Alagoas CurassowDeep Cut85points
- Alagoas Foliage-gleanerDeep Cut85points
- Alagoas heart-tongued frogDeep Cut85points
- Alagoas TyrannuletDeep Cut85points
- Alala sisterDeep Cut85points
- Alamo MothDeep Cut85points
- Alana White-SkipperDeep Cut85points
- Alban Cochran frogDeep Cut85points
- Albania Robber FrogDeep Cut85points
- Alberico's broad-nosed batDeep Cut85points
- Albina Surinam ToadDeep Cut85points
- Albinus MetalmarkDeep Cut85points
- Albuja's Climbing RatDeep Cut85points
- Albuja's RainfrogDeep Cut85points
- Albuja's Short-tailed ShrewDeep Cut85points
- Albuquerque Ground SnakeDeep Cut85points
- Alburna SkipperDeep Cut85points
- Alcatraz snouted treefrogDeep Cut85points
- Alcatrazes lanceheadDeep Cut85points
- Alcmon SkipperDeep Cut85points
- Alda hairstreakDeep Cut85points
- Alder FlycatcherDeep Cut85points
- AlderflyDeep Cut85points
- Alemán's Snail-eaterDeep Cut85points
- Alessandra's toothcarpDeep Cut85points
- Alexander's Spiny Brittle StarDeep Cut85points
- Alexandre's lizardDeep Cut85points
- Alfaro's Rice RatDeep Cut85points
- Alfaro's treefrogDeep Cut85points
- Alfaro's Water RatDeep Cut85points
- Alfie’s gobyDeep Cut85points
- AlfonsinoDeep Cut85points
- Alhandra heart-tongued frogDeep Cut85points
- Alice argentinaDeep Cut85points
- Alicia's MetalmarkDeep Cut85points
- Alicia's SapsuckerDeep Cut85points
- Aligula SkipperDeep Cut85points
- Alipio's redbelly toadDeep Cut85points
- Alistado shrimpDeep Cut85points
- Allen's anchovyDeep Cut85points
- Allen's common mustached batDeep Cut85points
- Alligator fleaDeep Cut85points
- Alligator weed flea beetleDeep 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.