Krillion Recorded answers
11,826 recorded answers
How to approach it
Treat the prompt as a filter rather than a riddle. Write down every marine creature you can recall, then strike out anything with fins and gills and anything feathered, and what survives is your working list. From there, rank candidates by how easily a general audience would picture them, because popular, familiar kinds tend to appear on the board while obscure ones either miss the list entirely or sit far down it. Once you have a solid familiar pick, push one step further into the same group and try to recall a particular named kind rather than the umbrella term. Precision is what separates a mid-range answer from a top one, but only when the name is real and correctly spelled.
Get a hint
Begin with the sheer variety of ocean life that lives attached, buried or crawling rather than cruising, and list the body shapes that come to mind.
A little more
Then narrow to a group whose members wear a hard shell or a soft muscular body, the sort you notice in rock pools, on harbour walls or in the grit left by a falling tide.
One step further
Finish by recalling one particular kind within that group, an exact common name rather than the umbrella word, and make sure you can spell the descriptive part.
Reveal answers 11,826
- MalletiaDeep Cut85points
- Malpelo Island Land CrabDeep Cut85points
- Maltese spongeDeep Cut85points
- Manawatāwhi pāuaDeep Cut85points
- Manchurian cecinaDeep Cut85points
- Mancinella rock-shellDeep Cut85points
- Mandapam aeolidDeep Cut85points
- Mandela's nudibranchDeep Cut85points
- Maned sea anemoneDeep Cut85points
- Mango seed spongeDeep Cut85points
- Mango spongeDeep Cut85points
- Mangrove crabDeep Cut85points
- Mangrove cricketDeep Cut85points
- Mangrove cupped oysterDeep Cut85points
- Mangrove diamondback terrapinDeep Cut85points
- Mangrove false spider crabDeep Cut85points
- Mangrove fiddlerDeep Cut85points
- Mangrove flatwormDeep Cut85points
- Mangrove ghost crabDeep Cut85points
- Mangrove haminoeaDeep Cut85points
- Mangrove hermit crabDeep Cut85points
- Mangrove Horseshoe CrabDeep Cut85points
- Mangrove lace coralDeep Cut85points
- Mangrove marsh crabDeep Cut85points
- Mangrove monitorDeep Cut85points
- Mangrove mud shrimpDeep Cut85points
- Mangrove murexDeep Cut85points
- Mangrove oysterDeep Cut85points
- Mangrove periwinkleDeep Cut85points
- Mangrove porcelain crabDeep Cut85points
- Mangrove prawnDeep Cut85points
- Mangrove sea slaterDeep Cut85points
- Mangrove snailDeep Cut85points
- Mangrove stone crabDeep Cut85points
- Mangrove tree crabDeep Cut85points
- Mangrove tree-dwelling crabDeep Cut85points
- Mangrove TunicateDeep Cut85points
- Mangrove upsidedown jellyfishDeep Cut85points
- Manila clamDeep Cut85points
- Manila piddockDeep Cut85points
- Mann's anemoneDeep Cut85points
- Manning grass shrimpDeep Cut85points
- Manning hingebeakDeep Cut85points
- Mansfield's LatiaxisDeep Cut85points
- Mantle pea crabDeep Cut85points
- Mantled keyhole limpetDeep Cut85points
- Many-angled spindleDeep Cut85points
- Many-banded heart sea urchinDeep Cut85points
- Many-colored tellinDeep Cut85points
- Many-flowered carnation coralDeep Cut85points
Why these answers count
The scoring here is unusually flat: almost every recorded answer sits at 85, which tells you the judges rewarded a real, specific, correctly spelled name and stopped there. The single 100-point entry, Hoff crab, is the exception that proves the rule, an oddity memorable enough to stand out from eleven thousand competent picks. At the other end, the 348 answers on 60 points are the ones that stayed generic, a bare group word or a vague label that could cover dozens of different creatures. Between those poles, the 85-point field is dominated by precise two-word names, from the plainly descriptive Abyssal murex and Acorn barnacle to the more specialist Abalone piddock and Abalone barleysnail, and it even stretches to a marine mammal such as African Clawless Otter. The lesson is that detail pays as long as it is genuine: reaching one level below the everyday category name, and getting the spelling right, is worth far more than picking something famous.