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
- Massy's flapjack octopodDeep Cut85points
- Mat zoanthidDeep Cut85points
- Matagorda macomaDeep Cut85points
- Matchless ConeDeep Cut85points
- Matheson’s heart urchinDeep Cut85points
- Matted fiddler crabDeep Cut85points
- Mature DosiniaDeep Cut85points
- Maugean onchidorisDeep Cut85points
- Maui anchialine shrimpDeep Cut85points
- Māui dolphinDeep Cut85points
- Maura pen shellDeep Cut85points
- Mauritian conchDeep Cut85points
- Mauritius BulliaDeep Cut85points
- Mauve stingerDeep Cut85points
- Mauve sunettaDeep Cut85points
- Mauve-eyed hermit crabDeep Cut85points
- Mauve-mouth drillDeep Cut85points
- Maxima clamDeep Cut85points
- Maximum neriteDeep Cut85points
- Mayor toothshellDeep Cut85points
- Mazatlan pearl oysterDeep Cut85points
- Mazatlan's arkDeep Cut85points
- Maze brain coralDeep Cut85points
- Maze coralDeep Cut85points
- Maze's coneDeep Cut85points
- McDowell's sea snakeDeep Cut85points
- McGinty wormsnailDeep Cut85points
- McGinty's DistorsioDeep Cut85points
- McGinty's latirusDeep Cut85points
- McGinty's oysterDeep Cut85points
- McMurrich's anemoneDeep Cut85points
- McPeak anemoneDeep Cut85points
- Meagre miterDeep Cut85points
- Measled cowrieDeep Cut85points
- Mechanical shrimpDeep Cut85points
- Median dipperclamDeep Cut85points
- Mediterranean acorn wormDeep Cut85points
- Mediterranean awning clamDeep Cut85points
- Mediterranean boxer shrimpDeep Cut85points
- Mediterranean branching placozoanDeep Cut85points
- Mediterranean cerianthidDeep Cut85points
- Mediterranean crabDeep Cut85points
- Mediterranean feather starDeep Cut85points
- Mediterranean flabellinaDeep Cut85points
- Mediterranean geryonDeep Cut85points
- Mediterranean macomaDeep Cut85points
- Mediterranean mermaid's gloveDeep Cut85points
- Mediterranean monk sealDeep Cut85points
- Mediterranean mud shrimpDeep Cut85points
- Mediterranean musselDeep 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.