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
- Montagu's crabDeep Cut85points
- Montagu's sea slugDeep Cut85points
- Montagu's stellate barnacleDeep Cut85points
- Montastrea coralDeep Cut85points
- Monterey barrel-bubbleDeep Cut85points
- Monterey dwarf-musselDeep Cut85points
- Monterey eulimaDeep Cut85points
- Monterey false spindleDeep Cut85points
- Monterey isopodDeep Cut85points
- Monterey piddockDeep Cut85points
- Monterey rissoDeep Cut85points
- Monterey sea cucumberDeep Cut85points
- Monterey sea lemonDeep Cut85points
- Monterey tegulaDeep Cut85points
- Monterey wentletrapDeep Cut85points
- Monterey wormsnailDeep Cut85points
- Monterey yoldiaDeep Cut85points
- Monterosato's augerDeep Cut85points
- MontiporaDeep Cut85points
- Montrouzier's thorunnaDeep Cut85points
- Moon octopusDeep Cut85points
- Moon snailDeep Cut85points
- Moon snail hermitDeep Cut85points
- Moon-faced euselenopsDeep Cut85points
- Moonglow anemoneDeep Cut85points
- MoonshinewormDeep Cut85points
- Moor moon snailDeep Cut85points
- MopaliaDeep Cut85points
- Moreton Bay bugDeep Cut85points
- Morgan's coral hermit crabDeep Cut85points
- Morgan's hermit crabDeep Cut85points
- MoridillaDeep Cut85points
- Morning star shellDeep Cut85points
- Morning sun starDeep Cut85points
- Moroccan cockleDeep Cut85points
- Morocco moon snailDeep Cut85points
- Morotoge shrimpDeep Cut85points
- Morra daphnelleDeep Cut85points
- Morro Bay aeolidDeep Cut85points
- Morsel macomaDeep Cut85points
- MorulaDeep Cut85points
- MorumDeep Cut85points
- Morus cerithDeep Cut85points
- Mosaic drop-arm octopusDeep Cut85points
- Mosaic pleurobranchDeep Cut85points
- Mosaic reef crabDeep Cut85points
- Mosaic sand starDeep Cut85points
- Mosaic sea jellyDeep Cut85points
- Mosaic sea snakeDeep Cut85points
- Mosaic tunDeep 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.