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
- Mussel redwormDeep Cut85points
- Mussel wormDeep Cut85points
- Mustard branched coralDeep Cut85points
- Mustard hill coralDeep Cut85points
- Mutable conchDeep Cut85points
- Mutable musselDeep Cut85points
- Muted tritoniaDeep Cut85points
- Mya cleftclamDeep Cut85points
- MyadoraDeep Cut85points
- MycediumDeep Cut85points
- Mycedium coralDeep Cut85points
- MyoneraDeep Cut85points
- MyronDeep Cut85points
- MyrteaDeep Cut85points
- MysellaDeep Cut85points
- MysidDeep Cut85points
- MystacocaridDeep Cut85points
- Mysterious aglajaDeep Cut85points
- Mysterious bobtail squidDeep Cut85points
- Nail starfishDeep Cut85points
- Nail-shaped crepiduleDeep Cut85points
- Naked basket starDeep Cut85points
- Naked green sea urchinDeep Cut85points
- Naked solarelleDeep Cut85points
- Nakedface hairy crabDeep Cut85points
- Nanaimo footless sea cucumberDeep Cut85points
- Naples aeolidDeep Cut85points
- Nares's sea urchinDeep Cut85points
- NarlugaDeep Cut85points
- Narrow bathyal crabDeep Cut85points
- Narrow keyhole limpetDeep Cut85points
- Narrow otter shellDeep Cut85points
- Narrow periwinkleDeep Cut85points
- Narrow snapping shrimpDeep Cut85points
- Narrow tree crabDeep Cut85points
- Narrow-fingered fiddler crabDeep Cut85points
- Narrow-fronted fiddler crabDeep Cut85points
- Narrow-hinge AstarteDeep Cut85points
- Narrow-leaved hornwrackDeep Cut85points
- Narrow-legged squat lobsterDeep Cut85points
- Narrow-ridged finless porpoiseDeep Cut85points
- Narrow-slit tuskshellDeep Cut85points
- Narrowback mud crabDeep Cut85points
- Narrowfront rubble crabDeep Cut85points
- Narrowmouth hydrobeDeep Cut85points
- Narwal shrimpDeep Cut85points
- Nassa mud shellDeep Cut85points
- NassariusDeep Cut85points
- Natal anemoneDeep Cut85points
- Natal arkDeep 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.