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
- Rounded sea star shrimpDeep Cut85points
- Roundish grooved AstarteDeep Cut85points
- Row pore rope spongeDeep Cut85points
- Rowing crabDeep Cut85points
- Royal bonnetDeep Cut85points
- Royal cloak scallopDeep Cut85points
- Royal comb venusDeep Cut85points
- Royal crabDeep Cut85points
- Royal cucumberDeep Cut85points
- Royal hypselodorisDeep Cut85points
- Royal marginellaDeep Cut85points
- Royal paper-bubbleDeep Cut85points
- Royal red shrimpDeep Cut85points
- Royal sea starDeep Cut85points
- Royal Spanish lobsterDeep Cut85points
- Royal spiny lobsterDeep Cut85points
- Rubber spongeDeep Cut85points
- Rubbery zoanthidDeep Cut85points
- Rubble crabDeep Cut85points
- Ruby brittle starDeep Cut85points
- Ruby lobsteretteDeep Cut85points
- Ruby rostangaDeep Cut85points
- Ruby tritonDeep Cut85points
- Rudder arkDeep Cut85points
- Rudder carditaDeep Cut85points
- Rude barrel-bubbleDeep Cut85points
- Rudman's PhyllidiellaDeep Cut85points
- Rudman's thecaceraDeep Cut85points
- Rudolph's purpuraDeep Cut85points
- Ruffled emarginulaDeep Cut85points
- Rugby-ball doridDeep Cut85points
- Rugged seacalfDeep Cut85points
- Rugosa nutmegDeep Cut85points
- Rugose anemoneDeep Cut85points
- Rugose bonnetDeep Cut85points
- Rugose donaxDeep Cut85points
- Rugose drupeDeep Cut85points
- Rugose hooked squidDeep Cut85points
- Rugose land crabDeep Cut85points
- Rugose mactraDeep Cut85points
- Rugose miterDeep Cut85points
- Rugose nutmegDeep Cut85points
- Rugose pen shellDeep Cut85points
- Rugose squat lobsterDeep Cut85points
- Rugose swimcrabDeep Cut85points
- Rugose thraciaDeep Cut85points
- Ruppell's keyhole limpetDeep Cut85points
- Rüppell’s octopus squidDeep Cut85points
- Russell's sea snakeDeep Cut85points
- Rust-spotted guard crabDeep 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.