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
- Scarred nylon shrimpDeep Cut85points
- Scattered Pore Rope SpongeDeep Cut85points
- Scavenger whelkDeep Cut85points
- Scavenging isopodDeep Cut85points
- Schilder's cowrieDeep Cut85points
- Schmidt datemusselDeep Cut85points
- Schmitt pea crabDeep Cut85points
- Schmitt's lattice horny spongeDeep Cut85points
- Schoolmaster gonate squidDeep Cut85points
- Schrenk's limpetDeep Cut85points
- Schuchert's hydroidDeep Cut85points
- Scimitar mactraDeep Cut85points
- Scissor datemusselDeep Cut85points
- Sclera rocksnailDeep Cut85points
- ScolymiaDeep Cut85points
- Scorched mitreDeep Cut85points
- Scorched monodontDeep Cut85points
- Scorched musselDeep Cut85points
- Scorpio spider conchDeep Cut85points
- Scorpion mud lobsterDeep Cut85points
- Scorpion murexDeep Cut85points
- Scorpion spider crabDeep Cut85points
- Scorpion stalked barnacleDeep Cut85points
- Scotch bonnetDeep Cut85points
- Scott Johnson's nudibranchDeep Cut85points
- Scraggly bottle brush black coralDeep Cut85points
- Scratched mysellaDeep Cut85points
- Scratched tuskshellDeep Cut85points
- Screw turretDeep Cut85points
- Scribbled nudibranchDeep Cut85points
- Scribbled octopusDeep Cut85points
- Scripps Cousins wood-dwelling seastarDeep Cut85points
- Script venusDeep Cut85points
- Scripta bittersweetDeep Cut85points
- Scroll coralDeep Cut85points
- Sculpted lobsterDeep Cut85points
- Sculptured clutch crabDeep Cut85points
- Sculptured DonaxDeep Cut85points
- Sculptured lobsterDeep Cut85points
- Sculptured mitten lobsterDeep Cut85points
- Sculptured mud crabDeep Cut85points
- Sculptured neriteDeep Cut85points
- Sculptured porcelain crabDeep Cut85points
- Sculptured rocksnailDeep Cut85points
- Sculptured shrimpDeep Cut85points
- Sculptured topsnailDeep Cut85points
- Sculptureless verticordDeep Cut85points
- Scutate stermaspid wormDeep Cut85points
- Scythe shrimpDeep Cut85points
- Sea appleDeep 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.