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
- Bicolor pen shellDeep Cut85points
- Bicolor purse-oysterDeep Cut85points
- Bicolored FlatwormDeep Cut85points
- Biconic mangeliaDeep Cut85points
- Biconic rock shellDeep Cut85points
- Bidentate sea cucumberDeep Cut85points
- Biform ghost shrimpDeep Cut85points
- Bifurcate musselDeep Cut85points
- Big augerDeep Cut85points
- Big bottom bobtail squidDeep Cut85points
- Big horned flatwormDeep Cut85points
- Big red jellyfishDeep Cut85points
- Big whiplash squidDeep Cut85points
- Big white heart urchinDeep Cut85points
- Big-claw purple hermit crabDeep Cut85points
- Big-ear shipwormDeep Cut85points
- Big-eye amphipodDeep Cut85points
- Big-eyed bobtail squidDeep Cut85points
- Big-fin bobtail squidDeep Cut85points
- Big-leaf coralDeep Cut85points
- Big-mouth VitrinellaDeep Cut85points
- Bigclaw hippolyteDeep Cut85points
- Bigclaw snapping shrimpDeep Cut85points
- Bigelow mantis shrimpDeep Cut85points
- Bigelow's ZeidoraDeep Cut85points
- Bigeye coastal shrimpDeep Cut85points
- Bigeye cranch squidDeep Cut85points
- Bigeye eulidDeep Cut85points
- Bigeye inshore squidDeep Cut85points
- Bigeye krillDeep Cut85points
- Bigfin reef squidDeep Cut85points
- Bigfin squidDeep Cut85points
- Bigfisted swimcrabDeep Cut85points
- Bigg's killer whaleDeep Cut85points
- Bighand ghost shrimpDeep Cut85points
- Bighead octopusDeep Cut85points
- Bighead sand prawnDeep Cut85points
- Bighole clutch crabDeep Cut85points
- Bight lobsterDeep Cut85points
- Bilaminar microporellaDeep Cut85points
- Bilirate pandoraDeep Cut85points
- Bill Clench's dorisDeep Cut85points
- Bimarginate bathyal crabDeep Cut85points
- Bipartite CaecumDeep Cut85points
- Bipinnate sea plumeDeep Cut85points
- Bird shrimpDeep Cut85points
- Bird squidDeep Cut85points
- Bird's head corallineDeep Cut85points
- Bird's nest coral crabDeep Cut85points
- Birdsnest CoralDeep 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.