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
- Soft gingerbread hem starDeep Cut85points
- Soft locust lobsterDeep Cut85points
- Soft orange starDeep Cut85points
- Soft sea cucumberDeep Cut85points
- Soft tangerine starfishDeep Cut85points
- Soft-hairy hermit crabDeep Cut85points
- Softshell red crabDeep Cut85points
- Soldier coneDeep Cut85points
- Soldier crabDeep Cut85points
- Soldier striped shrimpDeep Cut85points
- Soldier swimming crabDeep Cut85points
- Solen whelkDeep Cut85points
- Solid arkDeep Cut85points
- Solid augerDeep Cut85points
- Solid bubbleDeep Cut85points
- Solid drilliaDeep Cut85points
- Solid horny spongeDeep Cut85points
- Solid kanakasterDeep Cut85points
- Solid moon snailDeep Cut85points
- Solid pheasantDeep Cut85points
- Solid pupaDeep Cut85points
- Solid surf clamDeep Cut85points
- Solitary cup coralDeep Cut85points
- Solitary disk coralDeep Cut85points
- Solitary glassy-bubbleDeep Cut85points
- Solitary gorgonian hydroidDeep Cut85points
- Solitary pendulaDeep Cut85points
- Solitary pink-mouth hydroidDeep Cut85points
- Solitary sponge hydroidDeep Cut85points
- Solitary tube wormDeep Cut85points
- Solitary tunicateDeep Cut85points
- Solute akeraDeep Cut85points
- Sombrero lucineDeep Cut85points
- Sooty seahareDeep Cut85points
- Sorcerer mantis shrimpDeep Cut85points
- South African Dusky DolphinDeep Cut85points
- South African mole crabDeep Cut85points
- South American fur sealDeep Cut85points
- South American hermit crabDeep Cut85points
- South American sea lionDeep Cut85points
- South American sea nettleDeep Cut85points
- South Island Hector's dolphinDeep Cut85points
- South seas coral shellDeep Cut85points
- Southern algae shrimpDeep Cut85points
- Southern anemoneDeep Cut85points
- Southern Australia scallopDeep Cut85points
- Southern baeolidiaDeep Cut85points
- Southern berthellaDeep Cut85points
- Southern blue-ringed octopusDeep Cut85points
- Southern bobtail squidDeep 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.