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
- Thai vinegar crabDeep Cut85points
- Thatched barnacleDeep Cut85points
- ThecaceraDeep Cut85points
- Thenarian burrowing anemoneDeep Cut85points
- Thersite strombDeep Cut85points
- Thetys salpDeep Cut85points
- Thick cyclocardiaDeep Cut85points
- Thick finger coralDeep Cut85points
- Thick keyhole limpetDeep Cut85points
- Thick lacunaDeep Cut85points
- Thick lipped dog whelkDeep Cut85points
- Thick lucineDeep Cut85points
- Thick macomaDeep Cut85points
- Thick white horny spongeDeep Cut85points
- Thick-based entoproctDeep Cut85points
- Thick-cord whelkDeep Cut85points
- Thick-edged cowryDeep Cut85points
- Thick-lip drillDeep Cut85points
- Thick-lipped ribbed rissoaDeep Cut85points
- Thick-lipped spire shellDeep Cut85points
- Thick-ribbed whelkDeep Cut85points
- Thick-ridged venusDeep Cut85points
- Thick-ringed venusDeep Cut85points
- Thickclaw porcelain crabDeep Cut85points
- Thicklip jewelbox crabDeep Cut85points
- Thiel's boring amphipodDeep Cut85points
- Thiele's fire spongeDeep Cut85points
- Thiele's neosquidDeep Cut85points
- Thimble jellyfishDeep Cut85points
- Thin aclisDeep Cut85points
- Thin birdsnest coralDeep Cut85points
- Thin cauliflower coralDeep Cut85points
- Thin cyclinellaDeep Cut85points
- Thin entodesmaDeep Cut85points
- Thin finger coralDeep Cut85points
- Thin moonsnailDeep Cut85points
- Thin nut clamDeep Cut85points
- Thin purse-oysterDeep Cut85points
- Thin sea urchinDeep Cut85points
- Thin shrimpDeep Cut85points
- Thin tellinDeep Cut85points
- Thin tube coralDeep Cut85points
- Thin whelkDeep Cut85points
- Thin-fingered fiddler crabDeep Cut85points
- Thin-ribbed whelkDeep Cut85points
- Thin-shell littleneckDeep Cut85points
- Thin-shelled tellinaDeep Cut85points
- Thin-sliced horny spongeDeep Cut85points
- Thinarm clutch crabDeep Cut85points
- Thinbeak neck 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.