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
- Two-horned yellow crabDeep Cut85points
- Two-keel ClioDeep Cut85points
- Two-keel hairysnailDeep Cut85points
- Two-keel turridDeep Cut85points
- Two-rib margariteDeep Cut85points
- Two-ribboned sea cucumberDeep Cut85points
- Two-spine pteropodDeep Cut85points
- Two-spined sea starDeep Cut85points
- Two-spot keyhole limpetDeep Cut85points
- Two-spot locust lobsterDeep Cut85points
- Two-spot swimming crabDeep Cut85points
- Two-spot thordisDeep Cut85points
- Two-spotted bittersweetDeep Cut85points
- Two-stringed ark shellDeep Cut85points
- Two-tail vitrinellaDeep Cut85points
- Two-tentacled sea cucumberDeep Cut85points
- Two-tone AmphissaDeep Cut85points
- Two-tone cup coralDeep Cut85points
- Two-tone pygmy squidDeep Cut85points
- Two-toned lobsteretteDeep Cut85points
- Two-tooth barrel-bubbleDeep Cut85points
- Two-tooth topsnailDeep Cut85points
- Two-toothed white snailDeep Cut85points
- Twoclaw shrimpDeep Cut85points
- Twoclaw snapping shrimpDeep Cut85points
- Twohole clutch crabDeep Cut85points
- Twospine box crabDeep Cut85points
- Twospine crangonDeep Cut85points
- Twospined arm swimming crabDeep Cut85points
- Twostripe coral shrimpDeep Cut85points
- Twotoned carditaDeep Cut85points
- TylodinaDeep Cut85points
- Type C killer whaleDeep Cut85points
- Type D killer whaleDeep Cut85points
- Typical edenttellinaDeep Cut85points
- Typical squat lobsterDeep Cut85points
- Umbilical ovulaDeep Cut85points
- Umbilicate cowrieDeep Cut85points
- Umbilicate Mediterranean gibbulaDeep Cut85points
- Umbilicate pheasant shellDeep Cut85points
- Umbrella corallimorpharianDeep Cut85points
- Umbrella crabDeep Cut85points
- Umbrella jellyfishDeep Cut85points
- Umbrella octopusDeep Cut85points
- Umbrella slugDeep Cut85points
- Umbrella squidDeep Cut85points
- Unadorned sea anemoneDeep Cut85points
- Unarmed cranch squidDeep Cut85points
- Unarmed hermaphroditic anemoneDeep Cut85points
- Unbranched HydroidDeep 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.