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Name a sea animal that isn't a fish or a bird

November 4, 2026 · Daily Dive #112

Explore 11,826 recorded answers and their points for question 2 on November 4, 2026.

Dated record7 questions · 30,015 recorded answers

11,826 recorded names on November 4, 2026, 11,609 at 85 or higher. The highest recorded score on this question is 100.

Look away from the obvious swimmers and picture the seabed, the tide pools and the shells left on the sand, where most marine life lives out of sight. Any saltwater animal counts provided it is neither a fish nor a bird, so shelled, soft-bodied, spiny and warm-blooded sea creatures qualify, while anything with fins and gills or with feathers does not.

11,826 recorded answers11,609 at 85+ points100 highest recorded points
  • One in a Krillion1100 pts
  • Deep Cut11,60885 pts
  • Rare17860 pts
  • Schooler3030 pts
  • Plankton910 pts
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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
  • White and brown DendrodorisDeep Cut85points
  • White anemoneDeep Cut85points
  • White Atlantic CadlinaDeep Cut85points
  • White Atlantic triphoraDeep Cut85points
  • White baby earDeep Cut85points
  • White barneaDeep Cut85points
  • White blind limpetDeep Cut85points
  • White bottlebrush hydroidDeep Cut85points
  • White brooding brittle starDeep Cut85points
  • White burrowing anemoneDeep Cut85points
  • White bushy bryozoanDeep Cut85points
  • White capped swallowtailDeep Cut85points
  • White catwormDeep Cut85points
  • White clathrinaDeep Cut85points
  • White cluster anemoneDeep Cut85points
  • White colonial phoronidDeep Cut85points
  • White colonial tunicateDeep Cut85points
  • White crustDeep Cut85points
  • White crust tunicateDeep Cut85points
  • White cylichnaDeep Cut85points
  • White didemnidDeep Cut85points
  • White disc soft coralDeep Cut85points
  • White doridDeep Cut85points
  • White dot-eyed hermit crabDeep Cut85points
  • White dwarf barnacleDeep Cut85points
  • White dwarf-turbanDeep Cut85points
  • White elbow crabDeep Cut85points
  • White encrusting soft coralDeep Cut85points
  • White encrusting spongeDeep Cut85points
  • White eye sea sprayDeep Cut85points
  • White foot pauaDeep Cut85points
  • White frond-aeolisDeep Cut85points
  • White furrow shellDeep Cut85points
  • White fusiform sea cucumberDeep Cut85points
  • White giant-turrisDeep Cut85points
  • White gibbulaDeep Cut85points
  • White glass shrimpDeep Cut85points
  • White hammer oysterDeep Cut85points
  • White henriciaDeep Cut85points
  • White hoof shellDeep Cut85points
  • White hoofsnailDeep Cut85points
  • White horny coralDeep Cut85points
  • White hydroidDeep Cut85points
  • White jorunnaDeep Cut85points
  • White keeled turridDeep Cut85points
  • White keyhole limpetDeep Cut85points
  • White lamp shellDeep Cut85points
  • White long-armed crabDeep Cut85points
  • White mantis shrimpDeep Cut85points
  • White melampusDeep 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.

Recorded from the game’s published reveal · Source · Checked 4 Nov, 12:25 UTC

Names and scores reflect the linked dated reveal. The original game makes the final decision on live acceptance. Editorial policy

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