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
- Blue spiny lobsterDeep Cut85points
- Blue spiny starfishDeep Cut85points
- Blue spot mantis shrimpDeep Cut85points
- Blue squat lobsterDeep Cut85points
- Blue staghornDeep Cut85points
- Blue stiligerDeep Cut85points
- Blue striped squat lobsterDeep Cut85points
- Blue topsnailDeep Cut85points
- Blue tube wormDeep Cut85points
- Blue yellow ringed sea squirtDeep Cut85points
- Blue-back locust lobsterDeep Cut85points
- Blue-black urchinDeep Cut85points
- Blue-eye whiplash squidDeep Cut85points
- Blue-eyed Coral CrabDeep Cut85points
- Blue-eyed hermitDeep Cut85points
- Blue-eyed rock crabDeep Cut85points
- Blue-green bryozoanDeep Cut85points
- Blue-leg swimcrabDeep Cut85points
- Blue-legged boxer shrimpDeep Cut85points
- Blue-legged hermit crabDeep Cut85points
- Blue-line chitonDeep Cut85points
- Blue-lined octopusDeep Cut85points
- Blue-lined philinopsisDeep Cut85points
- Blue-lipped sea kraitDeep Cut85points
- Blue-orange banded hermit crabDeep Cut85points
- Blue-rayed limpetDeep Cut85points
- Blue-ring sea squirtDeep Cut85points
- Blue-speckled nudibranchDeep Cut85points
- Blue-spot chitonDeep Cut85points
- Blue-spot oxynoeDeep Cut85points
- Blue-spotted sea urchinDeep Cut85points
- Blue-striped Hermit CrabDeep Cut85points
- Blue-striped sea slugDeep Cut85points
- Blueband hermitDeep Cut85points
- Blueberry Hermit CrabDeep Cut85points
- Blueleg mantis shrimpDeep Cut85points
- Bluespine hermitDeep Cut85points
- Bluestriped light bulb tunicateDeep Cut85points
- Bluetip coralDeep Cut85points
- Bluff oysterDeep Cut85points
- Bluish encrusting spongeDeep Cut85points
- Bluish whelkDeep Cut85points
- Blunt arm sea starDeep Cut85points
- Blunt blade shrimpDeep Cut85points
- Blunt slipper lobsterDeep Cut85points
- Blunt tellinDeep Cut85points
- Blunt-spined euryplacid crabDeep Cut85points
- Blunt-toothed crabDeep Cut85points
- Bluntclaw snapping shrimpDeep Cut85points
- Blunted cockleDeep 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.