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
- Decussate bittersweetDeep Cut85points
- Decussate bonnetDeep Cut85points
- Decussate rissoDeep Cut85points
- Decussate turridDeep Cut85points
- Decussate wormsnailDeep Cut85points
- Deep blade shrimpDeep Cut85points
- Deep jewelboxDeep Cut85points
- Deep lobe coralDeep Cut85points
- Deep sea squat lobsterDeep Cut85points
- Deep softshellDeep Cut85points
- Deep trouble chalice-bubbleDeep Cut85points
- Deep water hermit crabDeep Cut85points
- Deep water swimming crabDeep Cut85points
- Deep water venusDeep Cut85points
- Deep-cleft shipwormDeep Cut85points
- Deep-sea cherry blossom starfishDeep Cut85points
- Deep-sea cookie starDeep Cut85points
- Deep-sea mud shrimpDeep Cut85points
- Deep-sea red crabDeep Cut85points
- Deep-sea star coralDeep Cut85points
- Deep-water coral clamDeep Cut85points
- Deep-water horny spongeDeep Cut85points
- Deep-water mud lobsterDeep Cut85points
- Deep-water mud shrimpDeep Cut85points
- Deep-water rose shrimpDeep Cut85points
- Deep-water sea fanDeep Cut85points
- Deep-water squat lobsterDeep Cut85points
- Deep-webbed jewel squidDeep Cut85points
- Deeplet sea anemoneDeep Cut85points
- Deepsea blind lobsterDeep Cut85points
- Deepsea brittle starDeep Cut85points
- Deepsea eualidDeep Cut85points
- Deepsea kinaDeep Cut85points
- Deepsea oysterDeep Cut85points
- Deepsea solitary salpDeep Cut85points
- Deepsea spinyheadDeep Cut85points
- Deepsea sun starDeep Cut85points
- Deepsea swimming crabDeep Cut85points
- DeepstariaDeep Cut85points
- Deepwater bigeye shrimpDeep Cut85points
- Deepwater branching coralDeep Cut85points
- Deepwater dovesnailDeep Cut85points
- Deepwater humpback shrimpDeep Cut85points
- Deepwater redfish (sea cucumber)Deep Cut85points
- Deepwater stony coralDeep Cut85points
- Deepwater tuatuaDeep Cut85points
- Deer cowryDeep Cut85points
- Deer-antler crustDeep Cut85points
- Deer-horn murexDeep Cut85points
- Deichmann's Fiddler 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.