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
- Encrusting bolder coralDeep Cut85points
- Encrusting colonial anemoneDeep Cut85points
- Encrusting coralDeep Cut85points
- Encrusting gorgonianDeep Cut85points
- Encrusting horny spongeDeep Cut85points
- Encrusting hydrocoralDeep Cut85points
- Encrusting orange spongeDeep Cut85points
- Encrusting pore coralDeep Cut85points
- Encrusting poritesDeep Cut85points
- Encrusting sandpaper coralDeep Cut85points
- Encrusting sea squirtDeep Cut85points
- Encrusting spongeDeep Cut85points
- Encrusting star coralDeep Cut85points
- Encrusting turret spongeDeep Cut85points
- Encrusting yellow spongeDeep Cut85points
- Endeavour prawnDeep Cut85points
- Endemic predatory shrimpDeep Cut85points
- Endesa saucer coralDeep Cut85points
- Endive murexDeep Cut85points
- Enersis hydroidDeep Cut85points
- EnginaDeep Cut85points
- Engraved barrel-bubbleDeep Cut85points
- Engraved coneDeep Cut85points
- Engraved dovesnailDeep Cut85points
- Enigma oysterDeep Cut85points
- Enope squidDeep Cut85points
- Entangled moon-shellDeep Cut85points
- Enteromorpha-eating sapsuckerDeep Cut85points
- EntodesmaDeep Cut85points
- Epiphytic horny spongeDeep Cut85points
- Episcopal coneDeep Cut85points
- Episcopal miterDeep Cut85points
- Equal cleftclamDeep Cut85points
- Equal-sized surf clamDeep Cut85points
- Equilateral venusDeep Cut85points
- EratoDeep Cut85points
- Erdmann's zoanthidDeep Cut85points
- Erect puncturellaDeep Cut85points
- Erect rope spongeDeep Cut85points
- Erect wormsnailDeep Cut85points
- Ernst's doridDeep Cut85points
- Eroded clutch crabDeep Cut85points
- Eroded cowrieDeep Cut85points
- Eroded frog crabDeep Cut85points
- Eroded mud crabDeep Cut85points
- Eroded periwinkleDeep Cut85points
- Eroded turretsnailDeep Cut85points
- Eroded vase crabDeep Cut85points
- ErviliaDeep Cut85points
- ErycinaDeep 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.