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
- Hairy fan lobsterDeep Cut85points
- Hairy hermitDeep Cut85points
- Hairy hermit crabDeep Cut85points
- Hairy matchbox crabDeep Cut85points
- Hairy melibeDeep Cut85points
- Hairy mushroom anemoneDeep Cut85points
- Hairy musselDeep Cut85points
- Hairy octopusDeep Cut85points
- Hairy philobryaDeep Cut85points
- Hairy porcelain crabDeep Cut85points
- Hairy red hermit crabDeep Cut85points
- Hairy river prawnDeep Cut85points
- Hairy rock crabDeep Cut85points
- Hairy sea fan coralDeep Cut85points
- Hairy sea urchinDeep Cut85points
- Hairy sea-matDeep Cut85points
- Hairy sea-squirtDeep Cut85points
- Hairy snapping shrimpDeep Cut85points
- Hairy spiny dorisDeep Cut85points
- Hairy sponge crabDeep Cut85points
- Hairy squat lobsterDeep Cut85points
- Hairy stone crabDeep Cut85points
- Hairy swimming crabDeep Cut85points
- Hairy tennis ball horny spongeDeep Cut85points
- Hairy tritonDeep Cut85points
- Hairy whelkDeep Cut85points
- Hairy yellow hermitDeep Cut85points
- Hairy-clawed hermit crabDeep Cut85points
- Hairy-handed shore crabDeep Cut85points
- Hairy-leg porcelain crabDeep Cut85points
- Hairyclaw porcelain crabDeep Cut85points
- Hakodate chitonDeep Cut85points
- Hakodate sand shrimpDeep Cut85points
- Hakunamatata's aeolidDeep Cut85points
- Half-banded mitreDeep Cut85points
- Half-brown miterDeep Cut85points
- Half-crenated arkDeep Cut85points
- Half-hairy musselDeep Cut85points
- Half-heart cockleDeep Cut85points
- Half-naked pen shellDeep Cut85points
- Half-pitted miterDeep Cut85points
- Half-propeller arkDeep Cut85points
- Half-scratched tuskDeep Cut85points
- Half-smooth odostomeDeep Cut85points
- Half-smooth tuskshellDeep Cut85points
- Half-striated donaxDeep Cut85points
- Half-swimmer cowryDeep Cut85points
- Half-white limpetDeep Cut85points
- Halfround carditaDeep Cut85points
- HalgerdaDeep 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.