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
- Horrid nassaDeep Cut85points
- Horse clamDeep Cut85points
- Horse conchDeep Cut85points
- Horse musselDeep Cut85points
- Horse spongeDeep Cut85points
- Horsehair crabDeep Cut85points
- Horseman anemoneDeep Cut85points
- Horseshoe shrimpDeep Cut85points
- Horseshoe wormDeep Cut85points
- Horsetail hydroidDeep Cut85points
- Hot dog sea anemoneDeep Cut85points
- Hotessier's dove-shellDeep Cut85points
- Hotlips spider crabDeep Cut85points
- Hottentot fish louseDeep Cut85points
- Hourglass dolphinDeep Cut85points
- Hoyle's enope squidDeep Cut85points
- Huang Island long-snouted wormDeep Cut85points
- Hubb's octopusDeep Cut85points
- Hubbs' beaked whaleDeep Cut85points
- Huddle hydroidDeep Cut85points
- Hudson's horned doridDeep Cut85points
- Huinay cup coralDeep Cut85points
- Huinay's cactus spongeDeep Cut85points
- Hula skirt siphonophoreDeep Cut85points
- Humble club coralDeep Cut85points
- Humble wentletrapDeep Cut85points
- Humboldt Current krillDeep Cut85points
- Humic marsh crabDeep Cut85points
- Hump coralDeep Cut85points
- Hump-tailed isopodDeep Cut85points
- Humpback coralDeep Cut85points
- Humpback cowrieDeep Cut85points
- Humpback dolphinDeep Cut85points
- Humpback nylon shrimpDeep Cut85points
- Humpback prawnDeep Cut85points
- Humpback scallopDeep Cut85points
- Humpback shrimpDeep Cut85points
- Humpback soft coral shrimpDeep Cut85points
- Humphrey's buccinumDeep Cut85points
- Humphrey's wentletrapDeep Cut85points
- Humpy shrimpDeep Cut85points
- Hunchback amphipodDeep Cut85points
- Hunchback DistorsioDeep Cut85points
- Hunchback locust lobsterDeep Cut85points
- Hundred-line cockleDeep Cut85points
- Hunter shrimpDeep Cut85points
- Husked horny spongeDeep Cut85points
- Hyaline fileclamDeep Cut85points
- Hyaline scallopDeep Cut85points
- Hyaline tellinDeep 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.