Recorded answers
3,880 recorded answers
How to approach it
Treat the prompt as a taxonomy exercise rather than a memory test. Sketch four or five large domains where the colour occurs without human help, namely living creatures, minerals, geological formations, celestial objects and optical effects in the atmosphere, then spend a couple of minutes listing everything you can inside each one. The second pass is where the value lies: for every general entry you write, push one level narrower, replacing a broad group with a particular member of it. Precision is what separates a crowded answer from a distinctive one. Keep a shortlist of odd, hard-to-spell names too, since obscure corners of the natural world are exactly where a puzzle like this rewards curiosity. Submit your most specific defensible pick, not your first thought.
Get a hint
Start with the broad kingdoms of life and work downward: the trait turns up in creatures of the air, the water and the leaf, so no single habitat has a monopoly on it.
A little more
Non-living nature is just as productive, since the mineral kingdom, deep geological features and deep space all supply candidates that casual players rarely consider.
One step further
For the biggest score, aim at the narrowest possible label, meaning a single species, one named formation or one particular celestial body, rather than the general family it belongs to.
Reveal answers 3,880
- Blue-tailed SkimmerDeep Cut85points
- Blue-tailed skinkDeep Cut85points
- Blue-tailed Snake-eyed SkinkDeep Cut85points
- Blue-tailed TrogonDeep Cut85points
- Blue-thighed TreefrogDeep Cut85points
- Blue-throated agamaDeep Cut85points
- Blue-throated barbetDeep Cut85points
- Blue-throated bee-eaterDeep Cut85points
- Blue-throated blue flycatcherDeep Cut85points
- Blue-throated brown sunbirdDeep Cut85points
- Blue-throated conureDeep Cut85points
- Blue-throated fairy wrasseDeep Cut85points
- Blue-throated hillstarDeep Cut85points
- Blue-throated keeled lizardDeep Cut85points
- Blue-throated macawDeep Cut85points
- Blue-throated motmotDeep Cut85points
- Blue-throated mountaingemDeep Cut85points
- Blue-throated piping guanDeep Cut85points
- Blue-throated Rainbow-skinkDeep Cut85points
- Blue-throated rollerDeep Cut85points
- Blue-throated sapphireDeep Cut85points
- Blue-throated starfrontletDeep Cut85points
- Blue-throated TanagerDeep Cut85points
- Blue-throated toucanetDeep Cut85points
- Blue-throated wrasseDeep Cut85points
- Blue-tipped dancerDeep Cut85points
- Blue-tipped DasherDeep Cut85points
- Blue-tipped HelicopterDeep Cut85points
- Blue-tipped JewelDeep Cut85points
- Blue-tipped YellowwingDeep Cut85points
- Blue-toothed tuskfishDeep Cut85points
- Blue-topped satyrDeep Cut85points
- Blue-tufted starthroatDeep Cut85points
- Blue-vented hummingbirdDeep Cut85points
- Blue-wattled bulbulDeep Cut85points
- Blue-whiskered tanagerDeep Cut85points
- Blue-winged eurybiaDeep Cut85points
- Blue-winged gooseDeep Cut85points
- Blue-winged grasshopperDeep Cut85points
- Blue-winged HelicopterDeep Cut85points
- Blue-winged kookaburraDeep Cut85points
- Blue-winged laughingthrushDeep Cut85points
- Blue-winged leafbirdDeep Cut85points
- Blue-winged locustDeep Cut85points
- Blue-winged macawDeep Cut85points
- Blue-winged minlaDeep Cut85points
- Blue-winged mountain tanagerDeep Cut85points
- Blue-Winged OliveDeep Cut85points
- Blue-winged parakeetDeep Cut85points
- Blue-winged parrotDeep Cut85points
Why these answers count
The reveal is enormous, 3,824 accepted answers, yet almost all of them sit in a single band: 3,646 entries earned 85 points and only 150 settled for 60. That shape tells you the puzzle rewards specificity rather than popularity. The 60-point group is the small pool of broad, obvious picks that nearly every player reaches for first, and sharing them costs you. The 85-point tier is the sweet spot, filled with precise labels that most people would never produce: Aberrant oakblue, Abyss Pool and Achernar each scored 85, along with thousands of similarly narrow names. Only one answer, Marble berry, touched 100, which suggests the top band was reserved for the single most obscure defensible entry in the set. In practice, a two-word scientific or geographic name beats a one-word everyday one, and anything a child would say in the first five seconds is almost certainly a 60.