Krillion Recorded answers
4,822 recorded answers
How to approach it
Work the letter systematically rather than free-associating. Begin with the handful of animals that come to mind instantly, write them down, and treat that list as a baseline. Then walk through habitat categories one at a time — domestic, farmland, forest, savanna, freshwater, ocean, soil — and force yourself to produce at least one candidate per habitat. After that, shift to taxonomic groups and do the same for mammals, birds, reptiles, amphibians, fish and invertebrates, because each group draws on a different slice of vocabulary. Read your list back and eliminate anything that is two words, hyphenated or a breed rather than an animal. What remains is your submission pool, ordered by how ordinary each name feels.
Get a hint
Start with the everyday creatures anyone could list — household companions, farm animals, woodland regulars — and check which of their names begin with the target letter.
A little more
Then widen to birds, reptiles, amphibians and fish, since each of those groups carries its own vocabulary of short, single-word common names waiting to be recalled.
One step further
Finally push into invertebrates and the obscure corners of taxonomy, where the letter you need is dense with one-word forms that almost nobody thinks of first.
Reveal answers 4,822
- TomiliaDeep Cut85points
- TomioblattaDeep Cut85points
- TomiochoristaDeep Cut85points
- TomiocupesDeep Cut85points
- TomiopsisDeep Cut85points
- TomiopsyllidiumDeep Cut85points
- TomioscartaDeep Cut85points
- TomiproductusDeep Cut85points
- TomistomaDeep Cut85points
- TomistomineDeep Cut85points
- TomitheriumDeep Cut85points
- TomiulusDeep Cut85points
- TomlinsonusDeep Cut85points
- TommasinaDeep Cut85points
- TommotiaDeep Cut85points
- TommotiidDeep Cut85points
- TommotitubulusDeep Cut85points
- TommyDeep Cut85points
- TommyfishDeep Cut85points
- TommygoffDeep Cut85points
- TomnoddyDeep Cut85points
- TomocerasDeep Cut85points
- TomocheloneDeep Cut85points
- TomocyathusDeep Cut85points
- TomocyonDeep Cut85points
- TomodonDeep Cut85points
- TomodusDeep Cut85points
- TomognathusDeep Cut85points
- TomopleuraDeep Cut85points
- TomorhachisDeep Cut85points
- TomostomaDeep Cut85points
- TompoichthysDeep Cut85points
- TompoitesDeep Cut85points
- TomponautilusDeep Cut85points
- TompophicerasDeep Cut85points
- TompoproptychitesDeep Cut85points
- TompotDeep Cut85points
- TomtateDeep Cut85points
- TomteluvaDeep Cut85points
- TomtitDeep Cut85points
- TomyrisDeep Cut85points
- TonacatecutliusDeep Cut85points
- TonasirhynchiaDeep Cut85points
- TonellocarisDeep Cut85points
- TongacythereDeep Cut85points
- TonganagoDeep Cut85points
- TonganosaurusDeep Cut85points
- TongapapakaDeep Cut85points
- TongarewaDeep Cut85points
- TongdulepisDeep Cut85points
Why these answers count
Scoring here tracks obscurity, not correctness in the ordinary sense. The single hundred-point entry, Takahe, sits alone at the summit because it is a recognizable bird name that most players never reach; everything else landed in the eighty-five bracket. That band is enormous, 4760 answers, and it reads like a roll call of technical vocabulary: Tachinid, a fly family; Tabulipora, a fossil bryozoan; Tachyglossid, an egg-laying mammal grouping. All are legitimate single words beginning with the right letter, so the puzzle rewarded them equally. The forty-seven answers at sixty points sit lower, presumably because they were judged too plain or too easily guessed relative to the field, and the fourteen submissions that fell outside the top band were probably disqualified for length, hyphenation or spelling. The lesson: an unusual but genuine one-word animal name, especially a taxonomic or scientific one, is worth far more than the obvious choice, and rarity is the only lever a player controls.