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
- TregophisDeep Cut85points
- TregosorexDeep Cut85points
- TreioriaDeep Cut85points
- TrelewthentesDeep Cut85points
- TremabolitesDeep Cut85points
- TremacebusDeep Cut85points
- TremacyllusDeep Cut85points
- TremacystiaDeep Cut85points
- TremaglaspisDeep Cut85points
- TremanotidDeep Cut85points
- TremanotusDeep Cut85points
- TremaphorusDeep Cut85points
- TremarctineDeep Cut85points
- TremataspisDeep Cut85points
- TrematasterDeep Cut85points
- TrematellaDeep Cut85points
- TrematheriumDeep Cut85points
- TrematiconchaDeep Cut85points
- TrematisDeep Cut85points
- TrematobolusDeep Cut85points
- TrematocerasDeep Cut85points
- TrematochampsaDeep Cut85points
- TrematochampsidDeep Cut85points
- TrematocystisDeep Cut85points
- TrematolestesDeep Cut85points
- TrematomineDeep Cut85points
- TrematopidDeep Cut85points
- TrematoporaDeep Cut85points
- TrematoporinaDeep Cut85points
- TrematorthisDeep Cut85points
- TrematosaurDeep Cut85points
- TrematosaurusDeep Cut85points
- TrematosiaDeep Cut85points
- TrematosphindusDeep Cut85points
- TrematospiraDeep Cut85points
- TrematospondylusDeep Cut85points
- TrematosteusDeep Cut85points
- TrematosuchoidesDeep Cut85points
- TrematosuchusDeep Cut85points
- TrematotegmenDeep Cut85points
- TrematothoraxDeep Cut85points
- TrematuridDeep Cut85points
- TremblerDeep Cut85points
- TremembaetalionDeep Cut85points
- TremembasisDeep Cut85points
- TremembecarabusDeep Cut85points
- TremembellaDeep Cut85points
- TremembellinaDeep Cut85points
- TremexDeep Cut85points
- TremocoscinopleuraDeep 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.