Prompt 2 of 7
Name a whale species
39 accepted answers across 6 rarity tiers.
100 ptsOne in a Krillion1 answer
The rarest possible answer — almost no player finds it.
- Spade-toothed whale— The rarest whale on Earth. Its first near-complete specimen was only dissected in 2024.
85 ptsDeep Cut20 answers
Genuinely obscure. Most players never think of it.
- Andrews' beaked whale
- Arnoux's beaked whale
- Baird's beaked whale
- Blainville's beaked whale
- Dwarf sperm whale
- False killer whale
- Gervais' beaked whale
- Gray's beaked whale
- Hector's beaked whale
- Longman's beaked whale
- Melon-headed whale
- Omura's whale
- Pygmy killer whale
- Pygmy right whale
- Shepherd's beaked whale
- Southern bottlenose whale
- Sowerby's beaked whale
- Stejneger's beaked whale
- Strap-toothed whale
- True's beaked whale
60 ptsRare6 answers
Uncommon — only a minority of players land here.
- Antarctic minke whale
- Bryde's whale
- Cuvier's beaked whale— Holds the record for the deepest, longest dive of any mammal.
- Northern bottlenose whale
- Pygmy sperm whale
- Sei whale
30 ptsSchooler7 answers
A solid, middling pick shared with plenty of other players.
- Beluga
- Bowhead whale
- Fin whale
- Gray whale
- Minke whale
- Pilot whale
- Right whale
15 ptsToo Clever1 answer
An overthought pick that scores below the middle of the board.
- Narwhal— The unicorn of the sea. The whole school reached for it too.
10 ptsPlankton4 answers
The most common answer on the board.
- Blue whale— The biggest animal ever. The first thing everyone blurts.
- Humpback whale
- Orca— Technically the ocean's largest dolphin. Emotionally, always a whale.
- Sperm whale