Prompt 2 of 7
Name a creature you might find in a tide pool
135 accepted answers across 5 rarity tiers.
100 ptsOne in a Krillion1 answer
The rarest possible answer — almost no player finds it.
- Pistol shrimp— Snaps its claw into a bubble nearly as hot as the sun.
85 ptsDeep Cut99 answers
Genuinely obscure. Most players never think of it.
- Amphipod
- Bat star
- Blood star
- Blue crab
- Blue sea dragon
- Bristle worm
- Bryozoan
- Bubble snail
- By-the-wind sailor
- Cabezon
- Cleaner shrimp
- Clingfish
- Comb jelly
- Conch
- Cone snail
- Copepod
- Cowrie
- Crown-of-thorns starfish
- Cunner
- Cushion star
- Cuttlefish
- Damselfish
- Dogfish
- Elephant snail
- Feather duster worm
- Feather star
- Fiddler crab
- Fireworm
- Flatworm
- Geoduck
- Ghost shrimp
- Goby
- Gunnel
- Hydroid
- Isopod
- Kelp crab
- Killifish
- Klipfish
- Leather star
- Lobster
- Lugworm
- Lumpsucker
- Mantis shrimp
- Marine iguana— Darwin's Galapagos lizard grazes algae in the intertidal shallows.
- Midshipman
- Mole crab
- Moon snail
- Moray eel
- Mud crab
- Mudskipper
- Mysid shrimp
- Nematode
- Nerite
- Ochre star
- Olive snail
- Opaleye
- Ostracod
- Pea crab
- Peanut worm
- Piddock
- Pipefish
- Porcelain crab
- Portuguese man o' war
- Prickleback
- Pufferfish
- Ribbon worm
- Rock crab
- Rockfish
- Rockling
- Sally lightfoot crab
- Sand eel
- Scale worm
- Sea hare
- Sea slater
- Sea snake
- Sea spider
- Sea squirt
- Seahorse
- Seashore springtail
- Shanny
- Shark— Epaulette sharks walk between pools on their fins at low tide.
- Six-rayed star
- Skeleton shrimp
- Snailfish
- Spaghetti worm
- Spider crab
- Squat lobster
- Stickleback
- Stingray
- Stone crab
- Sunflower star
- Surgeonfish
- Tardigrade
- Tautog
- Triplefin
- Turban snail
- Velvet crab
- Wrasse
- Zoanthid
60 ptsRare14 answers
Uncommon — only a minority of players land here.
- Abalone
- Blenny
- Brittle star
- Chiton
- Cockle
- Coral
- Eel
- Horseshoe crab
- Plankton
- Scallop
- Sculpin
- Shore crab
- Stonefish
- Whelk
30 ptsSchooler17 answers
A solid, middling pick shared with plenty of other players.
- Barnacle
- Clam
- Fish
- Jellyfish
- Limpet
- Mussel
- Nudibranch
- Octopus
- Oyster
- Prawn
- Sand dollar
- Sea cucumber
- Sea urchin
- Shrimp
- Snail
- Sponge
- Worm
10 ptsPlankton4 answers
The most common answer on the board.
- Crab
- Hermit crab
- Sea anemone
- Starfish