Name a creature you might find in a tide pool

This prompt last appeared Dive #49. For today's seven questions, start on the live run.

Today's Krillion answers Practice this dive Dated sheet

25-second pick · +85

Amphipod Deep Cut

8 letters · 1 word · ~2s to type · 135 accepted answers on the sheet

If the first word feels too easy, it probably scores 10. We would type Amphipod: Deep Cut, +85, 8 letters, about 2 seconds on a keyboard. Do not burn the 25 seconds on Crab, Hermit crab, Sea anemone, or Starfish — those are Plankton. The trench answer is Pistol shrimp (+100), but only take it if you can spell it cold.

Trench spelling, only if you already know it: Pistol shrimp +100

Skip Crab · Hermit crab · Sea anemone · Starfish

Hints

Hint 1. 135 accepted answers. A strong pick is a single word, about 8 letters.

Hint 2 — a solid, typeable answer

Abalone

Hint 3 — a rare answer

Amphipod · 85 pts

Best safe pick
Amphipod Deep Cut 85 pts

Ranked by rarity × how easy it is to type in 25 seconds. Too Clever answers are treated as risky.

Best rare answers

  • Amphipod 85 pts · Deep Cut
  • Bryozoan 85 pts · Deep Cut
  • Cabezon 85 pts · Deep Cut
  • Clingfish 85 pts · Deep Cut
  • Conch 85 pts · Deep Cut
  • Copepod 85 pts · Deep Cut
  • Cowrie 85 pts · Deep Cut
  • Cunner 85 pts · Deep Cut

Strong alternatives

  • Abalone 60 pts
  • Blenny 60 pts
  • Chiton 60 pts
  • Cockle 60 pts
  • Coral 60 pts
  • Plankton 60 pts
  • Scallop 60 pts
  • Sculpin 60 pts

Avoid — Plankton

Everyone else will type these. Ten points is a surface skim.

  • Crab 10
  • Hermit crab 10
  • Sea anemone 10
  • Starfish 10

Public accepted list

Same buckets the game published. We do not re-grade. The pick above is the plan; this block is the record.

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Name a creature you might find in a tide pool

● One in a Krillion · 1 ● Deep Cut · 99 ● Rare · 14 ● Schooler · 17 ● Plankton · 4
One in a Krillion +100 1 answer — tap to reveal
  • Pistol shrimp +100
Deep Cut +85 99 answers — tap to reveal
  • Amphipod +85
  • Bat star +85
  • Blood star +85
  • Blue crab +85
  • Blue sea dragon +85
  • Bristle worm +85
  • Bryozoan +85
  • Bubble snail +85
  • By-the-wind sailor +85
  • Cabezon +85
  • Cleaner shrimp +85
  • Clingfish +85
  • Comb jelly +85
  • Conch +85
  • Cone snail +85
  • Copepod +85
  • Cowrie +85
  • Crown-of-thorns starfish +85
  • Cunner +85
  • Cushion star +85
  • Cuttlefish +85
  • Damselfish +85
  • Dogfish +85
  • Elephant snail +85
  • Feather duster worm +85
  • Feather star +85
  • Fiddler crab +85
  • Fireworm +85
  • Flatworm +85
  • Geoduck +85
  • Ghost shrimp +85
  • Goby +85
  • Gunnel +85
  • Hydroid +85
  • Isopod +85
  • Kelp crab +85
  • Killifish +85
  • Klipfish +85
  • Leather star +85
  • Lobster +85
  • Lugworm +85
  • Lumpsucker +85
  • Mantis shrimp +85
  • Marine iguana +85
  • Midshipman +85
  • Mole crab +85
  • Moon snail +85
  • Moray eel +85
  • Mud crab +85
  • Mudskipper +85
  • Mysid shrimp +85
  • Nematode +85
  • Nerite +85
  • Ochre star +85
  • Olive snail +85
  • Opaleye +85
  • Ostracod +85
  • Pea crab +85
  • Peanut worm +85
  • Piddock +85
  • Pipefish +85
  • Porcelain crab +85
  • Portuguese man o' war +85
  • Prickleback +85
  • Pufferfish +85
  • Ribbon worm +85
  • Rock crab +85
  • Rockfish +85
  • Rockling +85
  • Sally lightfoot crab +85
  • Sand eel +85
  • Scale worm +85
  • Sea hare +85
  • Sea slater +85
  • Sea snake +85
  • Sea spider +85
  • Sea squirt +85
  • Seahorse +85
  • Seashore springtail +85
  • Shanny +85
  • Shark +85
  • Six-rayed star +85
  • Skeleton shrimp +85
  • Snailfish +85
  • Spaghetti worm +85
  • Spider crab +85
  • Squat lobster +85
  • Stickleback +85
  • Stingray +85
  • Stone crab +85
  • Sunflower star +85
  • Surgeonfish +85
  • Tardigrade +85
  • Tautog +85
  • Triplefin +85
  • Turban snail +85
  • Velvet crab +85
  • Wrasse +85
  • Zoanthid +85
Rare +60 14 answers — tap to reveal
  • Abalone +60
  • Blenny +60
  • Brittle star +60
  • Chiton +60
  • Cockle +60
  • Coral +60
  • Eel +60
  • Horseshoe crab +60
  • Plankton +60
  • Scallop +60
  • Sculpin +60
  • Shore crab +60
  • Stonefish +60
  • Whelk +60
Schooler +30 17 answers — tap to reveal
  • Barnacle +30
  • Clam +30
  • Fish +30
  • Jellyfish +30
  • Limpet +30
  • Mussel +30
  • Nudibranch +30
  • Octopus +30
  • Oyster +30
  • Prawn +30
  • Sand dollar +30
  • Sea cucumber +30
  • Sea urchin +30
  • Shrimp +30
  • Snail +30
  • Sponge +30
  • Worm +30
Plankton +10 4 answers — tap to reveal
  • Crab +10
  • Hermit crab +10
  • Sea anemone +10
  • Starfish +10