Name a living bird that cannot fly

Last seen Dive #44. 63 accepted answers on the published sheet.

Hints

Hint 1. 63 accepted answers. A strong pick is a single word, about 4 letters.

Hint 2 — a solid, typeable answer

Rhea

Hint 3 — a rare answer

Kagu · 85 pts

Best safe pick
Kagu 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

  • Kagu 85 pts · Deep Cut
  • Takahe 85 pts · Deep Cut
  • Weka 85 pts · Deep Cut
  • Giant coot 85 pts · Deep Cut
  • Junin grebe 85 pts · Deep Cut
  • Lesser rhea 85 pts · Deep Cut
  • Puna rhea 85 pts · Deep Cut
  • Aldabra rail 85 pts · Deep Cut

Strong alternatives

  • Rhea 60 pts
  • Adelie penguin 60 pts
  • African penguin 60 pts
  • Common ostrich 60 pts
  • Gentoo penguin 60 pts
  • Greater rhea 60 pts
  • Chinstrap penguin 60 pts
  • Galapagos penguin 60 pts

Avoid — Plankton

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

  • Ostrich 10
  • Penguin 10

All accepted answers

Prompt 1 of 1

Name a living bird that cannot fly

One in a Krillion · 1 Deep Cut · 38 Rare · 16 Schooler · 5 Too Clever · 1 Plankton · 2
One in a Krillion +100 1 answer — tap to reveal
  • Inaccessible Island rail +100
Deep Cut +85 38 answers — tap to reveal
  • Aldabra rail +85
  • Auckland teal +85
  • Calayan rail +85
  • Campbell teal +85
  • Chubut steamer duck +85
  • Dwarf cassowary +85
  • Erect-crested penguin +85
  • Fiordland penguin +85
  • Flightless cormorant +85
  • Fuegian steamer duck +85
  • Giant coot +85
  • Gough Island moorhen +85
  • Henderson crake +85
  • Invisible rail +85
  • Junin grebe +85
  • Kagu +85
  • Lesser rhea +85
  • Lord Howe woodhen +85
  • Makira woodhen +85
  • New Guinea flightless rail +85
  • North Island brown kiwi +85
  • Northern cassowary +85
  • Northern rockhopper penguin +85
  • Okarito kiwi +85
  • Pink-legged rail +85
  • Puna rhea +85
  • Roviana rail +85
  • Royal penguin +85
  • Snares penguin +85
  • Snoring rail +85
  • Somali ostrich +85
  • Southern brown kiwi +85
  • Takahe +85
  • Tasmanian native hen +85
  • Titicaca grebe +85
  • Weka +85
  • Woodford's rail +85
  • Yellow-eyed penguin +85
Rare +60 16 answers — tap to reveal
  • Adelie penguin +60
  • African penguin +60
  • Chinstrap penguin +60
  • Common ostrich +60
  • Galapagos penguin +60
  • Gentoo penguin +60
  • Great spotted kiwi +60
  • Greater rhea +60
  • Humboldt penguin +60
  • Little blue penguin +60
  • Little spotted kiwi +60
  • Macaroni penguin +60
  • Magellanic penguin +60
  • Rhea +60
  • Southern cassowary +60
  • Southern rockhopper penguin +60
Schooler +30 5 answers — tap to reveal
  • Cassowary +30
  • Emperor penguin +30
  • Emu +30
  • King penguin +30
  • Kiwi +30
Too Clever +15 1 answer — tap to reveal
  • Kakapo +15
Plankton +10 2 answers — tap to reveal
  • Ostrich +10
  • Penguin +10