Name a mammal or reptile that lives in rivers

What we would type in 25 seconds — rarity × spelling speed, not a dump of the public list.

25-second pick · +100

Rakali One in a Krillion

6 letters · 1 word · ~2s to type · 479 accepted answers on the sheet

Go past the first country or city a classroom map would show. We would type Rakali: One in a Krillion, +100, 6 letters, about 2 seconds on a keyboard. Do not burn the 25 seconds on Alligator, Beaver, Crocodile, or Hippopotamus — those are Plankton. It is also the One in a Krillion on this sheet, so the rare pick and the typeable pick are the same.

Skip Alligator · Beaver · Crocodile · Hippopotamus

Hints

Hint 1. 479 accepted answers. A strong pick is a single word, about 6 letters.

Hint 2 — a solid, typeable answer

Basilisk

Hint 3 — a rare answer

Rakali · 100 pts

Best safe pick
Rakali One in a Krillion 100 pts

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

Best rare answers

  • Rakali 100 pts · One in a Krillion
  • Baiji 85 pts · Deep Cut
  • Cooter 85 pts · Deep Cut
  • Keelback 85 pts · Deep Cut
  • Matamata 85 pts · Deep Cut
  • Tucuxi 85 pts · Deep Cut
  • Bush dog 85 pts · Deep Cut
  • Dice snake 85 pts · Deep Cut

Strong alternatives

  • Basilisk 60 pts
  • Desman 60 pts
  • Gharial 60 pts
  • Manatee 60 pts
  • Mink 60 pts
  • Muskrat 60 pts
  • Nutria 60 pts
  • Tapir 60 pts

Avoid — Plankton

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

  • Alligator 10
  • Beaver 10
  • Crocodile 10
  • Hippopotamus 10
  • Otter 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.

Prompt 1 of 1

Name a mammal or reptile that lives in rivers

One in a Krillion · 2 Deep Cut · 437 Rare · 27 Schooler · 8 Plankton · 5
One in a Krillion +100 2 answers — tap to reveal
  • Mary River turtle +100 Grows green algae hair and breathes through its rear end.
  • Rakali +100 Australia's native water rat, with a white-tipped tail.
Deep Cut +85 437 answers — tap to reveal
  • Adanson's mud turtle +85
  • African brown water snake +85
  • African clawless otter +85
  • African dwarf mud turtle +85
  • African forest turtle +85
  • African helmeted turtle +85
  • African keeled mud turtle +85
  • African manatee +85
  • African side-necked turtle +85
  • African softshell turtle +85
  • Alabama map turtle +85
  • Alabama red-bellied cooter +85
  • Amazon river turtle +85
  • Amazonian manatee +85
  • Amazonian nectomys +85
  • Amboina box turtle +85
  • American water shrew +85
  • Annulated water snake +85
  • Aquatic garter snake +85
  • Aquatic genet +85
  • Aquatic tenrec +85
  • Arafura file snake +85
  • Araguaian river dolphin +85
  • Aramia snake-necked turtle +85
  • Argentine snake-necked turtle +85
  • Arrau turtle +85
  • Asian giant softshell turtle +85
  • Asian leaf turtle +85
  • Asian narrow-headed softshell turtle +85
  • Asian small-clawed otter +85
  • Asiatic annulate keelback +85
  • Asiatic softshell turtle +85
  • Assam leaf turtle +85
  • Assam roofed turtle +85
  • Atrato slider +85
  • Aubry's flapshell turtle +85
  • Australian big-headed turtle +85
  • Australian saw-shelled turtle +85
  • Australian short-necked turtle +85
  • Australian snake-necked turtle +85
  • Australian snapping turtle +85
  • Australian water dragon +85
  • Baiji +85
  • Baird's tapir +85
  • Baja California slider +85
  • Balkan pond turtle +85
  • Banded water cobra +85
  • Barbour's map turtle +85
  • Barred grass snake +85
  • Beale's eyed turtle +85
  • Bellinger River snapping turtle +85
  • Big Bend slider +85
  • Big-headed Amazon river turtle +85
  • Big-headed turtle +85
  • Black marsh turtle +85
  • Black pond turtle +85
  • Black softshell turtle +85
  • Black-knobbed map turtle +85
  • Black-striped keelback +85
  • Bocourt's water snake +85
  • Bolivian anaconda +85
  • Bolivian river dolphin +85
  • Borneo crocodile +85
  • Brahminy river turtle +85
  • Brazilian snake-necked turtle +85
  • Brazos water snake +85
  • Broad-shelled turtle +85
  • Brown roofed turtle +85
  • Brown stream snake +85
  • Brown water snake +85
  • Brown-banded water snake +85
  • Buff-striped keelback +85
  • Burmese flapshell turtle +85
  • Burmese keelback +85
  • Burmese narrow-headed softshell turtle +85
  • Burmese peacock softshell +85
  • Burmese roofed turtle +85
  • Bush dog +85
  • Cagle's map turtle +85
  • Caiman lizard +85
  • Cameroonian wading rat +85
  • Cann's snake-necked turtle +85
  • Caspian turtle +85
  • Central African mud turtle +85
  • Central African slender-snouted crocodile +85
  • Central American mud turtle +85
  • Central American river turtle +85
  • Central American snapping turtle +85
  • Checkered keelback +85
  • Chinese alligator +85
  • Chinese crocodile lizard +85
  • Chinese pond turtle +85
  • Chinese softshell turtle +85
  • Chinese stripe-necked turtle +85
  • Chinese water dragon +85
  • Chinese water shrew +85
  • Chinese water snake +85
  • Coastal plain cooter +85
  • Colombian slider +85
  • Concho water snake +85
  • Congo clawless otter +85
  • Congo wading rat +85
  • Congo water cobra +85
  • Cooter +85
  • Crab-eating mongoose +85
  • Crab-eating raccoon +85
  • Crab-eating water snake +85
  • Crayfish snake +85
  • Crocodile tegu +85
  • Cuban slider +85
  • Cumberland slider +85
  • D'Orbigny's slider +85
  • Dahl's toad-headed turtle +85
  • Dark-spotted anaconda +85
  • Dice snake +85
  • Dinner-plate turtle +85
  • Diving lizard +85
  • Dog-faced water snake +85
  • Dumeril's monitor +85
  • Dunn's mud turtle +85
  • Dwarf caiman +85
  • Dwarf crocodile +85
  • Dwarf water cobra +85
  • Earless monitor lizard +85
  • Earless water rat +85
  • East African black mud turtle +85
  • East African wading rat +85
  • Eastern long-necked turtle +85
  • Eastern mud turtle +85
  • Eastern water snake +85
  • Ecuador fish-eating rat +85
  • Ecuadorean crab-eating rat +85
  • Elegant water shrew +85
  • Elephant trunk snake +85
  • Escambia map turtle +85
  • Ethiopian amphibious rat +85
  • Euphrates softshell turtle +85
  • Eurasian otter +85
  • False gharial +85
  • False map turtle +85
  • False water cobra +85
  • Fanged water snake +85
  • Ferreira's fish-eating rat +85
  • File snake +85
  • Fish-eating rat +85
  • Fishing cat +85
  • Fitzroy River turtle +85
  • Flat-headed cat +85
  • Flattened musk turtle +85
  • Florida cottonmouth +85
  • Florida green water snake +85
  • Florida red-bellied cooter +85
  • Florida softshell +85
  • Four-eyed turtle +85
  • Geoffroy's side-necked turtle +85
  • Giant Asian pond turtle +85
  • Giant beaver +85
  • Giant garter snake +85
  • Giant musk turtle +85
  • Giant otter shrew +85
  • Gibba turtle +85
  • Glossy crayfish snake +85
  • Golden coin turtle +85
  • Goldman's water mouse +85
  • Gorgas's rice rat +85
  • Graham's crayfish snake +85
  • Grass snake +85
  • Greater cane rat +85
  • Green water snake +85
  • Gulf snapping turtle +85
  • Hainan mountain keelback +85
  • Hairy-nosed otter +85
  • Hall's New Guinea crocodile +85
  • Herrera's mud turtle +85
  • Hilaire's side-necked turtle +85
  • Himalayan water shrew +85
  • Hoge's side-necked turtle +85
  • Hunan softshell turtle +85
  • Iberian grass snake +85
  • Iberian pond turtle +85
  • Indian black turtle +85
  • Indian eyed turtle +85
  • Indian flapshell turtle +85
  • Indian narrow-headed softshell turtle +85
  • Indian peacock softshell turtle +85
  • Indian roofed turtle +85
  • Indian softshell turtle +85
  • Indian tent turtle +85
  • Indonesian giant sailfin dragon +85
  • Indus river dolphin +85
  • Intermediate musk turtle +85
  • Irrawaddy dolphin +85
  • Irwin's turtle +85
  • Ivory Coast mud turtle +85
  • Jalisco mud turtle +85
  • Jamaican slider +85
  • Japanese otter +85
  • Japanese pond turtle +85
  • Japanese water shrew +85
  • Jingdong water snake +85
  • Keelback +85
  • Khorat snail-eating turtle +85
  • Las Cajas water mouse +85
  • Leith's softshell turtle +85
  • Lesser capybara +85
  • Lesser Chinese softshell turtle +85
  • Loggerhead musk turtle +85
  • Lutrine opossum +85
  • Madagascan big-headed turtle +85
  • Magdalena River turtle +85
  • Magdalena-Cauca water rat +85
  • Malagasy hippopotamus +85
  • Malayan flat-shelled turtle +85
  • Malayan snail-eating turtle +85
  • Malayan softshell turtle +85
  • Malayan tapir +85
  • Malayan water shrew +85
  • Malaysian giant turtle +85
  • Manchurian black water snake +85
  • Mangrove monitor +85
  • Manning River turtle +85
  • Map turtle +85
  • Marsh mongoose +85
  • Marsh rice rat +85
  • Massoia's lutrine opossum +85
  • Matamata +85
  • Maximilian's snake-necked turtle +85
  • Mediterranean water shrew +85
  • Mekong snail-eating turtle +85
  • Merauke snapping turtle +85
  • Mertens' water monitor +85
  • Mesoamerican slider +85
  • Mexican black-bellied garter snake +85
  • Mexican mud turtle +85
  • Mexican musk turtle +85
  • Mexican water mouse +85
  • Mississippi map turtle +85
  • Mitchell's water monitor +85
  • Modest keelback +85
  • Moluccan sailfin lizard +85
  • Montane fish-eating rat +85
  • Morelet's crocodile +85
  • Mountain tapir +85
  • Mountain water rat +85
  • Mountain water snake +85
  • Mud snake +85
  • Mud turtle +85
  • Mugger crocodile +85
  • Murray River turtle +85
  • Musk turtle +85
  • Myanmar brown leaf turtle +85
  • Nabire snapping turtle +85
  • Namoi River snapping turtle +85
  • Narrow-bridged musk turtle +85
  • Narrow-headed garter snake +85
  • Nazas slider +85
  • Neotropical otter +85
  • New Britain water rat +85
  • New Guinea bockadam +85
  • New Guinea crocodile +85
  • New Guinea giant softshell turtle +85
  • New Guinea snake-necked turtle +85
  • New Guinea snapping turtle +85
  • New Guinea waterside rat +85
  • Nicaraguan rice rat +85
  • Nicaraguan slider +85
  • Nile monitor +85
  • Nimba otter shrew +85
  • North American water vole +85
  • Northern caiman lizard +85
  • Northern Chinese softshell turtle +85
  • Northern map turtle +85
  • Northern New Guinea giant softshell turtle +85
  • Northern red-bellied cooter +85
  • Northern red-faced turtle +85
  • Northern snake-necked turtle +85
  • Northern snapping turtle +85
  • Northern yellow-faced turtle +85
  • Nubian flapshell turtle +85
  • Oaxaca mud turtle +85
  • Okavango mud turtle +85
  • Oldham's leaf turtle +85
  • Olive keelback +85
  • Orinoco crocodile +85
  • Orinoco mata mata +85
  • Ornate slider +85
  • Osborn's dwarf crocodile +85
  • Otter civet +85
  • Otter shrew +85
  • Ouachita map turtle +85
  • Pacific water shrew +85
  • Painted terrapin +85
  • Paraguayan caiman lizard +85
  • Parker's snake-necked turtle +85
  • Pascagoula map turtle +85
  • Pearl River map turtle +85
  • Peninsula cooter +85
  • Philippine crocodile +85
  • Philippine sailfin lizard +85
  • Pig-nosed turtle +85
  • Pine's crab-eating rat +85
  • Pittier's crab-eating rat +85
  • Plainbelly water snake +85
  • Pritchard's snake-necked turtle +85
  • Proboscis monkey +85
  • Puff-faced water snake +85
  • Queen snake +85
  • Rainbow snake +85
  • Rainbow water snake +85
  • Razor-backed musk turtle +85
  • Red-bellied short-necked turtle +85
  • Red-crowned roofed turtle +85
  • Red-headed Amazon river turtle +85
  • Red-headed side-necked turtle +85
  • Red-necked keelback +85
  • Red-necked pond turtle +85
  • Reimann's snake-necked turtle +85
  • Rice paddy snake +85
  • Ringed map turtle +85
  • Rio Cauca anole +85
  • Rio Grande cooter +85
  • River cooter +85
  • River terrapin +85
  • Roofed turtle +85
  • Rough-footed mud turtle +85
  • Rough-necked monitor +85
  • Ruwenzori otter shrew +85
  • Sabine map turtle +85
  • Sailfin lizard +85
  • Sandstone snake-necked turtle +85
  • Savanna side-necked turtle +85
  • Saw-shelled turtle +85
  • Scorpion mud turtle +85
  • Senegal flapshell turtle +85
  • Serrated hinged terrapin +85
  • Shaw Mayer's water rat +85
  • Siamese crocodile +85
  • Side-necked turtle +85
  • Six-tubercled Amazon river turtle +85
  • Slender-snouted crocodile +85
  • Smooth softshell +85
  • Smooth-coated otter +85
  • Smooth-fronted caiman +85
  • Snake-necked turtle +85
  • Sonora mud turtle +85
  • South American snake-necked turtle +85
  • South American snapping turtle +85
  • South American tapir +85
  • South American water rat +85
  • South American water snake +85
  • Southern river otter +85
  • Southern river terrapin +85
  • Southwestern pond turtle +85
  • Southwestern snake-necked turtle +85
  • Spectacled caiman +85
  • Spiny softshell +85
  • Spotted softshell turtle +85
  • Spotted-necked otter +85
  • Sri Lankan flapshell turtle +85
  • Star-nosed mole +85
  • Stolzmann's crab-eating rat +85
  • Stripe-necked musk turtle +85
  • Striped keelback +85
  • Striped mud turtle +85
  • Striped swamp snake +85
  • Sulawesi black sailfin lizard +85
  • Sumatran water shrew +85
  • Sunda water shrew +85
  • Suwannee cooter +85
  • Suwannee snapping turtle +85
  • Swamp eel snake +85
  • Swamp rabbit +85
  • Tabasco mud turtle +85
  • Tentacled snake +85
  • Texas cooter +85
  • Texas map turtle +85
  • Thomas's water mouse +85
  • Three-striped roofed turtle +85
  • Tiger keelback +85
  • Toad-headed turtle +85
  • Transcaucasian water shrew +85
  • Trinidad water rat +85
  • Tucuxi +85
  • Tweedy's crab-eating rat +85
  • Twist-necked turtle +85
  • Ucayali water rat +85
  • Underwood's water mouse +85
  • Ungava seal +85
  • Upemba mud turtle +85
  • Vanderhaege's toad-headed turtle +85
  • Variable mud turtle +85
  • Vietnamese pond turtle +85
  • Viperine water snake +85
  • Voss' fish-eating rat +85
  • Water anole +85
  • Water chevrotain +85
  • Water coral snake +85
  • Water deer +85
  • Water dragon +85
  • Water mouse +85
  • Water opossum +85
  • Water python +85
  • Water shrew +85
  • Water skink +85
  • Wattle-necked softshell turtle +85
  • Weber's sailfin lizard +85
  • West African black turtle +85
  • West African crocodile +85
  • West African mud turtle +85
  • West African slender-snouted crocodile +85
  • Western Amazonian nectomys +85
  • Western pond turtle +85
  • Western water rat +85
  • White-bellied rice rat +85
  • White-lipped mud turtle +85
  • White-throated snapping turtle +85
  • Wild water buffalo +85
  • Williams' mud turtle +85
  • Williams' side-necked turtle +85
  • Wologizi wading rat +85
  • Wood turtle +85
  • Yacare caiman +85
  • Yangtze finless porpoise +85
  • Yangtze giant softshell turtle +85
  • Yaqui slider +85
  • Yellow anaconda +85
  • Yellow mud turtle +85
  • Yellow pond turtle +85
  • Yellow-bellied mud turtle +85
  • Yellow-bellied slider +85
  • Yellow-blotched map turtle +85
  • Yellow-headed temple turtle +85
  • Yellow-spotted river turtle +85
  • Yunnan water snake +85
  • Zambezi flapshell turtle +85
  • Ziegler's water rat +85
  • Zulia toad-headed sideneck +85
Rare +60 27 answers — tap to reveal
  • Alligator snapping turtle +60
  • Amazon river dolphin +60
  • American crocodile +60
  • Basilisk +60
  • Black caiman +60
  • Desman +60
  • Freshwater crocodile +60
  • Ganges river dolphin +60
  • Gharial +60
  • Giant otter +60
  • Green iguana +60 Lives in trees over rivers and dives in to escape danger.
  • Manatee +60
  • Mink +60
  • Muskrat +60
  • Nile crocodile +60
  • Nutria +60
  • Painted turtle +60
  • Pygmy hippopotamus +60
  • Red-eared slider +60
  • River dolphin +60
  • Saltwater crocodile +60
  • Softshell turtle +60
  • Tapir +60
  • Water buffalo +60
  • Water monitor +60
  • Water vole +60
  • West Indian manatee +60
Schooler +30 8 answers — tap to reveal
  • Anaconda +30
  • Caiman +30
  • Capybara +30
  • Cottonmouth +30
  • Platypus +30
  • Snapping turtle +30
  • Turtle +30
  • Water snake +30
Plankton +10 5 answers — tap to reveal
  • Alligator +10
  • Beaver +10
  • Crocodile +10
  • Hippopotamus +10
  • Otter +10