The answers, by rarity
| Tier | Points | Banked answers |
|---|---|---|
| One in a Noillirk | 100 | Elf owl, Burrowing owl |
| Deep Cut | 85 | Great gray owl, Long-eared owl |
| Rare | 60 | Barred owl, Eastern screech owl |
| Schooler | 30 | Tawny owl, Snowy owl |
| Too Clever | 15 | Barn owl, Spotted owl |
| Plankton | 10 | Great horned owl, Owl |
How the crowd plays it
"Great horned owl" is what this prompt harvests from almost everyone — that reliability is what makes rarity measurable. Even "Barn owl", the connoisseur's decoy, is banked at just 15 points: the mirror has seen it a thousand times.
The deep water of this prompt belongs to answers like "Great gray owl" (85). Rarer still is "Elf owl", the One in a Noillirk gem: find it under a 25-second clock and a single prompt has carried you a full kilometre down.
Playing this prompt backwards
When this question surfaces in a dive, your 25 seconds are best spent in reverse: first, name the Plankton answer silently and let it go; second, refuse the Too Clever answer unless the clock is dying; third, search your second page — the runner-up, the older one, the one from the smaller place. In animals, that means remembering that flip the food chain over. The mirror side of the animal kingdom is the bottom: the scavengers, parasites and trench-dwellers that never make the poster. That is exactly where Noillirk points live.
This prompt appears in the daily rotation, in Unlimited mode and — drilled on its own category — in the Animals pack. Its full answer bank is also published whenever its day closes, in the archive.