The answers, by rarity
| Tier | Points | Banked answers |
|---|---|---|
| One in a Noillirk | 100 | Pygmy right whale, Omura's whale |
| Deep Cut | 85 | Beluga whale, Narwhal |
| Rare | 60 | Sperm whale, Gray whale |
| Schooler | 30 | Fin whale, Bowhead whale |
| Too Clever | 15 | Blue whale, Right whale |
| Plankton | 10 | Humpback whale, Orca |
How the crowd plays it
The crowd's reflex here is "Humpback whale" — correct, instant, and worth a Plankton 10. The second reflex, "Blue whale", belongs to the Too Clever tier: it sounds like a deep cut and lands like a cliché, because every confident player reaches for it in the same second.
Swim past the school and the ladder thins out fast: "Beluga whale" earns a Deep Cut 85, the mark of a player who reads second pages. The trench floor of this prompt is "Pygmy right whale" — one banked answer, 100 points, no company.
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.