Animals prompt
Name a type of monkey — Best Krillion Answers
Facing “Name a type of monkey” in a dive? Here is how to think rare: the best picks, the safe backups, and the crowd defaults to avoid. Every answer below is real and valid — rarity decides the tier.
Best rare pick: Proboscis monkey — specific, valid, and uncommon enough for Deep Cut or better.
Avoid (Plankton): Squirrel monkey, Barbary macaque — correct, but the crowd's first thought.
One in a Krillion — 100 pts
The rarest valid answers — maximum depth.
Proboscis monkey · Gelada
Deep Cut — 85 pts
Extremely rare picks most players miss.
Mandrill · Drill
Rare — 60 pts
Genuinely uncommon — strong scoring.
Howler monkey · Spider monkey
Schooler — 30 pts
Known but not top-of-mind.
Capuchin monkey · Macaque
Too Clever — 15 pts
A bit too obvious.
Baboon · Colobus monkey
Plankton — 10 pts
The crowd's default — avoid these.
Squirrel monkey · Barbary macaque
How to play this prompt
Strategy notes specific to “Name a type of monkey” — not generic advice.
Animal prompts look friendly until you realize everyone names the same five creatures.
The winning instinct on this one: skip your first thought entirely and type your second. Proboscis monkey is a perfect example — completely valid, just not the reflex answer. Mandrill plays the same role as a backup.
Watch out for Squirrel monkey. It's valid, but validity isn't the game — rarity is. Barbary macaque has the same problem: everyone knows it, so everyone types it, so it scores like everyone.
Notice how Howler monkey (Rare) outscores Squirrel monkey (Plankton) without being obscure at all. Rarity isn't about difficulty — it's about what the crowd overlooks.
Rare answers travel in packs: if Drill comes to mind, Spider monkey and Mandrill are usually one thought away. Train yourself to pull the whole cluster, not just the first name that surfaces.
Rated 2/5 difficulty — 12 banked answers give you room to match, so the real skill is picking the rare ones, not just valid ones.
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