Animals prompt
Name a wild dog — Best Krillion Answers
Facing “Name a wild dog” 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: African wild dog — specific, valid, and uncommon enough for Deep Cut or better.
Avoid (Plankton): Wolf, Wild dog — correct, but the crowd's first thought.
One in a Krillion — 100 pts
The rarest valid answers — maximum depth.
African wild dog · Dhole
Deep Cut — 85 pts
Extremely rare picks most players miss.
Maned wolf · Bush dog
Rare — 60 pts
Genuinely uncommon — strong scoring.
Dingo · Ethiopian wolf
Schooler — 30 pts
Known but not top-of-mind.
Coyote · Golden jackal
Too Clever — 15 pts
A bit too obvious.
Gray wolf · Red wolf
Plankton — 10 pts
The crowd's default — avoid these.
Wolf · Wild dog
How to play this prompt
Strategy notes specific to “Name a wild dog” — not generic advice.
The zoo favorites are all Plankton. Rare answers live in the less-photographed corners of the animal kingdom.
Lead with African wild dog. It's the kind of answer that makes other players say 'I knew that!' after the reveal — which is exactly why they didn't type it. Maned wolf works the same way if you want a second bullet in the chamber.
Watch out for Wolf. It's valid, but validity isn't the game — rarity is. Wild dog has the same problem: everyone knows it, so everyone types it, so it scores like everyone.
Notice how Dingo (Rare) outscores Wolf (Plankton) without being obscure at all. Rarity isn't about difficulty — it's about what the crowd overlooks.
Rare answers travel in packs: if Bush dog comes to mind, Ethiopian wolf and Maned wolf 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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