Recorded answers
12,456 recorded answers
How to approach it
Approach the prompt as a chemistry problem hiding inside ordinary language. Begin with the outputs you could name in a sentence, then deliberately drop one level: which tissue builds it, from which precursor, under which enzyme, and what does the finished molecule get called in a metabolic index? The reveal here was plainly generated from a large compound catalogue, so breadth of coverage matters more than tidy phrasing. After a few safe everyday entries, push into pathways — lipid handling, steroid conversion, amino acid breakdown, sugar interconversion, inflammatory signalling — and give the systematic chemical name instead of the nickname. Keep every guess to a single substance, spell it the way a database would, and drop anything the body merely absorbs, receives as a medicine, or hosts from outside.
Get a hint
Body systems make a better map than single organs: digestion, circulation, hormone signalling, immune defence and waste clearance each leave distinct chemical traces that qualify as substances the body has produced.
A little more
Then move to process: whatever is built during synthesis, released during signalling, burned for energy or broken down for excretion is fair game, including short-lived intermediates that never reach an easily named fluid.
One step further
Aim for named chemical families rather than everyday words — acids, salts, alcohols, esters, sugar conjugates, glycoproteins and their carrier-bound forms — and include the long systematic names that only a metabolic database would list.
Reveal answers 12,456
- Hair bulbDeep Cut85points
- Hair cellDeep Cut85points
- Hair cortexDeep Cut85points
- Hair cuticleDeep Cut85points
- Hair follicle nevusDeep Cut85points
- Hair medullaDeep Cut85points
- Haloacid dehalogenase like hydrolase domain containing 5Deep Cut85points
- HamartomaDeep Cut85points
- HaptocorrinDeep Cut85points
- HaptoglobinDeep Cut85points
- Haptoglobin-related proteinDeep Cut85points
- Hard tissueDeep Cut85points
- HarmaneDeep Cut85points
- Harmonin (USH1C)Deep Cut85points
- Hassall's corpuscle epithelial cellDeep Cut85points
- HBS1-like proteinDeep Cut85points
- Head and neck squamous cell carcinomaDeep Cut85points
- Head direction cellDeep Cut85points
- Heart-type fatty acid binding proteinDeep Cut85points
- Heat shock cognate 71 kDa proteinDeep Cut85points
- Heat shock factor protein 1Deep Cut85points
- Heat shock protein 60Deep Cut85points
- Heat shock protein 90kDa alpha (cytosolic), member A1Deep Cut85points
- Heat shock protein beta-6Deep Cut85points
- Heat shock protein family A (Hsp70) member 12BDeep Cut85points
- Heat shock protein HSP 90-betaDeep Cut85points
- Heat shock proteinsDeep Cut85points
- Heat-sensitive primary sensory neuronDeep Cut85points
- Heberden's nodesDeep Cut85points
- HECT domain and ankyrin repeat containing E3 ubiquitin protein ligase 1Deep Cut85points
- Hedgehog-interacting proteinDeep Cut85points
- HelicaseDeep Cut85points
- Helicase senataxinDeep Cut85points
- Helicase, POLQ-likeDeep Cut85points
- Helper T cellDeep Cut85points
- HemangioblastDeep Cut85points
- HemangioblastomaDeep Cut85points
- HemangiomaDeep Cut85points
- HemangiosarcomaDeep Cut85points
- Hematopoietic stem cellDeep Cut85points
- HemeDeep Cut85points
- Heme ADeep Cut85points
- Heme A synthase COX15Deep Cut85points
- Heme CDeep Cut85points
- Heme ODeep Cut85points
- Heme oxygenaseDeep Cut85points
- Heme oxygenase 1Deep Cut85points
- Heme oxygenase 2Deep Cut85points
- Heme-transporting ATPaseDeep Cut85points
- Hemicentin 1Deep Cut85points
Why these answers count
Scoring tracked obscurity rather than plausibility across 12223 recorded answers. Everyday entries — a hormone, a digestive fluid, a structural protein — drew so many identical submissions that they sank into the crowded tail, while names lifted from a comprehensive metabolic index rose to the top. The single 100-point answer, Lubricin, is a joint-lining glycoprotein most players would never reach, which is precisely why it was scarce and expensive. The 85-point band, with 11967 entries, is where the long systematic names live: (10Z,13Z,16Z)-docosatrienoic acid, (11R)-HPETE, (13Z)-octadecenoyl-CoA and dozens more fatty acid, carnitine and coenzyme A conjugates. These are genuine products of human enzymes, yet nobody writes them from memory, so few guesses matched. Only 201 answers scored 60, the consolation band for mid-rare picks. The lesson: the reveal drew on a catalogue of tens of thousands of compounds, and points rose with how unlikely a name was to be guessed rather than with how central it is to human biology.