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
- Interleukin-25Deep Cut85points
- Interleukin-26Deep Cut85points
- Interleukin-27Deep Cut85points
- Interleukin-27 subunit betaDeep Cut85points
- Interleukin-28Deep Cut85points
- Interleukin-29Deep Cut85points
- Interleukin-3Deep Cut85points
- Interleukin-3 receptorDeep Cut85points
- Interleukin-30Deep Cut85points
- Interleukin-31Deep Cut85points
- Interleukin-32Deep Cut85points
- Interleukin-33Deep Cut85points
- Interleukin-34Deep Cut85points
- Interleukin-35Deep Cut85points
- Interleukin-36Deep Cut85points
- Interleukin-36 alphaDeep Cut85points
- Interleukin-36 betaDeep Cut85points
- Interleukin-36 gammaDeep Cut85points
- Interleukin-36 receptor antagonistDeep Cut85points
- Interleukin-37Deep Cut85points
- Interleukin-38Deep Cut85points
- Interleukin-4Deep Cut85points
- Interleukin-4 receptorDeep Cut85points
- Interleukin-40Deep Cut85points
- Interleukin-5Deep Cut85points
- Interleukin-6Deep Cut85points
- Interleukin-6 receptorDeep Cut85points
- Interleukin-7Deep Cut85points
- Interleukin-7 receptor-αDeep Cut85points
- Interleukin-8Deep Cut85points
- Interleukin-9Deep Cut85points
- Interleukin-9 receptorDeep Cut85points
- Intermediate filamentDeep Cut85points
- Intermediate progenitor cellDeep Cut85points
- Intermediate skeletal muscle cellDeep Cut85points
- InterneuronDeep Cut85points
- InternexinDeep Cut85points
- Interphotoreceptor matrix proteoglycan 1Deep Cut85points
- Interphotoreceptor matrix proteoglycan 2Deep Cut85points
- Intersectin 1Deep Cut85points
- Intersectin 2Deep Cut85points
- Interstitial cellDeep Cut85points
- Interstitial cell of CajalDeep Cut85points
- Interstitial fluidDeep Cut85points
- Intestinal juiceDeep Cut85points
- Intestinal stem cellDeep Cut85points
- Intradermal spindle cell lipomaDeep Cut85points
- Intraductal carcinoma of the breastDeep Cut85points
- Intraepithelial lymphocyteDeep Cut85points
- Intraflagellar transport protein 46 homologDeep 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.