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
- Keratin 19Deep Cut85points
- Keratin 20Deep Cut85points
- Keratin 2ADeep Cut85points
- Keratin 3Deep Cut85points
- Keratin 34Deep Cut85points
- Keratin 4Deep Cut85points
- Keratin 5Deep Cut85points
- Keratin 6ADeep Cut85points
- Keratin 6BDeep Cut85points
- Keratin 6CDeep Cut85points
- Keratin 7Deep Cut85points
- Keratin 8Deep Cut85points
- Keratin 9Deep Cut85points
- Keratin associated protein 5-6Deep Cut85points
- Keratin-associated proteinDeep Cut85points
- KeratinocyteDeep Cut85points
- Keratinocyte differentiation-associated proteinDeep Cut85points
- Keratinocyte growth factorDeep Cut85points
- Keratinocyte transglutaminaseDeep Cut85points
- KeratoacanthomaDeep Cut85points
- KeratocanDeep Cut85points
- KeratohyalinDeep Cut85points
- Ketimine reductase mu-crystallinDeep Cut85points
- Keto acidsDeep Cut85points
- KetohexokinaseDeep Cut85points
- Ketosamine-3-kinaseDeep Cut85points
- Kiaa1107Deep Cut85points
- KICSTOR subunit 2Deep Cut85points
- Kidd antibodiesDeep Cut85points
- Kidney cellDeep Cut85points
- Kidney clear cell sarcomaDeep Cut85points
- Kidney cystDeep Cut85points
- Kidney distal tubule cellDeep Cut85points
- KIF-binding proteinDeep Cut85points
- Killer cell immunoglobulin-like receptor 2DL3Deep Cut85points
- Killer-cell immunoglobulin-like receptorDeep Cut85points
- KinaseDeep Cut85points
- Kinase insert domain receptorDeep Cut85points
- Kinase suppressor of Ras 1Deep Cut85points
- Kinase suppressor of Ras 2Deep Cut85points
- KinesinDeep Cut85points
- Kinesin heavy chain isoform 5ADeep Cut85points
- Kinesin-associated protein 3Deep Cut85points
- Kinesin-like protein KIF11Deep Cut85points
- Kinesin-like protein KIF1ADeep Cut85points
- Kinesin-like protein KIF1BDeep Cut85points
- KinetensinDeep Cut85points
- Kinetensin 1-3Deep Cut85points
- Kinetensin 1-7Deep Cut85points
- Kinetensin 1-8Deep 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.