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
- Magnocellular neurosecretory cellDeep Cut85points
- Major basic proteinDeep Cut85points
- Major facilitator superfamily domain containing 14ADeep Cut85points
- Major facilitator superfamily domain containing 2BDeep Cut85points
- Major histocompatibility complex, class I-relatedDeep Cut85points
- Major vault proteinDeep Cut85points
- MALAT1Deep Cut85points
- Malate dehydrogenaseDeep Cut85points
- Malate dehydrogenase, cytoplasmicDeep Cut85points
- Malate dehydrogenase, mitochondrialDeep Cut85points
- Male accessory-gland duct cellDeep Cut85points
- Maleylacetoacetate isomeraseDeep Cut85points
- Maleylacetoacetic acidDeep Cut85points
- Malic acidDeep Cut85points
- Malic enzyme 1Deep Cut85points
- Malic enzyme 2Deep Cut85points
- Malignant acrospiromaDeep Cut85points
- Malignant chondroid syringomaDeep Cut85points
- Malignant fibrous histiocytomaDeep Cut85points
- Malignant Leydig cell tumorDeep Cut85points
- Malignant meningiomaDeep Cut85points
- Malignant mixed tumorDeep Cut85points
- Malignant peripheral nerve sheath tumorDeep Cut85points
- Malignant Sertoli-Leydig cell tumorDeep Cut85points
- Malignant triton tumorDeep Cut85points
- Mallory bodiesDeep Cut85points
- Malonate—CoA ligaseDeep Cut85points
- MalondialdehydeDeep Cut85points
- Malonic acidDeep Cut85points
- malonyl-carnitineDeep Cut85points
- Malonyl-CoADeep Cut85points
- Malonyl-CoA decarboxylaseDeep Cut85points
- MALT lymphomaDeep Cut85points
- MaltaseDeep Cut85points
- maltoheptaoseDeep Cut85points
- maltohexaoseDeep Cut85points
- maltononaoseDeep Cut85points
- maltopentaoseDeep Cut85points
- MaltoseDeep Cut85points
- maltotetraoseDeep Cut85points
- MaltotrioseDeep Cut85points
- MammaglobinDeep Cut85points
- Mammaglobin-BDeep Cut85points
- Mammalian ependymin-related protein 1Deep Cut85points
- Mammary analogue secretory carcinomaDeep Cut85points
- Mammary basal-myoepithelial cellDeep Cut85points
- Mammary luminal hormone-sensing cellDeep Cut85points
- Mammary luminal secretory precursor cellDeep Cut85points
- Mammary myofibroblastomaDeep Cut85points
- Mammary tumorDeep 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.