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
- Matrix metalloproteinase-16Deep Cut85points
- Matrix metalloproteinase-17Deep Cut85points
- Matrix metalloproteinase-19Deep Cut85points
- Matrix metalloproteinase-2Deep Cut85points
- Matrix metalloproteinase-20Deep Cut85points
- Matrix metalloproteinase-21Deep Cut85points
- Matrix metalloproteinase-24Deep Cut85points
- Matrix metalloproteinase-25Deep Cut85points
- Matrix metalloproteinase-26Deep Cut85points
- Matrix metalloproteinase-28Deep Cut85points
- Matrix metalloproteinase-9Deep Cut85points
- Matrix-remodeling-associated protein 5Deep Cut85points
- MAX dimerization protein MGADeep Cut85points
- MDA5Deep Cut85points
- mDia1Deep Cut85points
- Mdm2Deep Cut85points
- Mead acidDeep Cut85points
- MeckelinDeep Cut85points
- Mediastinal cystDeep Cut85points
- Mediastinal large B cell lymphomaDeep Cut85points
- Mediastinal malignant germ cell tumorDeep Cut85points
- Medium spiny neuronDeep Cut85points
- Medium-chain acyl-CoA dehydrogenaseDeep Cut85points
- Medullary breast carcinomaDeep Cut85points
- Medullary carcinomaDeep Cut85points
- Medullary hair shaft cellDeep Cut85points
- Medullary inspiratory neuronDeep Cut85points
- Medullary thymic epithelial cellDeep Cut85points
- MedulloblastomaDeep Cut85points
- MegakaryoblastDeep Cut85points
- MegakaryocyteDeep Cut85points
- Megakaryocyte-associated tyrosine kinaseDeep Cut85points
- Megakaryocyte-erythroid progenitor cellDeep Cut85points
- MegaloblastDeep Cut85points
- MeglutolDeep Cut85points
- Meibomian gland cellDeep Cut85points
- MeibumDeep Cut85points
- Melanin-concentrating hormoneDeep Cut85points
- Melanin-concentrating hormone receptor 1Deep Cut85points
- Melanin-concentrating hormone receptor 2Deep Cut85points
- MelanoacanthomaDeep Cut85points
- MelanoblastDeep Cut85points
- Melanocortin 1 receptorDeep Cut85points
- Melanocortin 2 receptor accessory proteinDeep Cut85points
- Melanocortin 3 receptorDeep Cut85points
- Melanocortin 4 receptorDeep Cut85points
- Melanocortin 5 receptorDeep Cut85points
- Melanocortin receptorDeep Cut85points
- MelanocortinsDeep Cut85points
- MelanocyteDeep 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.