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
- Mitochondrial antiviral-signaling proteinDeep Cut85points
- Mitochondrial calcium uniporterDeep Cut85points
- Mitochondrial dicarboxylate carrierDeep Cut85points
- Mitochondrial DNADeep Cut85points
- Mitochondrial dynamics protein MID49Deep Cut85points
- Mitochondrial ferritinDeep Cut85points
- Mitochondrial fission factorDeep Cut85points
- Mitochondrial folate transporterDeep Cut85points
- Mitochondrial glycine transporterDeep Cut85points
- Mitochondrial inner membrane subdomain organizer 1Deep Cut85points
- Mitochondrial intermediate peptidaseDeep Cut85points
- Mitochondrial ornithine transporter 1Deep Cut85points
- Mitochondrial peptide methionine sulfoxide reductaseDeep Cut85points
- Mitochondrial processing peptidaseDeep Cut85points
- Mitochondrial pyruvate carrier 2Deep Cut85points
- Mitochondrial ribosomal protein L1Deep Cut85points
- Mitochondrial ribosomal protein L10Deep Cut85points
- Mitochondrial ribosomal protein L11Deep Cut85points
- Mitochondrial ribosomal protein L12Deep Cut85points
- Mitochondrial ribosomal protein L13Deep Cut85points
- Mitochondrial ribosomal protein L15Deep Cut85points
- Mitochondrial ribosomal protein L17Deep Cut85points
- Mitochondrial ribosomal protein L18Deep Cut85points
- Mitochondrial ribosomal protein L19Deep Cut85points
- Mitochondrial ribosomal protein L20Deep Cut85points
- Mitochondrial ribosomal protein L22Deep Cut85points
- Mitochondrial ribosomal protein L23Deep Cut85points
- Mitochondrial ribosomal protein L24Deep Cut85points
- Mitochondrial ribosomal protein L28Deep Cut85points
- Mitochondrial ribosomal protein L3Deep Cut85points
- Mitochondrial ribosomal protein L30Deep Cut85points
- Mitochondrial ribosomal protein L32Deep Cut85points
- Mitochondrial ribosomal protein L33Deep Cut85points
- Mitochondrial ribosomal protein L37Deep Cut85points
- Mitochondrial ribosomal protein L39Deep Cut85points
- Mitochondrial ribosomal protein L4Deep Cut85points
- Mitochondrial ribosomal protein L40Deep Cut85points
- Mitochondrial ribosomal protein L41Deep Cut85points
- Mitochondrial ribosomal protein L42Deep Cut85points
- Mitochondrial ribosomal protein S11Deep Cut85points
- Mitochondrial ribosomal protein S12Deep Cut85points
- Mitochondrial ribosomal protein S16Deep Cut85points
- Mitochondrial ribosomal protein S17Deep Cut85points
- Mitochondrial ribosomal protein S2Deep Cut85points
- Mitochondrial ribosomal protein S21Deep Cut85points
- Mitochondrial ribosomal protein S22Deep Cut85points
- Mitochondrial ribosomal protein S24Deep Cut85points
- Mitochondrial ribosomal protein S25Deep Cut85points
- Mitochondrial ribosomal protein S26Deep Cut85points
- Mitochondrial ribosomal protein S28Deep 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.