Name a substance the human body produces

November 2, 2026 · Daily Dive #110

Explore 12,456 recorded answers and their points for question 1 on November 2, 2026.

Dated record7 questions · 124,517 recorded answers

12,456 recorded names on November 2, 2026, 12,189 at 85 or higher. The highest recorded score on this question is 100.

The body is a chemical workshop rather than a set of familiar fluids, so the best guesses come from its processes: energy use, signalling, defence, repair and waste removal all leave named compounds behind. Molecules the body assembles itself count, from a tiny metabolic acid to a large enzyme complex; anything absorbed ready-made from outside, given as a medicine, or manufactured only by resident microbes does not.

12,456 recorded answers12,189 at 85+ points100 highest recorded points
  • One in a Krillion1100 pts
  • Deep Cut12,18885 pts
  • Rare21060 pts
  • Schooler5030 pts
  • Plankton710 pts
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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
  • NADH-ubiquinone oxidoreductase chain 4Deep Cut85points
  • NADH-ubiquinone oxidoreductase chain 4LDeep Cut85points
  • NADH-ubiquinone oxidoreductase chain 5Deep Cut85points
  • NADH-ubiquinone oxidoreductase chain 6Deep Cut85points
  • NADP-retinol dehydrogenaseDeep Cut85points
  • NADPH dehydrogenaseDeep Cut85points
  • NADPH dehydrogenase (quinone)Deep Cut85points
  • NADPH oxidaseDeep Cut85points
  • NADPH oxidase 4Deep Cut85points
  • NADPH peroxidaseDeep Cut85points
  • NADPH-dependent 3-demethoxyubiquinone 3-hydroxylase, mitochondrialDeep Cut85points
  • NADPH-dependent quinone oxidoreductase VAT1Deep Cut85points
  • NADPH-dependent quinone oxidoreductase VAT1LDeep Cut85points
  • Nail bedDeep Cut85points
  • Nail matrixDeep Cut85points
  • Nail matrix keratinocyteDeep Cut85points
  • Naive B cellDeep Cut85points
  • Naive T cellDeep Cut85points
  • Naked cuticle 1Deep Cut85points
  • Naked cuticle 2Deep Cut85points
  • NandroloneDeep Cut85points
  • Napsin-ADeep Cut85points
  • NardilysinDeep Cut85points
  • Nasal chondrocyteDeep Cut85points
  • Nasal gliomaDeep Cut85points
  • Nascent polypeptide-associated complexDeep Cut85points
  • Nasopharyngeal angiofibromaDeep Cut85points
  • Nasopharynx carcinomaDeep Cut85points
  • Natriuretic peptidesDeep Cut85points
  • Natural antibodiesDeep Cut85points
  • Natural killer cellDeep Cut85points
  • Natural killer T cellDeep Cut85points
  • Natural moisturizing factorDeep Cut85points
  • Natural resistance-associated macrophage protein 1Deep Cut85points
  • Natural resistance-associated macrophage protein 2Deep Cut85points
  • NEAT1Deep Cut85points
  • NebuletteDeep Cut85points
  • NebulinDeep Cut85points
  • NectinDeep Cut85points
  • Nectin-2Deep Cut85points
  • Nectin-3Deep Cut85points
  • Nectin-4Deep Cut85points
  • NEDD4 family-interacting protein 1Deep Cut85points
  • NEDD4-like E3 ubiquitin-protein ligase WWP1Deep Cut85points
  • NEDD4-like E3 ubiquitin-protein ligase WWP2Deep Cut85points
  • NEDD8-activating enzyme E1 catalytic subunitDeep Cut85points
  • NEDD8-conjugating enzyme Ubc12Deep Cut85points
  • NEDD8-conjugating enzyme UBE2FDeep Cut85points
  • Negative elongation factor ADeep Cut85points
  • Negative elongation factor BDeep 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.

Recorded from the game’s published reveal · Source · Checked 2 Nov, 14:30 UTC

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