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
- Nucleolar protein 56Deep Cut85points
- Nucleolar protein, member A1Deep Cut85points
- Nucleolar RNA helicase 2Deep Cut85points
- NucleolinDeep Cut85points
- Nucleolus and neural progenitor proteinDeep Cut85points
- NucleophosminDeep Cut85points
- NucleoplasmDeep Cut85points
- Nucleoplasmin-2Deep Cut85points
- Nucleoplasmin-3Deep Cut85points
- Nucleoporin 107Deep Cut85points
- Nucleoporin 153Deep Cut85points
- Nucleoporin 155Deep Cut85points
- Nucleoporin 160Deep Cut85points
- Nucleoporin 188Deep Cut85points
- Nucleoporin 205Deep Cut85points
- Nucleoporin 210kDaDeep Cut85points
- Nucleoporin 214Deep Cut85points
- Nucleoporin 35Deep Cut85points
- Nucleoporin 37Deep Cut85points
- Nucleoporin 43Deep Cut85points
- Nucleoporin 50Deep Cut85points
- Nucleoporin 54Deep Cut85points
- Nucleoporin 85Deep Cut85points
- Nucleoporin 88Deep Cut85points
- Nucleoporin 93Deep Cut85points
- Nucleoporin NUP42Deep Cut85points
- Nucleoporin p58/p45Deep Cut85points
- NucleoporinsDeep Cut85points
- NucleosidaseDeep Cut85points
- Nucleoside diphosphate kinaseDeep Cut85points
- Nucleoside diphosphate kinase ADeep Cut85points
- Nucleoside diphosphate kinase BDeep Cut85points
- Nucleoside diphosphate kinase CDeep Cut85points
- Nucleoside diphosphate kinase D, mitochondrialDeep Cut85points
- Nucleoside diphosphate phosphatase ENTPD5Deep Cut85points
- Nucleoside phosphotransferaseDeep Cut85points
- Nucleoside triphosphatesDeep Cut85points
- Nucleoside-phosphate kinaseDeep Cut85points
- Nucleoside-triphosphataseDeep Cut85points
- NucleosidesDeep Cut85points
- Nucleosome assembly protein 1 like 5Deep Cut85points
- Nucleotide diphosphataseDeep Cut85points
- Nucleotide sugarsDeep Cut85points
- NucleotidesDeep Cut85points
- NucleotidyltransferaseDeep Cut85points
- Nucleus pulposusDeep Cut85points
- Nucleus pulposus cellDeep Cut85points
- Nudix hydrolase 15Deep Cut85points
- Nudix hydrolase 6Deep Cut85points
- Null cellDeep 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.