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.

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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
  • 3(R)-hydroxy-(4R,8R,12R)-trimethyl-tridecanoyl-CoADeep Cut85points
  • 3(S)-2-hydroxyphytanoyl-CoADeep Cut85points
  • 3(S)-3-hydroxydodecen-(5Z)-oyl-CoADeep Cut85points
  • 3(S)-hydroxy-(5Z,8Z)-tetradecadienoyl-CoADeep Cut85points
  • 3(S)-hydroxy-(6Z,9Z,12Z)-octadecatrienoyl-CoADeep Cut85points
  • 3(S)-hydroxy-10,13,16-all-cis-docosatrienoyl-CoADeep Cut85points
  • 3(S)-hydroxy-11-cis-docosenoyl-CoADeep Cut85points
  • 3(S)-hydroxy-11-cis-eicosenoyl-CoADeep Cut85points
  • 3(S)-hydroxy-13-cis-docosenoyl-CoADeep Cut85points
  • 3(S)-hydroxy-13-cis-eicosenoyl-CoADeep Cut85points
  • 3(S)-hydroxy-2(S),6-dimethyl-heptanoyl-CoADeep Cut85points
  • 3(S)-hydroxy-3-oxo-eicosadienoyl-CoADeep Cut85points
  • 3(S)-hydroxy-4-methyl-pentanoyl-CoADeep Cut85points
  • 3(S)-hydroxy-4(R),8-dimethyl-nonanoyl-CoADeep Cut85points
  • 3(S)-hydroxy-9-cis-eicosenoyl-CoADeep Cut85points
  • 3(S)-hydroxy-all-cis-8,11,14,17-eicosatetraenoyl-CoADeep Cut85points
  • 3(S)-hydroxy-cis-15-tetracosaenoyl-CoADeep Cut85points
  • 3(S)-hydroxy-cis-9-octadecenoyl-CoADeep Cut85points
  • 3(S)-hydroxy-dihomo-gamma-linolenoyl-CoADeep Cut85points
  • 3(S)-hydroxy-docosa-10,13,16,19-all-cis-tetraenoyl-CoADeep Cut85points
  • 3(S)-hydroxy-docosa-13,16,19-all-cis-trienoyl-CoADeep Cut85points
  • 3(S)-hydroxy-docosa-7,10,13,16-all-cis-tetraenoyl-CoADeep Cut85points
  • 3(S)-hydroxy-docosa-7,10,13,16,19-all-cis-pentaenoyl-CoADeep Cut85points
  • 3(S)-hydroxy-hexacosenoyl-CoADeep Cut85points
  • 3(S)-hydroxy-tetracosa-12,15,18,21-all-cis-tetraenoyl-CoADeep Cut85points
  • 3(S)-hydroxy-tetracosa-6,9,12,15,18-all-cis-pentaenoyl-CoADeep Cut85points
  • 3(S)-hydroxy-tetracosa-9,12,15,18,21-all-cis-pentaenoyl-CoADeep Cut85points
  • 3(S),10(R)-OH-octadeca-6-trans-4,12-cis-trienoateDeep Cut85points
  • 3(S),10(R)-OH-octadeca-6-trans-4,12-cis-trienoyl-CoADeep Cut85points
  • 3(S),12(R)-dihydroxy-5-oxo-eicosa-(8E,10E,14Z)-trienoyl-CoADeep Cut85points
  • 3(S),12(S)-dihydroxy-5-oxo-eicosa-(8E,10E,14Z)-trienoyl-CoADeep Cut85points
  • 3(S),5(S),12(R)-trihydroxy-eicosa-8-trans-6,14-cis-trienoyl-CoADeep Cut85points
  • 3(S),6(R)-dihydroxy-tetradec-(8Z)-enoateDeep Cut85points
  • 3(S),6(S)-dihydroxy-tetradec-(8Z)-enoateDeep Cut85points
  • 3(S),8(R)-dihydroxy-(6E,10Z)-hexadecadienoateDeep Cut85points
  • 3(S),8(S)-dihydroxy-(6E,10Z)-hexadecadienoateDeep Cut85points
  • 3alpha,7alpha-dihydroxy-24-oxo-5beta-cholestanoyl coaDeep Cut85points
  • 3alpha,7alpha-dihydroxy-5beta-cholest-24-enoyl-CoADeep Cut85points
  • 3alpha,7alpha-dihydroxy-5beta-cholestan-27-alDeep Cut85points
  • 3alpha,7alpha,12alpha-trihydroxy-5beta-24-oxocholestanoyl-CoADeep Cut85points
  • 3alpha,7alpha,12alpha-trihydroxy-5beta-cholest-24-enoyl-CoADeep Cut85points
  • 3alpha,7alpha,12alpha-trihydroxy-5beta-cholest-24-enoyl-CoA hydrataseDeep Cut85points
  • 3alpha,7alpha,12alpha,24(S)-tetrahydroxy-5beta-cholestan-27-alDeep Cut85points
  • 3alpha,7alpha,12alpha,25-tetrahydroxy-5beta-cholestane-24-oneDeep Cut85points
  • 3alpha,7alpha,24(S)-trihydroxy-5beta-cholestan-27-alDeep Cut85points
  • 3alpha(17beta)-hydroxysteroid dehydrogenase (NAD+)Deep Cut85points
  • 3beta-hydroxy-5-cholestenalDeep Cut85points
  • 3beta-hydroxy-5-cholestene-27-oateDeep Cut85points
  • 3beta,7alpha-dihydroxy-5-cholestenoateDeep Cut85points
  • 3beta(or 20alpha)-hydroxysteroid dehydrogenaseDeep 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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