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
  • Phosphoribosylglycinamide formyltransferaseDeep Cut85points
  • PhosphorylaseDeep Cut85points
  • Phosphorylase b kinase gamma catalytic chain, liver/testis isoformDeep Cut85points
  • Phosphorylase b kinase gamma catalytic chain, skeletal muscle/heart isoformDeep Cut85points
  • Phosphorylase kinaseDeep Cut85points
  • Phosphorylase kinase, alpha 1Deep Cut85points
  • PhosphoserineDeep Cut85points
  • Phosphoserine aminotransferaseDeep Cut85points
  • Phosphoserine phosphataseDeep Cut85points
  • PhosphotransferaseDeep Cut85points
  • PhosphotyrosineDeep Cut85points
  • Phosphotyrosine interaction domain containing 1Deep Cut85points
  • PhostensinDeep Cut85points
  • PhotopsinDeep Cut85points
  • Photoreceptor cellDeep Cut85points
  • Photoreceptor cell-specific nuclear receptorDeep Cut85points
  • Phyllodes tumorDeep Cut85points
  • PhylloquinolDeep Cut85points
  • Physeteric acidDeep Cut85points
  • Phytanic acidDeep Cut85points
  • Phytanoyl-CoA dioxygenaseDeep Cut85points
  • Phytic acidDeep Cut85points
  • PhytoceramideDeep Cut85points
  • PhytosphingosineDeep Cut85points
  • Phytosphingosine-1-PhosphateDeep Cut85points
  • PI-PLC X domain-containing protein 1Deep Cut85points
  • PI(3,5)P2Deep Cut85points
  • Pia materDeep Cut85points
  • Picolinic acidDeep Cut85points
  • Piercer of microtubule wall 1 proteinDeep Cut85points
  • PIF1 5'-to-3' DNA helicaseDeep Cut85points
  • PIGB opposite strand 1Deep Cut85points
  • PiggyBac transposable element derived 5Deep Cut85points
  • Pigmented spindle cell nevusDeep Cut85points
  • PikachurinDeep Cut85points
  • Pilar cystDeep Cut85points
  • Pilar sheath acanthomaDeep Cut85points
  • Pilocytic astrocytomaDeep Cut85points
  • PiloleiomyomaDeep Cut85points
  • PilomatrixomaDeep Cut85points
  • Pilonidal cystDeep Cut85points
  • Pimelic acidDeep Cut85points
  • Pineal cystDeep Cut85points
  • PinealoblastomaDeep Cut85points
  • PinealocyteDeep Cut85points
  • PinealomaDeep Cut85points
  • PineocytomaDeep Cut85points
  • PingueculaDeep Cut85points
  • PininDeep Cut85points
  • Pioneer neuronDeep 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

Names and scores reflect the linked dated reveal. The original game makes the final decision on live acceptance. Editorial policy