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.