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
- ProtamineDeep Cut85points
- ProteaseDeep Cut85points
- Protease-activated receptorDeep Cut85points
- Protease-activated receptor 2Deep Cut85points
- ProteasomeDeep Cut85points
- Proteasome adapter and scaffold protein ECM29Deep Cut85points
- Proteasome subunit alpha type-1Deep Cut85points
- Proteasome subunit beta type-10Deep Cut85points
- Proteasome subunit beta type-5Deep Cut85points
- Proteasome subunit beta type-6Deep Cut85points
- Proteasome subunit beta type-7Deep Cut85points
- Proteasome subunit beta type-8Deep Cut85points
- Proteasome subunit beta type-9Deep Cut85points
- ProtectinsDeep Cut85points
- Protein 4.1Deep Cut85points
- Protein AATFDeep Cut85points
- Protein adenylyltransferase FICDDeep Cut85points
- Protein arginine methyltransferase 5Deep Cut85points
- Protein arginine methyltransferase NDUFAF7, mitochondrialDeep Cut85points
- Protein arginine N-methyltransferase 1Deep Cut85points
- Protein arginine N-methyltransferase 2Deep Cut85points
- Protein arginine N-methyltransferase 3Deep Cut85points
- Protein arginine N-methyltransferase 6Deep Cut85points
- Protein arginine N-methyltransferase 7Deep Cut85points
- Protein arginine N-methyltransferase 8Deep Cut85points
- Protein asunder homologDeep Cut85points
- Protein BEX1Deep Cut85points
- Protein BEX2Deep Cut85points
- Protein BTG2Deep Cut85points
- Protein BTG3Deep Cut85points
- Protein BTG4Deep Cut85points
- Protein CDeep Cut85points
- Protein C inhibitorDeep Cut85points
- Protein c-FosDeep Cut85points
- Protein canopy homolog 4Deep Cut85points
- Protein chibby homolog 1Deep Cut85points
- Protein complexDeep Cut85points
- Protein crumbs homolog 1Deep Cut85points
- Protein crumbs homolog 2Deep Cut85points
- Protein delta homolog 1Deep Cut85points
- Protein disulfide isomerase CRELD1Deep Cut85points
- Protein disulfide isomerase CRELD2Deep Cut85points
- Protein disulfide-isomeraseDeep Cut85points
- Protein disulfide-isomerase A2Deep Cut85points
- Protein disulfide-isomerase A3Deep Cut85points
- Protein disulfide-isomerase TMX3Deep Cut85points
- Protein ecdysoneless homologDeep Cut85points
- Protein eyes shut homologDeep Cut85points
- Protein FAM25Deep Cut85points
- Protein farnesyltransferase subunit betaDeep 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.