Name a substance the human body produces

November 2, 2026 · Daily Dive #110

Explore 12,236 recorded answers and their points for question 1 on November 2, 2026.

Current edition7 questions · 122,407 recorded answersNext edition

12,236 recorded names on November 2, 2026, 11,974 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.

12,236 recorded answers11,974 at 85+ points100 highest recorded points
  • One in a Krillion1100 pts
  • Deep Cut11,97385 pts
  • Rare20660 pts
  • Schooler4930 pts
  • Plankton710 pts
01

Recorded answers

12,236 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 12,236
  • (2E)-tetradecenoyl-CoADeep Cut85points
  • (2E)-tricosenoyl-CoADeep Cut85points
  • (2E)-tridecenoyl-CoADeep Cut85points
  • (2E)-undecenoyl-CoADeep Cut85points
  • (2R,6R,10R)-trimethyl-hendecanoyl-CoADeep Cut85points
  • (2R)-pristanalDeep Cut85points
  • (2R)-pristanoyl-CoADeep Cut85points
  • (2S,3R)-3-Hydroxybutane-1,2,3-tricarboxylateDeep Cut85points
  • (2S,6R,10R)-trimethyl-(2E)-hendecenoyl-CoADeep Cut85points
  • (2S,6R,10R)-trimethyl-hendecanoyl-CoADeep Cut85points
  • (2S)-pristanoyl-CoADeep Cut85points
  • (3-methyl-2-oxobutanoate dehydrogenase (2-methylpropanoyl-transferring))-phosphataseDeep Cut85points
  • (3E,5Z,8Z)-tetradecatrienoyl-CoADeep Cut85points
  • (3R)-2-hydroxyphytanoyl-CoADeep Cut85points
  • (3S)-3-hydroxy-cis-8-tetradecenoyl-CoADeep Cut85points
  • (3S)-3-hydroxy-cis,cis-palmito-7,10-dienoyl-CoADeep Cut85points
  • (3S)-3-hydroxydodec-cis-6-enoyl-CoADeep Cut85points
  • (3S)-3-hydroxylinoleoyl-CoADeep Cut85points
  • (3S)-citramalyl-CoADeep Cut85points
  • (3S)-hydroxy-docosa-cis,cis-13,16-dienoyl-CoADeep Cut85points
  • (3S)-hydroxy-eicosa-cis,cis-11,14-dienoyl-CoADeep Cut85points
  • (3S)-hydroxy-eicosa-cis,cis,cis-11,14,17-trienoyl-CoADeep Cut85points
  • (3Z,7Z,10Z)-hexadecatrienoyl-CoADeep Cut85points
  • (3Z)-dodecenoyl-CoADeep Cut85points
  • (4R,8R,12R)-trimethyl-(2E)-tridecenoyl-CoADeep Cut85points
  • (4Z,7Z,10Z,13Z,16Z,19Z)-docosahexaenoyl-CoADeep Cut85points
  • (4Z,7Z,10Z,13Z,16Z)-docosapentaenoyl-CoADeep Cut85points
  • (4Z,7Z,10Z,13Z,16Z)-docosapentaenoylcarnitineDeep Cut85points
  • (4Z,7Z,10Z)-hexadecatrienoyl-CoADeep Cut85points
  • (5S,6S)-epoxy-(15R)-hydroxy-ETEDeep Cut85points
  • (5Z,8Z,11Z,14Z,17Z)-eicosapentaenoyl-CoADeep Cut85points
  • (5Z,8Z,11Z,14Z,17Z)-eicosapentaenoylcarnitineDeep Cut85points
  • (5Z,8Z,11Z,14Z)-eicosatetraenedioateDeep Cut85points
  • (5Z,8Z,11Z)-eicosatrienoyl-CoADeep Cut85points
  • (5Z,8Z,11Z)-eicosatrienoylcarnitineDeep Cut85points
  • (5Z,8Z)-tetradecadienoyl-CoADeep Cut85points
  • (5Z)-dodecenoyl-CoADeep Cut85points
  • (6Z,9Z,12Z,15Z,18Z,21Z)-tetracosahexaenoyl-CoADeep Cut85points
  • (6Z,9Z,12Z,15Z,18Z,21Z)-tetracosahexaenoylcarnitineDeep Cut85points
  • (6Z,9Z,12Z,15Z,18Z)-tetracosapentaenoic acidDeep Cut85points
  • (6Z,9Z,12Z,15Z,18Z)-tetracosapentaenoyl-CoADeep Cut85points
  • (6Z,9Z,12Z,15Z,18Z)-tetracosapentaenoylcarnitineDeep Cut85points
  • (6Z,9Z,12Z,15Z)-octadecatetraenoyl-CoADeep Cut85points
  • (6Z,9Z,12Z,15Z)-octadecatetraenoylcarnitineDeep Cut85points
  • (6Z,9Z)-octadecadienoyl-CoADeep Cut85points
  • (6Z,9Z)-octadecadienoylcarnitineDeep Cut85points
  • (7Z,10Z,13Z,16Z,19Z)-docosapentaenoyl-CoADeep Cut85points
  • (7Z,10Z,13Z,16Z,19Z)-docosapentaenoylcarnitineDeep Cut85points
  • (7Z,10Z,13Z,16Z)-docosatetraenoyl-CoADeep Cut85points
  • (7Z)-octadecenoic acidDeep 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, 06:05 UTC

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