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
- 4-OH-9-cis-retinalDeep Cut85points
- 4-OH-retinalDeep Cut85points
- 4-oxo-13-cis-retinoateDeep Cut85points
- 4-Oxo-2-nonenalDeep Cut85points
- 4-oxo-9-cis-retinalDeep Cut85points
- 4-oxo-9-cis-retinoateDeep Cut85points
- 4-oxo-9-cis-retinoyl-beta-glucuronideDeep Cut85points
- 4-oxo-all-trans-retinoateDeep Cut85points
- 4-oxoproline reductaseDeep Cut85points
- 4-oxoretinolDeep Cut85points
- 4-Pyridoxic acidDeep Cut85points
- 4-trimethylammoniobutanalDeep Cut85points
- 4,4-dimethyl-14alpha-formyl-5alpha-cholesta-8-en-3beta-olDeep Cut85points
- 4,4-dimethyl-14alpha-formyl-5alpha-cholesta-8,24-dien-3beta-olDeep Cut85points
- 4,4-dimethyl-14alpha-hydroxymethyl-5alpha-cholesta-8-en-3beta-olDeep Cut85points
- 4,4-dimethyl-14alpha-hydroxymethyl-5alpha-cholesta-8,24-dien-3beta-olDeep Cut85points
- 4,4-dimethyl-5alpha-cholesta-8-en-3-beta-olDeep Cut85points
- 4,4-dimethyl-5alpha-cholesta-8,14-dien-3beta-olDeep Cut85points
- 4,4-dimethyl-5alpha-cholesta-8,14,24-trien-3beta-olDeep Cut85points
- 4,6-dideoxy-4-oxo-dTDP-D-glucoseDeep Cut85points
- 4,6-dihydroxyquinolineDeep Cut85points
- 4,6,7-trihydroxy-1,2,3,4-tetrahydroisoquinolineDeep Cut85points
- 4,7-decadienoyl-CoADeep Cut85points
- 4,7,10-hexadecatrienoyl-CoADeep Cut85points
- 4,7,10,13-hexadecatetraenoyl-CoADeep Cut85points
- 4,8-dihydroxyquinolineDeep Cut85points
- 4,8-dimethylnonanoyl-CoADeep Cut85points
- 4,8-dimethylnonanoylcarnitineDeep Cut85points
- 4,8,12-trimethyltridecanoyl-CoADeep Cut85points
- 4(R)-hydroxy-dodec-(6Z)-enoateDeep Cut85points
- 4(R),8-dimethyl-trans-2-nonenoyl-CoADeep Cut85points
- 4(S)-hydroxy-dodec-(6Z)-enoateDeep Cut85points
- 40S ribosomal protein S10Deep Cut85points
- 40S ribosomal protein S11Deep Cut85points
- 40S ribosomal protein S12Deep Cut85points
- 40S ribosomal protein S13Deep Cut85points
- 40S ribosomal protein S14Deep Cut85points
- 40S ribosomal protein S15Deep Cut85points
- 40S ribosomal protein S15aDeep Cut85points
- 40S ribosomal protein S16Deep Cut85points
- 40S ribosomal protein S17Deep Cut85points
- 40S ribosomal protein S18Deep Cut85points
- 40S ribosomal protein S19Deep Cut85points
- 40S ribosomal protein S2Deep Cut85points
- 40S ribosomal protein S20Deep Cut85points
- 40S ribosomal protein S21Deep Cut85points
- 40S ribosomal protein S23Deep Cut85points
- 40S ribosomal protein S24Deep Cut85points
- 40S ribosomal protein S25Deep Cut85points
- 40S ribosomal protein S26Deep 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.