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
- WD repeat-containing protein 77Deep Cut85points
- Wee1-like protein kinaseDeep Cut85points
- Werner syndrome helicaseDeep Cut85points
- Wharton's jellyDeep Cut85points
- Whey proteinDeep Cut85points
- WhirlinDeep Cut85points
- White fat cellDeep Cut85points
- White matterDeep Cut85points
- White pulpDeep Cut85points
- Wide dynamic range neuronDeep Cut85points
- Wilms tumor proteinDeep Cut85points
- Wilson disease proteinDeep Cut85points
- Winged helix repair factor 1Deep Cut85points
- Wings apart-like protein homologDeep Cut85points
- Wiskott–Aldrich syndrome proteinDeep Cut85points
- Witch's milkDeep Cut85points
- Wnt inhibitory factor 1Deep Cut85points
- Wnt proteinsDeep Cut85points
- Woolly hair nevusDeep Cut85points
- Woven boneDeep Cut85points
- WW domain binding protein 1-likeDeep Cut85points
- X-Arg dipeptidaseDeep Cut85points
- X-C motif chemokine ligand 2Deep Cut85points
- X-His dipeptidaseDeep Cut85points
- X-linked interleukin-1 receptor accessory protein-like 2Deep Cut85points
- Xaa-Pro aminopeptidaseDeep Cut85points
- Xaa-Pro aminopeptidase 1Deep Cut85points
- Xaa-Pro aminopeptidase 2Deep Cut85points
- Xaa-Pro aminopeptidase 3Deep Cut85points
- XanthineDeep Cut85points
- Xanthine oxidaseDeep Cut85points
- Xanthine stoneDeep Cut85points
- XanthomaDeep Cut85points
- XanthosineDeep Cut85points
- Xanthosine monophosphateDeep Cut85points
- Xanthosine triphosphateDeep Cut85points
- xanthurenate-8-O-beta-D-glucosideDeep Cut85points
- Xanthurenic acidDeep Cut85points
- XeninDeep Cut85points
- Xenobiotic-transporting ATPaseDeep Cut85points
- Xenotropic and polytropic retrovirus receptor 1Deep Cut85points
- Xg antigenDeep Cut85points
- Ximenic acidDeep Cut85points
- XISTDeep Cut85points
- XK related 9Deep Cut85points
- XylitolDeep Cut85points
- XyloseDeep Cut85points
- Xylosyltransferase 1Deep Cut85points
- Xylosyltransferase 2Deep Cut85points
- XylulokinaseDeep 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.