Name a substance the human body produces

November 2, 2026 · Daily Dive #110

Explore 12,312 recorded answers and their points for question 1 on November 2, 2026.

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12,312 recorded names on November 2, 2026, 12,047 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.

12,312 recorded answers12,047 at 85+ points100 highest recorded points
  • One in a Krillion1100 pts
  • Deep Cut12,04685 pts
  • Rare20960 pts
  • Schooler4930 pts
  • Plankton710 pts
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Recorded answers

12,312 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 12,312
  • (7Z)-octadecenoyl-CoADeep Cut85points
  • (7Z)-octadecenoylcarnitineDeep Cut85points
  • (7Z)-tetradecenoic acidDeep Cut85points
  • (7Z)-tetradecenoyl-CoADeep Cut85points
  • (8Z,11Z,14Z,17Z)-eicosatetraenoyl-CoADeep Cut85points
  • (8Z,11Z,14Z,17Z)-eicosatetraenoylcarnitineDeep Cut85points
  • (8Z,11Z)-eicosadienoyl-CoADeep Cut85points
  • (8Z,11Z)-eicosadienoylcarnitineDeep Cut85points
  • (9E)-octadecenoyl-CoADeep Cut85points
  • (9E)-octadecenoylcarnitineDeep Cut85points
  • (9E)-tetradecenoic acidDeep Cut85points
  • (9E)-tetradecenoyl-CoADeep Cut85points
  • (9Z,12Z,15Z,18Z,21Z)-tetracosapentaenoic acidDeep Cut85points
  • (9Z,12Z,15Z,18Z,21Z)-tetracosapentaenoyl-CoADeep Cut85points
  • (9Z,12Z,15Z,18Z,21Z)-tetracosapentaenoylcarnitineDeep Cut85points
  • (9Z,12Z,15Z,18Z)-tetracosatetraenoic acidDeep Cut85points
  • (9Z,12Z,15Z,18Z)-tetracosatetraenoyl-CoADeep Cut85points
  • (9Z,12Z,15Z,18Z)-tetracosatetraenoylcarnitineDeep Cut85points
  • (acyl-carrier-protein) S-acetyltransferaseDeep Cut85points
  • (acyl-carrier-protein) S-malonyltransferaseDeep Cut85points
  • (alpha-D-mannosyl)2-beta-D-mannosyl-N-acetylglucosamineDeep Cut85points
  • (E)-4-hydroxynon-2-enoateDeep Cut85points
  • (E)-hexadec-2-enoateDeep Cut85points
  • (heparan sulfate)-glucosamine 3-sulfotransferase 3Deep Cut85points
  • (heparan sulfate)-glucosamine N-sulfotransferaseDeep Cut85points
  • (Histone-H3)-lysine-36 demethylaseDeep Cut85points
  • (Methionine synthase) reductaseDeep Cut85points
  • (Myelin basic protein)-arginine N-methyltransferaseDeep Cut85points
  • (Phosphatase 2A protein)-leucine-carboxy methyltransferaseDeep Cut85points
  • (R)-2-hydroxyglutarateDeep Cut85points
  • (R)-3-amino-2-methylpropionate—pyruvate transaminaseDeep Cut85points
  • (R)-3-hydroxybutanoyl-CoADeep Cut85points
  • (R)-4-phosphopantothenoyl-cysteineDeep Cut85points
  • (R)-5-diphosphomevalonateDeep Cut85points
  • (R)-5-phosphomevalonateDeep Cut85points
  • (R)-methylmalonyl-CoADeep Cut85points
  • (R)-S-lactoylglutathioneDeep Cut85points
  • (RNA-polymerase)-subunit kinaseDeep Cut85points
  • (S)-2-aminobutanoateDeep Cut85points
  • (S)-2-hydroxyglutarateDeep Cut85points
  • (S)-3-hydroxy-11-cis-octadecenoyl-CoADeep Cut85points
  • (S)-3-hydroxy-2-methylbutyryl-CoADeep Cut85points
  • (S)-3-hydroxy-7-hexadecenoyl-CoADeep Cut85points
  • (S)-3-hydroxybutyryl-CoADeep Cut85points
  • (S)-3-hydroxydodecanoyl-CoADeep Cut85points
  • (S)-3-hydroxyhexadecanoyl-CoADeep Cut85points
  • (S)-3-hydroxyoctadecanoyl-CoADeep Cut85points
  • (S)-3-hydroxyoleyleoyl-CoADeep Cut85points
  • (S)-3-hydroxypalmitoleoyl-CoADeep Cut85points
  • (S)-3-hydroxytetradecanoyl-CoADeep 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, 08:10 UTC

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