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
- Aminoacyl-tRNA hydrolaseDeep Cut85points
- AminoacylaseDeep Cut85points
- Aminoacylase-1Deep Cut85points
- AminoacyltransferaseDeep Cut85points
- Aminoadipate-semialdehyde dehydrogenaseDeep Cut85points
- Aminobutyraldehyde dehydrogenaseDeep Cut85points
- Aminocarboxymuconate-semialdehyde decarboxylaseDeep Cut85points
- aminochrome-O-semiquinoneDeep Cut85points
- Aminolevulinic acidDeep Cut85points
- Aminolevulinic acid synthaseDeep Cut85points
- AminomethyltransferaseDeep Cut85points
- AminopeptidaseDeep Cut85points
- Aminopeptidase BDeep Cut85points
- Aminopeptidase ODeep Cut85points
- Ammonium biurate crystalsDeep Cut85points
- AmniocyteDeep Cut85points
- AmnionlessDeep Cut85points
- Amniotic epithelial stem cellDeep Cut85points
- Amniotic sacDeep Cut85points
- Amniotic stem cellDeep Cut85points
- AMP deaminase 1Deep Cut85points
- AMP deaminase 2Deep Cut85points
- AMP deaminase 3Deep Cut85points
- AMP-activated protein kinaseDeep Cut85points
- AMPA receptorDeep Cut85points
- AmphiphysinDeep Cut85points
- AmphiregulinDeep Cut85points
- AmylinDeep Cut85points
- AmyloidDeep Cut85points
- Amyloid betaDeep Cut85points
- Amyloid plaqueDeep Cut85points
- Amyloid precursor proteinDeep Cut85points
- AnandamideDeep Cut85points
- Anaphase-promoting complexDeep Cut85points
- AnaphylatoxinsDeep Cut85points
- Anaplastic astrocytomaDeep Cut85points
- Anaplastic carcinomaDeep Cut85points
- Anaplastic large-cell lymphomaDeep Cut85points
- Anaplastic lymphoma kinaseDeep Cut85points
- Anaplastic oligodendrogliomaDeep Cut85points
- Anaxonic neuronDeep Cut85points
- ANCADeep Cut85points
- Androgen receptorDeep Cut85points
- Androgen-dependent TFPI-regulating proteinDeep Cut85points
- AndrostadienolDeep Cut85points
- AndrostadienoneDeep Cut85points
- AndrostanedioneDeep Cut85points
- AndrostenediolDeep Cut85points
- AndrostenedioneDeep Cut85points
- AndrostenolDeep 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.