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
  • (S)-3-sulfolactateDeep Cut85points
  • (S)-dihydroorotateDeep Cut85points
  • (S)-GlycerateDeep Cut85points
  • (S)-hydroxydecanoyl-CoADeep Cut85points
  • (S)-hydroxyhexanoyl-CoADeep Cut85points
  • (S)-hydroxyoctanoyl-CoADeep Cut85points
  • (Z,Z,Z)-7,10,13-hexadecatrienoic acidDeep Cut85points
  • [F-actin]-monooxygenase MICAL1Deep Cut85points
  • [F-actin]-monooxygenase MICAL2Deep Cut85points
  • [F-actin]-monooxygenase MICAL3Deep Cut85points
  • 1-(1-alkenyl)-sn-glycero-3-phosphateDeep Cut85points
  • 1-(1-alkenyl)-sn-glycero-3-phosphoethanolamineDeep Cut85points
  • 1-(1-alkenyl)-sn-glycerolDeep Cut85points
  • 1-(1,2,3,4,5-pentahydroxypent-1-yl)-1,2,3,4-tetrahydro-beta-carboline-3-carboxylateDeep Cut85points
  • 1-acyl-sn-glycerol-3-phosphate acyltransferase alphaDeep Cut85points
  • 1-acyl-sn-glycerol-3-phosphate acyltransferase betaDeep Cut85points
  • 1-acyl-sn-glycerol-3-phosphate acyltransferase epsilonDeep Cut85points
  • 1-acyl-sn-glycerol-3-phosphate acyltransferase gammaDeep Cut85points
  • 1-acylglycerol-3-phosphate O-acyltransferase ABHD5Deep Cut85points
  • 1-acylglycerol-3-phosphate O-acyltransferase PNPLA3Deep Cut85points
  • 1-alkenyl-2-acylglycerolDeep Cut85points
  • 1-alkenyl-2-acylglycerol choline phosphotransferaseDeep Cut85points
  • 1-alkenylglycerophosphoethanolamine O-acyltransferaseDeep Cut85points
  • 1-alkyl-2-acetyl-sn-glycerolDeep Cut85points
  • 1-Alkyl-2-acetyl-sn-glycerol 3-phosphateDeep Cut85points
  • 1-alkyl-2-acylglycerolDeep Cut85points
  • 1-alkyl-2-acylglycerophosphoethanolamineDeep Cut85points
  • 1-alkyl-2-lysoglycerol-3-phosphocholineDeep Cut85points
  • 1-Alkyl-sn-glycerol 3-phosphateDeep Cut85points
  • 1-alkylglycerophosphocholine O-acyltransferaseDeep Cut85points
  • 1-alpha,24R,25-trihydroxyvitamin D2Deep Cut85points
  • 1-alpha,25-dihydroxyvitamin D2Deep Cut85points
  • 1-deoxy-1-(N6-lysino)-D-fructoseDeep Cut85points
  • 1-hexadecylglycerol-3-phosphateDeep Cut85points
  • 1-hydroperoxy-8-carboxyoctyl-3,4-epoxynon-(2E)-enyl-etherDeep Cut85points
  • 1-lyso-2-arachidonoyl-phosphatidateDeep Cut85points
  • 1-MethyladenosineDeep Cut85points
  • 1-MethylhistamineDeep Cut85points
  • 1-MethylhistidineDeep Cut85points
  • 1-MethylnicotinamideDeep Cut85points
  • 1-methylpyrroliniumDeep Cut85points
  • 1-NaphtholDeep Cut85points
  • 1-NaphthylamineDeep Cut85points
  • 1-palmitoyl-dihydroxyacetone-phosphateDeep Cut85points
  • 1-phosphatidyl-1D-myo-inositol-3-phosphateDeep Cut85points
  • 1-phosphatidyl-1D-myo-inositol-3,4-bisphosphateDeep Cut85points
  • 1-phosphatidylinositol 4-kinaseDeep Cut85points
  • 1-phosphatidylinositol 4,5-bisphosphate phosphodiesterase beta-1Deep Cut85points
  • 1-phosphatidylinositol 4,5-bisphosphate phosphodiesterase beta-2Deep Cut85points
  • 1-phosphatidylinositol 4,5-bisphosphate phosphodiesterase beta-3Deep 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

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