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
- Azelaic acidDeep Cut85points
- AzurocidinDeep Cut85points
- B cell scaffold protein with ankyrin repeats 1Deep Cut85points
- B melanoma antigen 1Deep Cut85points
- B melanoma antigen 2Deep Cut85points
- B melanoma antigen 3Deep Cut85points
- B melanoma antigen 4Deep Cut85points
- B melanoma antigen 5Deep Cut85points
- B-1 cellDeep Cut85points
- B-cell activating factorDeep Cut85points
- B-cell linkerDeep Cut85points
- B-cell lymphomaDeep Cut85points
- B-cell maturation antigenDeep Cut85points
- B-cell receptorDeep Cut85points
- B-N-acetylglucosaminyl-glycopeptide b-1,4-galactosyltransferaseDeep Cut85points
- B(0,+)-type amino acid transporter 1Deep Cut85points
- B10 cellDeep Cut85points
- Bactericidal/permeability-increasing proteinDeep Cut85points
- BacteriocinsDeep Cut85points
- Baculoviral IAP repeat-containing protein 2Deep Cut85points
- Baculoviral IAP repeat-containing protein 3Deep Cut85points
- Baculoviral IAP repeat-containing protein 7Deep Cut85points
- BAFF receptorDeep Cut85points
- BAIBADeep Cut85points
- Baker's cystDeep Cut85points
- Balloon cell nevusDeep Cut85points
- BAM-22PDeep Cut85points
- Band 3Deep Cut85points
- Band 4.1-like protein 3Deep Cut85points
- Band cellDeep Cut85points
- BaroreceptorDeep Cut85points
- Barrier to autointegration factor 1Deep Cut85points
- Bartholin's cystDeep Cut85points
- Bartholin's gland carcinomaDeep Cut85points
- Bartholin's gland cellDeep Cut85points
- BarttinDeep Cut85points
- BARX homeobox 1Deep Cut85points
- Basal cell adenomaDeep Cut85points
- Basal cell adhesion moleculeDeep Cut85points
- Basal cell of olfactory epitheliumDeep Cut85points
- Basal epithelial cellDeep Cut85points
- Basal retinal neuronDeep Cut85points
- Basal-cell carcinoma of the skinDeep Cut85points
- Basal-like carcinomaDeep Cut85points
- Basaloid follicular hamartomaDeep Cut85points
- Basaloid large cell carcinoma of the lungDeep Cut85points
- Basaloid squamous cell lung carcinomaDeep Cut85points
- Basement membraneDeep Cut85points
- Basic helix-loop-helix ARNT-like protein 1Deep Cut85points
- Basic leucine zipper and W2 domain-containing protein 2Deep 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.