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
- Chimerin 2Deep Cut85points
- ChitinaseDeep Cut85points
- Chitinase domain-containing protein 1Deep Cut85points
- Chitinase-3-like protein 1Deep Cut85points
- chitobioseDeep Cut85points
- Chitobiosyldiphosphodolichol beta-mannosyltransferaseDeep Cut85points
- ChitotriosidaseDeep Cut85points
- Chlordecone reductaseDeep Cut85points
- Chloride anion exchangerDeep Cut85points
- Chloride channel protein ClC-KaDeep Cut85points
- Chloride channelsDeep Cut85points
- Chloride intracellular channel protein 1Deep Cut85points
- Chloride intracellular channel protein 3Deep Cut85points
- Chloride potassium symporter 4Deep Cut85points
- Chloride potassium symporter 5Deep Cut85points
- CholangiocarcinomaDeep Cut85points
- CholangiocyteDeep Cut85points
- CholecystocyteDeep Cut85points
- CholecystokininDeep Cut85points
- Cholecystokinin A receptorDeep Cut85points
- Cholecystokinin B receptorDeep Cut85points
- Cholecystokinin receptorDeep Cut85points
- CholesinDeep Cut85points
- cholest-5-ene-3beta,7alpha,24(S)-triolDeep Cut85points
- cholest-5-ene-3beta,7alpha,25-triolDeep Cut85points
- cholest-5-ene-3beta,7alpha,27-triolDeep Cut85points
- Cholestanetriol 26-monooxygenaseDeep Cut85points
- CholesteatomaDeep Cut85points
- Cholestenone 5alpha-reductaseDeep Cut85points
- Cholesterol 24-hydroxylaseDeep Cut85points
- Cholesterol 7 alpha-hydroxylaseDeep Cut85points
- Cholesterol side-chain cleavage enzymeDeep Cut85points
- Cholesterol sulfateDeep Cut85points
- Cholesterol-5,6-oxide hydrolaseDeep Cut85points
- Cholesteryl esterDeep Cut85points
- Cholesteryl ester transfer proteinDeep Cut85points
- Cholic acidDeep Cut85points
- Cholic acid 24-glucuronideDeep Cut85points
- Cholic acid 3-sulfateDeep Cut85points
- CholineDeep Cut85points
- Choline acetyltransferaseDeep Cut85points
- Choline dehydrogenaseDeep Cut85points
- Choline kinaseDeep Cut85points
- Choline transporterDeep Cut85points
- Choline transporter-like protein 1Deep Cut85points
- Choline transporter-like protein 2Deep Cut85points
- Choline transporter-like protein 4Deep Cut85points
- Choline-phosphate cytidylyltransferaseDeep Cut85points
- Choline-phosphate cytidylyltransferase ADeep Cut85points
- Choline-phosphate cytidylyltransferase BDeep 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.