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
- Cystatin-9Deep Cut85points
- Cystatin-9-likeDeep Cut85points
- Cystatin-DDeep Cut85points
- Cystatin-like 1Deep Cut85points
- Cystatin-MDeep Cut85points
- Cystatin-SADeep Cut85points
- CysteamineDeep Cut85points
- Cysteamine dioxygenaseDeep Cut85points
- Cysteic acidDeep Cut85points
- CysteineDeep Cut85points
- Cysteine desulfuraseDeep Cut85points
- Cysteine dioxygenase type 1Deep Cut85points
- Cysteine protease ATG4ADeep Cut85points
- Cysteine rich protein 3Deep Cut85points
- Cysteine sulfinic acidDeep Cut85points
- Cysteine-rich motor neuron 1 proteinDeep Cut85points
- Cysteine-rich secretory protein 2Deep Cut85points
- Cysteine-rich secretory protein 3Deep Cut85points
- Cysteine-rich secretory protein LCCL domain-containing 1Deep Cut85points
- Cysteine-S-conjugate beta-lyaseDeep Cut85points
- Cysteine-S-conjugate N-acetyltransferaseDeep Cut85points
- Cysteine–tRNA ligaseDeep Cut85points
- Cysteine–tRNA ligase, cytoplasmicDeep Cut85points
- Cysteinyl leukotriene receptorDeep Cut85points
- Cysteinyl leukotriene receptor 1Deep Cut85points
- Cysteinyl leukotriene receptor 2Deep Cut85points
- CysteinylglycineDeep Cut85points
- Cystic fibrosis transmembrane conductance regulatorDeep Cut85points
- Cystic nephromaDeep Cut85points
- Cystic tumour of the atrioventricular nodal regionDeep Cut85points
- Cystin-1Deep Cut85points
- CystineDeep Cut85points
- Cystine stoneDeep Cut85points
- Cystine/glutamate transporterDeep Cut85points
- CytidineDeep Cut85points
- Cytidine deaminaseDeep Cut85points
- Cytidine diphosphateDeep Cut85points
- Cytidine monophosphateDeep Cut85points
- Cytidine triphosphateDeep Cut85points
- Cytochrome bDeep Cut85points
- Cytochrome b-c1 complex subunit Rieske, mitochondrialDeep Cut85points
- Cytochrome b5Deep Cut85points
- Cytochrome b5 reductaseDeep Cut85points
- Cytochrome b5 reductase 4Deep Cut85points
- Cytochrome b561Deep Cut85points
- Cytochrome cDeep Cut85points
- Cytochrome c oxidaseDeep Cut85points
- Cytochrome c oxidase subunit 2Deep Cut85points
- Cytochrome c oxidase subunit IDeep Cut85points
- Cytochrome c oxidase subunit IIIDeep 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.