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
- Dehydro-L-gulonate decarboxylaseDeep Cut85points
- DehydroalanineDeep Cut85points
- Dehydroascorbic acidDeep Cut85points
- DehydrodolicholDeep Cut85points
- Dehydrodolichol diphosphateDeep Cut85points
- Dehydrodolichol phosphateDeep Cut85points
- Dehydrodolichyl diphosphate synthaseDeep Cut85points
- Dehydrodolichyl diphosphate synthase complex subunit NUS1Deep Cut85points
- DehydroepiandrosteroneDeep Cut85points
- DehydrogenaseDeep Cut85points
- Dehydrogenase/reductase SDR family member 4Deep Cut85points
- Dehydrogenase/reductase SDR family member 9Deep Cut85points
- DehydrospermidineDeep Cut85points
- DeiodinaseDeep Cut85points
- Deiters' cellDeep Cut85points
- Deleted in lung and esophageal cancer 1Deep Cut85points
- Delta cellDeep Cut85points
- Delta sleep-inducing peptideDeep Cut85points
- Delta-12-prostaglandin J2Deep Cut85points
- Delta-aminolevulinic acid dehydrataseDeep Cut85points
- Delta-like 1Deep Cut85points
- Delta-sarcoglycanDeep Cut85points
- delta1-piperideine-2-carboxylateDeep Cut85points
- Delta14-sterol reductaseDeep Cut85points
- delta2-THA-CoADeep Cut85points
- DeltaFosBDeep Cut85points
- Deltex E3 ubiquitin ligase 3Deep Cut85points
- Deltex E3 ubiquitin ligase 4Deep Cut85points
- DematinDeep Cut85points
- Dendritic cellDeep Cut85points
- Dendrocyte expressed seven transmembrane proteinDeep Cut85points
- DENN domain-containing protein 2BDeep Cut85points
- Dense connective tissueDeep Cut85points
- Dental laminaDeep Cut85points
- Dental pulp stem cellDeep Cut85points
- Dentate granule cellDeep Cut85points
- Dentigerous cystDeep Cut85points
- Dentin matrix acidic phosphoprotein 1Deep Cut85points
- Dentin sialophosphoproteinDeep Cut85points
- Dentinal fluidDeep Cut85points
- DeoxyadenosineDeep Cut85points
- Deoxyadenosine diphosphateDeep Cut85points
- Deoxyadenosine monophosphateDeep Cut85points
- Deoxyadenosine triphosphateDeep Cut85points
- Deoxycholic acidDeep Cut85points
- Deoxycholic acid 24-glucuronideDeep Cut85points
- Deoxycholic acid 3-glucuronideDeep Cut85points
- Deoxycholic acid 3-sulfateDeep Cut85points
- deoxycholoyl-CoADeep Cut85points
- DeoxycytidineDeep 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.