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
- Dipeptidyl peptidase 8Deep Cut85points
- Dipeptidyl peptidase 9Deep Cut85points
- Dipeptidyl peptidase-4Deep Cut85points
- Diphosphoinositol polyphosphate phosphohydrolase 2Deep Cut85points
- Diphosphoinositol-pentakisphosphate kinaseDeep Cut85points
- Diphosphoinositol-polyphosphate diphosphataseDeep Cut85points
- Diphosphomevalonate decarboxylaseDeep Cut85points
- DiphosphotransferaseDeep Cut85points
- Diphthine methyl ester synthaseDeep Cut85points
- Diphthine—ammonia ligaseDeep Cut85points
- DIS3-like exonuclease 1Deep Cut85points
- DisaccharidaseDeep Cut85points
- Disco interacting protein 2 homolog CDeep Cut85points
- Disco-interacting protein 2 homolog ADeep Cut85points
- Discoidin domain-containing receptor 2Deep Cut85points
- DishevelledDeep Cut85points
- Dishevelled binding antagonist of beta catenin 1Deep Cut85points
- Dishevelled binding antagonist of beta catenin 2Deep Cut85points
- disialyl-T antigenDeep Cut85points
- disialylgalactosylglobosideDeep Cut85points
- Disialyllacto-N-tetraoseDeep Cut85points
- Disintegrin and metalloproteinase domain-containing protein 10Deep Cut85points
- Disintegrin and metalloproteinase domain-containing protein 17Deep Cut85points
- Dispatched RND transporter family member 3Deep Cut85points
- dITPDeep Cut85points
- Ditrans,polycis-polyprenyl diphosphate synthase ((2E,6E)-farnesyl diphosphate specific)Deep Cut85points
- Divergent protein kinase domain 2ADeep Cut85points
- Divergent protein kinase domain 2BDeep Cut85points
- DNA (cytosine-5)-methyltransferase 3ADeep Cut85points
- DNA adenine methylaseDeep Cut85points
- DNA cross-link repair 1A proteinDeep Cut85points
- DNA damage-inducible transcript 3Deep Cut85points
- DNA dC-dU-editing enzyme APOBEC-3ADeep Cut85points
- DNA dC-dU-editing enzyme APOBEC-3CDeep Cut85points
- DNA dC-dU-editing enzyme APOBEC-3FDeep Cut85points
- DNA dC-dU-editing enzyme APOBEC-3HDeep Cut85points
- DNA glycosylaseDeep Cut85points
- DNA helicase MCM8Deep Cut85points
- DNA helicase MCM9Deep Cut85points
- DNA ligase 1Deep Cut85points
- DNA ligase 3Deep Cut85points
- DNA ligase 4Deep Cut85points
- DNA meiotic recombinase 1Deep Cut85points
- DNA methyltransferaseDeep Cut85points
- DNA oxidative demethylaseDeep Cut85points
- DNA polymeraseDeep Cut85points
- DNA polymerase alpha catalytic subunitDeep Cut85points
- DNA polymerase alpha subunit 2Deep Cut85points
- DNA polymerase delta catalytic subunitDeep Cut85points
- DNA polymerase epsilon catalytic subunit ADeep 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.