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
- DNA polymerase etaDeep Cut85points
- DNA polymerase iotaDeep Cut85points
- DNA polymerase kappaDeep Cut85points
- DNA polymerase muDeep Cut85points
- DNA polymerase nuDeep Cut85points
- DNA polymerase subunit gamma-1Deep Cut85points
- DNA polymerase zeta catalytic subunitDeep Cut85points
- DNA primase small subunitDeep Cut85points
- DNA repair endonuclease XPFDeep Cut85points
- DNA repair protein RAD50Deep Cut85points
- DNA repair protein XRCC4Deep Cut85points
- DNA repair-scaffolding proteinDeep Cut85points
- DNA replication ATP-dependent helicase/nuclease DNA2Deep Cut85points
- DNA replication factor CDT1Deep Cut85points
- DNA replication licensing factor MCM3Deep Cut85points
- DNA replication licensing factor MCM4Deep Cut85points
- DNA replication licensing factor MCM5Deep Cut85points
- DNA replication licensing factor MCM6Deep Cut85points
- DNA replication licensing factor MCM7Deep Cut85points
- DNA topoisomerase 1Deep Cut85points
- DNA topoisomerase 2-alphaDeep Cut85points
- DNA topoisomerase 2-betaDeep Cut85points
- DNA topoisomerase 3-alphaDeep Cut85points
- DNA topoisomerase 3-beta-1Deep Cut85points
- DNA-3-methyladenine glycosylaseDeep Cut85points
- DNA-binding protein SMUBP-2Deep Cut85points
- DNA-dependent ATPase/E3 ubiquitin-protein ligase HLTFDeep Cut85points
- DNA-directed RNA polymerase I subunit RPA1Deep Cut85points
- DNA-directed RNA polymerase I subunit RPA2Deep Cut85points
- DNA-directed RNA polymerase II subunit RPB1Deep Cut85points
- DNA-directed RNA polymerase II subunit RPB2Deep Cut85points
- DNA-directed RNA polymerase III subunit RPC1Deep Cut85points
- DNA-directed RNA polymerase III subunit RPC2Deep Cut85points
- DNA-directed RNA polymerase, mitochondrialDeep Cut85points
- DNA-PKcsDeep Cut85points
- DNA/RNA-binding protein KIN17Deep Cut85points
- Docking protein 6Deep Cut85points
- Docosadienoic acidDeep Cut85points
- Docosahexaenoic acidDeep Cut85points
- docosahexaenoylcarnitineDeep Cut85points
- Docosanedioic acidDeep Cut85points
- docosanoyl-CoADeep Cut85points
- docosanoylcarnitineDeep Cut85points
- Docosapentaenoic acidDeep Cut85points
- docosatetraenoylcarnitineDeep Cut85points
- DocosatetraenoylethanolamideDeep Cut85points
- docosenoylcarnitineDeep Cut85points
- docosenoylcarnitine(11)Deep Cut85points
- DodecanalDeep Cut85points
- Dodecanedioic acidDeep 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.