Name a substance the human body produces

November 2, 2026 · Daily Dive #110

Explore 12,456 recorded answers and their points for question 1 on November 2, 2026.

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12,456 recorded names on November 2, 2026, 12,189 at 85 or higher. The highest recorded score on this question is 100.

The body is a chemical workshop rather than a set of familiar fluids, so the best guesses come from its processes: energy use, signalling, defence, repair and waste removal all leave named compounds behind. Molecules the body assembles itself count, from a tiny metabolic acid to a large enzyme complex; anything absorbed ready-made from outside, given as a medicine, or manufactured only by resident microbes does not.

12,456 recorded answers12,189 at 85+ points100 highest recorded points
  • One in a Krillion1100 pts
  • Deep Cut12,18885 pts
  • Rare21060 pts
  • Schooler5030 pts
  • Plankton710 pts
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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
  • 17beta-estradiol-2,3-quinoneDeep Cut85points
  • 17beta-estradiol-2,3-semiquinoneDeep Cut85points
  • 17beta-estradiol-3,4-quinoneDeep Cut85points
  • 17beta-estradiol-3,4-semiquinoneDeep Cut85points
  • 17α-HydroxypregnenoloneDeep Cut85points
  • 17α-HydroxyprogesteroneDeep Cut85points
  • 17β-Hydroxysteroid dehydrogenaseDeep Cut85points
  • 18-CoA-18-oxo-dinor-LTB4Deep Cut85points
  • 18-COOH-(15E)-dinor-LTE4-CoADeep Cut85points
  • 18-COOH-(16E)-dinor-LTE5-CoADeep Cut85points
  • 18-COOH-LTB4Deep Cut85points
  • 18-COOH-LTE4Deep Cut85points
  • 18-HEPEDeep Cut85points
  • 18-HETEDeep Cut85points
  • 18-Hydroxy-11-deoxycorticosteroneDeep Cut85points
  • 18-hydroxy-all-trans-retinoateDeep Cut85points
  • 18-HydroxycorticosteroneDeep Cut85points
  • 18-HydroxycortisolDeep Cut85points
  • 18-OxocortisolDeep Cut85points
  • 18,20-dioxo-20-CoA-LTB4Deep Cut85points
  • 18(R)-hydroxy-20-oxo-20-CoA-LTE4Deep Cut85points
  • 18S rRNA (adenine1779-N6/adenine1780-N6)-dimethyltransferaseDeep Cut85points
  • 18S rRNA aminocarboxypropyltransferaseDeep Cut85points
  • 19-hydroxy-(5Z,8Z,11Z,14Z,17Z)-eicosapentaenoateDeep Cut85points
  • 19-hydroxy-(5Z,8Z,11Z)-eicosatrienoateDeep Cut85points
  • 19-hydroxyandrostenedioneDeep Cut85points
  • 19-Hydroxyeicosatetraenoic acidDeep Cut85points
  • 19-hydroxytestosteroneDeep Cut85points
  • 19-oxo-testosteroneDeep Cut85points
  • 19-oxoandrostenedioneDeep Cut85points
  • 1D-myo-inositol-1,3,4-trisphosphateDeep Cut85points
  • 1D-myo-inositol-1,3,4,5-tetrakisphosphateDeep Cut85points
  • 1D-myo-inositol-1,3,4,6-tetrakisphosphateDeep Cut85points
  • 1D-myo-inositol-1,4-bisphosphateDeep Cut85points
  • 1D-myo-inositol-1,4,5,6-tetrakisphosphateDeep Cut85points
  • 1D-myo-inositol-3-phosphateDeep Cut85points
  • 1D-myo-inositol-3,4-bisphosphateDeep Cut85points
  • 1D-myo-inositol-3,4,5,6-tetrakisphosphateDeep Cut85points
  • 1D-myo-inositol-4-phosphateDeep Cut85points
  • 1D-myo-inositol-bisdiphosphate-tetrakisphosphateDeep Cut85points
  • 2-(1-hydroxypropyl)thiamine diphosphateDeep Cut85points
  • 2-(2-methyl-1-hydroxybutyl)thiamine diphosphateDeep Cut85points
  • 2-(2-methyl-1-hydroxypropyl)thiamine diphosphateDeep Cut85points
  • 2-(3-methyl-1-hydroxybutyl)thiamine diphosphateDeep Cut85points
  • 2-(4-carboxy-1-hydroxybutyl)thiamine diphosphateDeep Cut85points
  • 2-(alpha-hydroxyethyl)thiamine-diphosphateDeep Cut85points
  • 2-acyl-1-(1-alkenyl)-sn-glycero-3-phosphateDeep Cut85points
  • 2-acyl-1-alkyl-sn-glycero-3-phosphateDeep Cut85points
  • 2-acylglycerol O-acyltransferaseDeep Cut85points
  • 2-acylglycerol O-acyltransferase 2Deep 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.

Recorded from the game’s published reveal · Source · Checked 2 Nov, 14:30 UTC

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