Krillion Recorded answers
6,671 recorded answers
How to approach it
Work the problem from mechanism outward rather than from memory. Anything that injects venom through a purpose-built structure belongs on the list: a puncturing tail, a modified egg-laying organ, a harpoon-like tooth, a fired cell, a barbed spine. Then sweep habitats systematically, through soil and leaf litter, nests and burrows, reefs and tide pools, open water and sandy bottoms, because the answer pool is far wider than the familiar garden offenders. Once you have a few safe generic ideas, push toward properly named species, since scoring favours precision. Keep a mental note of which branches you have already mined so you do not circle back, and write candidates in clusters: if one member of a group qualifies, its relatives probably do too.
Get a hint
Start with the body part that does the damage: a hollow spine, a barbed tail or a cell that fires on contact narrows the field far faster than habitat or diet ever will.
A little more
Size tells you nothing here, because the same defensive trick turns up in colonial organisms fixed to the seabed and in winged foragers that visit flowers, so scan several distant branches of the tree of life.
One step further
Long lists of this kind reward the obscure end of the catalogue: properly named species and regional forms beat the plain everyday word, so a half-forgotten binomial will usually outscore the first thing you thought of.
Reveal answers 6,671
- Wallace's Giant BeeOne in a Krillion100points
- Abbas ConeDeep Cut85points
- Abbott's ConeDeep Cut85points
- Abbreviated coneDeep Cut85points
- Aberrant Cellophane BeeDeep Cut85points
- Abert's thread-waisted waspDeep Cut85points
- Abrolhos ConeDeep Cut85points
- Abrupt Digger BeeDeep Cut85points
- Abrupt Leather-CoralDeep Cut85points
- Abundantly Punctured Sweat BeeDeep Cut85points
- Acacia antDeep Cut85points
- Acan coralDeep Cut85points
- Accepted Cuckoo Nomad BeeDeep Cut85points
- Achilles' scorpionDeep Cut85points
- Acorn antsDeep Cut85points
- Acorn coneDeep Cut85points
- Acorn cup coralDeep Cut85points
- Acrobat antDeep Cut85points
- Acropora coralDeep Cut85points
- Active bumble beeDeep Cut85points
- Actor Cloak-and-dagger BeeDeep Cut85points
- Adam's scorpionfishDeep Cut85points
- Adamantine sea penDeep Cut85points
- Addo burrowing scorpionDeep Cut85points
- Adelaide Broad-tongueDeep Cut85points
- Adhesive anemoneDeep Cut85points
- Admirable Sweat BeeDeep Cut85points
- Admiral coneDeep Cut85points
- Adorned Austral-Resin beeDeep Cut85points
- Aenictus army antsDeep Cut85points
- Aerial yellowjacketDeep Cut85points
- Aestival Bare-MinerDeep Cut85points
- African beewolfDeep Cut85points
- African big-headed antDeep Cut85points
- African black-tailed scorpionDeep Cut85points
- African Carder BeeDeep Cut85points
- African chimaeraDeep Cut85points
- African ConeDeep Cut85points
- African cricket-hunter waspDeep Cut85points
- African Cuckoo BeeDeep Cut85points
- African EuproctisDeep Cut85points
- African fat-tailed scorpionDeep Cut85points
- African large-spotted scorpionfishDeep Cut85points
- African lionfishDeep Cut85points
- African pillow coralDeep Cut85points
- African Resin BeeDeep Cut85points
- African silk moth caterpillarDeep Cut85points
- African speckled scorpionfishDeep Cut85points
- African spotted scorpionfishDeep Cut85points
- African stink antDeep Cut85points
Why these answers count
The reveal is unusually flat. Of 6,671 recorded answers, 6,650 cleared sixty points, so the whole spread between a middling reply and the best one is twenty-five points, and only a single entry, Wallace's Giant Bee, reached the maximum of 100. That lone outlier says less about taxonomy than about duplication: the scoring pays for being the only person in the room to think of something, not for thinking of a different category. The enormous 85-point band, which includes Abbas Cone, Abbott's Cone, Acacia ant and Achilles' scorpion among thousands of others, is where careful, specific naming lands. Those are full species names, often obscure regional or taxonomic forms, and they beat the everyday word a casual player types first. The 243 answers stuck at 60 are presumably the shortest, most generic or most heavily repeated submissions that still satisfied the criterion. Correctness buys entry into the pack; precision lifts you clear of it; genuine rarity is worth one tier more.