Krillion Recorded answers
6,677 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 6,677
- Belle Nomad BeeDeep Cut85points
- Bellflower blunthorn beeDeep Cut85points
- Bellflower resin beeDeep Cut85points
- Bellflower ShortfaceDeep Cut85points
- Bellicose Bumble BeeDeep Cut85points
- Belted coneDeep Cut85points
- Belted Longhorn-CuckooDeep Cut85points
- Belted Orchid beeDeep Cut85points
- Belted WoolcarderDeep Cut85points
- Bembix sand waspDeep Cut85points
- Bengal coneDeep Cut85points
- Bengal whiprayDeep Cut85points
- BennettDeep Cut85points
- Bennett's Orchid BeeDeep Cut85points
- Bennett's stingrayDeep Cut85points
- Bent sea rodDeep Cut85points
- Bent-spined acorn antDeep Cut85points
- Bentnose rabbitfishDeep Cut85points
- Bequaert's Fairy BeeDeep Cut85points
- Bequaert's Paper WaspDeep Cut85points
- Bequaert's perditaDeep Cut85points
- Bequaert's Resin-Leafcutter BeeDeep Cut85points
- Bequaert's Scimitar BeeDeep Cut85points
- Berghia nudibranchDeep Cut85points
- Bering sea fan coralDeep Cut85points
- Bermuda coneDeep Cut85points
- Berried anemoneDeep Cut85points
- Berry coneDeep Cut85points
- Bertsch's aeolidDeep Cut85points
- Bertsch's rainbow aeolidDeep Cut85points
- Bessey's Nomad BeeDeep Cut85points
- Bethune's Cuckoo Nomad BeeDeep Cut85points
- Bewick's coralDeep Cut85points
- Bi-lobed Cuckoo Sweat BeeDeep Cut85points
- Bianca's coneDeep Cut85points
- Bicolor gorgonianDeep Cut85points
- Bicolor rabbitfishDeep Cut85points
- Bicolored Cellophane BeeDeep Cut85points
- Bicolored fierce antDeep Cut85points
- Bicolored harvester antDeep Cut85points
- Bicolored leafcutter beeDeep Cut85points
- Bicolored pennant antDeep Cut85points
- Bicolored shield antDeep Cut85points
- Bicolored Striped Sweat BeeDeep Cut85points
- Bicolored trailing antDeep Cut85points
- Bicoloured Bumble BeeDeep Cut85points
- Bicoloured Euproctis caterpillarDeep Cut85points
- Bicoloured MinerDeep Cut85points
- Bicoloured Thick-Resin beeDeep Cut85points
- Bicuspidaria Blazingstar-ShortfaceDeep 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.