Krillion Recorded answers
6,682 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 6,682
- Sea plumeDeep Cut85points
- Sea plume hydroidDeep Cut85points
- Sea rodDeep Cut85points
- Sea spleenwortDeep Cut85points
- Sea strawberryDeep Cut85points
- Sea tamariskDeep Cut85points
- Sea thread hydroidDeep Cut85points
- Sea-daisyDeep Cut85points
- Sea-fan anemoneDeep Cut85points
- SeabellsDeep Cut85points
- Seafan HydroidDeep Cut85points
- Seafarer's ghost sharkDeep Cut85points
- Seagrass rabbitfishDeep Cut85points
- Sealoch anemoneDeep Cut85points
- Seaside big-headed antDeep Cut85points
- Sebae anemoneDeep Cut85points
- Sedum Sweat BeeDeep Cut85points
- Segmented Turret BeeDeep Cut85points
- Seillean Sweat BeeDeep Cut85points
- Semenov's Bumble BeeDeep Cut85points
- Semenovian Bumble BeeDeep Cut85points
- Semiflavate interrupted spider waspDeep Cut85points
- Seminole twig antDeep Cut85points
- Senegalese rockfishDeep Cut85points
- Senior CarpenterDeep Cut85points
- Sentinel LeioproctusDeep Cut85points
- Sepia stingrayDeep Cut85points
- Seret's butterfly rayDeep Cut85points
- Serpent coralDeep Cut85points
- Serpentine cup coralDeep Cut85points
- Serrated deepwater scorpionfishDeep Cut85points
- Sesriem scorpionDeep Cut85points
- Seven-spined WoolcarderDeep Cut85points
- Seven-toothed Red Resin beeDeep Cut85points
- Seychelles forest scorpionDeep Cut85points
- Seychelles giant scorpionDeep Cut85points
- Shadow-winged Resin BeeDeep Cut85points
- Shag-rug aeolisDeep Cut85points
- Shaggy Bamboo CoralDeep Cut85points
- Shaggy beeDeep Cut85points
- Shaggy Flower-loving Digger BeeDeep Cut85points
- Shaggy furrow beeDeep Cut85points
- Sharp-angled coneDeep Cut85points
- Sharp-collared furrow beeDeep Cut85points
- Sharp-lined Tussock MothDeep Cut85points
- Sharp-tailed beeDeep Cut85points
- Sharpnose stingrayDeep Cut85points
- Sharpnose whiprayDeep Cut85points
- Sharpsnout stingrayDeep Cut85points
- Shattered Plains sweat beeDeep 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.