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
- Sheep's bit short-faced beeDeep Cut85points
- Sheffield's Sweat BeeDeep Cut85points
- Shelf Resin BeeDeep Cut85points
- Shelf-knob sea rodDeep Cut85points
- Shelford's CarpenterDeep Cut85points
- Shell AnemoneDeep Cut85points
- Sheppard's nomad beeDeep Cut85points
- Shida's YellowjacketDeep Cut85points
- Shield antDeep Cut85points
- Shield-handed waspDeep Cut85points
- Shield-tailed scorpionDeep Cut85points
- Shieldbug digger waspDeep Cut85points
- Shielded Miner BeeDeep Cut85points
- Shifty Miner BeeDeep Cut85points
- Shingle yellow-face beeDeep Cut85points
- Shingled tree coralDeep Cut85points
- Shining dark twig antDeep Cut85points
- Shining guest antDeep Cut85points
- Shining Mini-DiggerDeep Cut85points
- Shining Oil-digger BeeDeep Cut85points
- Shining sea fan coralDeep Cut85points
- Shining-snouted mustache antDeep Cut85points
- Shining-winged Metallic-Furrow beeDeep Cut85points
- Shiny acrobat antDeep Cut85points
- Shiny brown droptail antDeep Cut85points
- Shiny harvester antDeep Cut85points
- Shiny Miner BeeDeep Cut85points
- Shiny short-faced beeDeep Cut85points
- Shiny-blue sculptured miner beeDeep Cut85points
- Shiny-blue Scultpured Miner BeeDeep Cut85points
- Shiny-breasted Sweat BeeDeep Cut85points
- Shiny-faced Cuckoo Sweat BeeDeep Cut85points
- Shiny-gastered furrow beeDeep Cut85points
- Shiny-margined miniature mining beeDeep Cut85points
- Shiny-vented sharp-tailed beeDeep Cut85points
- Shiro coralDeep Cut85points
- Short sea whipDeep Cut85points
- Short sharp-tailed beeDeep Cut85points
- Short Sun-digger BeeDeep Cut85points
- Short-armed waspfishDeep Cut85points
- Short-faced BeeDeep Cut85points
- Short-faced Bumble BeeDeep Cut85points
- Short-fringed mining beeDeep Cut85points
- Short-haired Bumble BeeDeep Cut85points
- Short-haired dogwood andrenaDeep Cut85points
- Short-haired mustache antDeep Cut85points
- Short-horned Cellophane BeeDeep Cut85points
- Short-horned furrow beeDeep Cut85points
- Short-horned yellow-face beeDeep Cut85points
- Short-palped MinerDeep 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.