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
- Short-quill sea penDeep Cut85points
- Short-spined crown-of-thorns starfishDeep Cut85points
- Short-spined nomad beeDeep Cut85points
- Short-sting thicktail scorpionDeep Cut85points
- Short-tail stingrayDeep Cut85points
- Short-tail whiprayDeep Cut85points
- Short-tailed ichneumonDeep Cut85points
- Short-tailed river stingrayDeep Cut85points
- Short-tongued miner beeDeep Cut85points
- Short-tube scorpionfishDeep Cut85points
- Shortail round stingrayDeep Cut85points
- Shortface beeDeep Cut85points
- Shortfin lionfishDeep Cut85points
- Shortfin scorpionfishDeep Cut85points
- Shortnose ChimaeraDeep Cut85points
- Shortnose eagle rayDeep Cut85points
- Shortnose scorpionfishDeep Cut85points
- Shortsnout scorpionfishDeep Cut85points
- Shorttail black stingrayDeep Cut85points
- Shorttail scorpionDeep Cut85points
- Shoulderblade coralDeep Cut85points
- Shrewd Sweat BeeDeep Cut85points
- Shrill carder beeDeep Cut85points
- Shuckard's waspDeep Cut85points
- Siberian Chinese-Resin beeDeep Cut85points
- Siboga ConeDeep Cut85points
- Siboga cuthonaDeep Cut85points
- Sichel's Austral-NomiaDeep Cut85points
- Sichel's Bumble BeeDeep Cut85points
- Sicilian honey beeDeep Cut85points
- Sicilian Mortar BeeDeep Cut85points
- Sicilian Red-Resin beeDeep Cut85points
- Sickle hydroidDeep Cut85points
- Sickle-jawed blood beeDeep Cut85points
- Sicklespur Trouser BeeDeep Cut85points
- Sigmund's Mining BeeDeep Cut85points
- Signet ring anemoneDeep Cut85points
- Silk waspDeep Cut85points
- Silky medusaDeep Cut85points
- Silky sea anemoneDeep Cut85points
- Silky Striped Sweat BeeDeep Cut85points
- Sill Dauber BeeDeep Cut85points
- Silver chimaeraDeep Cut85points
- Silver rabbitfishDeep Cut85points
- Silver spinefootDeep Cut85points
- Silver spiny digger waspDeep Cut85points
- Silver-sided nomad beeDeep Cut85points
- Silver-spotted sea anemoneDeep Cut85points
- Silver-spotted Tiger Moth caterpillarDeep Cut85points
- Silver-tailed Petal-cutter 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.