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
- Silvergray rockfishDeep Cut85points
- Silvery leafcutter beeDeep Cut85points
- Silvery Pantaloon BeeDeep Cut85points
- Silvestri’s pygmy snapping antDeep Cut85points
- Simba CratenaDeep Cut85points
- Similar CarpenterDeep Cut85points
- Similar Lettered Small carpenterDeep Cut85points
- Similar Reed BeeDeep Cut85points
- Simonelli's collared antDeep Cut85points
- Simopelta army antDeep Cut85points
- Simple Longhorn-CuckooDeep Cut85points
- Simple Miner BeeDeep Cut85points
- Simple twig antDeep Cut85points
- Simple yellow-faced beeDeep Cut85points
- Sin City scorpionDeep Cut85points
- Singapore antDeep Cut85points
- Singapore LeafcutterDeep Cut85points
- Singapore Plume-vented BeeDeep Cut85points
- Singed coneDeep Cut85points
- Singed NomadDeep Cut85points
- Single-stalk aeolisDeep Cut85points
- Singular Chimney-bee-cuckooDeep Cut85points
- Singular Miner BeeDeep Cut85points
- Singular Pebble BeeDeep Cut85points
- Singular sea fanDeep Cut85points
- Sinuous cactus coralDeep Cut85points
- Sinuous cup coralDeep Cut85points
- sinuous sea fanDeep Cut85points
- Sipunculid anemoneDeep Cut85points
- Sister-in-law Dauber BeeDeep Cut85points
- Sisterly MeroglossaDeep Cut85points
- Sitka bumble beeDeep Cut85points
- Sivickis' box jellyfishDeep Cut85points
- Six-Banded Blue BeeDeep Cut85points
- Six-banded nomad beeDeep Cut85points
- Six-banded Sweat BeeDeep Cut85points
- Six-ray Star CoralDeep Cut85points
- Six-spotted PerditaDeep Cut85points
- Six-spotted scoliid waspDeep Cut85points
- Six-spotted wasp-cuckooDeep Cut85points
- Sixgill stingrayDeep Cut85points
- Sixteen-spotted Cuckoo Carder BeeDeep Cut85points
- sky blue coralDeep Cut85points
- Sladen's miner beeDeep Cut85points
- Slave-raiding acorn antDeep Cut85points
- Slender borerDeep Cut85points
- Slender coneDeep Cut85points
- Slender digger waspDeep Cut85points
- Slender EolisDeep Cut85points
- Slender gilded coralDeep 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.