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
- Small staghorn coralDeep Cut85points
- Small star coralDeep Cut85points
- Small thicktail scorpionDeep Cut85points
- Small tiphiaDeep Cut85points
- Small tree bumble beeDeep Cut85points
- Small velvet antDeep Cut85points
- Small White-haired Sweat BeeDeep Cut85points
- Small willow miner beeDeep Cut85points
- Small wood-scorpionDeep Cut85points
- Small-coned coralDeep Cut85points
- Small-flecked mining beeDeep Cut85points
- Small-handed Leaf-cutter BeeDeep Cut85points
- Small-headed resin beeDeep Cut85points
- Small-lined acrobat antDeep Cut85points
- Smaller Masked BeeDeep Cut85points
- Smaller parasaDeep Cut85points
- Smalleye stingrayDeep Cut85points
- Smalleyed rabbitfishDeep Cut85points
- Smalleyed round stingrayDeep Cut85points
- Smallspine discus stingrayDeep Cut85points
- Smalltooth stingrayDeep Cut85points
- Smeathman's furrow beeDeep Cut85points
- Smith's Potter WaspDeep Cut85points
- Smith's scorpionfishDeep Cut85points
- Smoked Tussock caterpillarDeep Cut85points
- Smoky ConeDeep Cut85points
- Smoky-winged beetle bandit waspDeep Cut85points
- Smooth back river stingrayDeep Cut85points
- Smooth black coralDeep Cut85points
- Smooth bum coralDeep Cut85points
- Smooth burrowing anemoneDeep Cut85points
- Smooth butterfly rayDeep Cut85points
- Smooth cauliflower coralDeep Cut85points
- Smooth Cellophane-cuckoo BeeDeep Cut85points
- Smooth creeping scorpionDeep Cut85points
- Smooth flower coralDeep Cut85points
- Smooth freshwater stingrayDeep Cut85points
- Smooth harvester antDeep Cut85points
- Smooth rugged ringbum antDeep Cut85points
- Smooth star coralDeep Cut85points
- Smooth-backed fierce antDeep Cut85points
- smooth-backed sweat beeDeep Cut85points
- Smooth-cheek scorpionfishDeep Cut85points
- Smooth-claw thicktail scorpionDeep Cut85points
- Smooth-faced furrow beeDeep Cut85points
- Smooth-fronted Broad-tongueDeep Cut85points
- Smooth-gastered furrow beeDeep Cut85points
- Smooth-head scorpionfishDeep Cut85points
- Smooth-skin scorpionfishDeep Cut85points
- Smooth-snouted mustache antDeep 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.