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
- Smooth-spined tree coralDeep Cut85points
- Smooth-tooth aeolisDeep Cut85points
- Smoothfoot docile scorpionDeep Cut85points
- Smoothspined snailfurDeep Cut85points
- Snail furDeep Cut85points
- Snail Shell Resin BeeDeep Cut85points
- Snail trefoil hydroidDeep Cut85points
- Snake brain coralDeep Cut85points
- Snakelocks anemoneDeep Cut85points
- SnakewaspDeep Cut85points
- Snap-jaw antDeep Cut85points
- Snappy gremlin antDeep Cut85points
- Snatching sand waspDeep Cut85points
- Sneaking antDeep Cut85points
- Snellen's paper waspDeep Cut85points
- Snouted eagle rayDeep Cut85points
- Snow-clad Tussock caterpillarDeep Cut85points
- Snow-Flaked ConeDeep Cut85points
- Snow's Cuckoo Nomad BeeDeep Cut85points
- Snow's Longhorn BeeDeep Cut85points
- Snowflake coralDeep Cut85points
- Snowy AndrenaDeep Cut85points
- Snowy Bumble BeeDeep Cut85points
- Snowy Masked BeeDeep Cut85points
- Snowy MasonDeep Cut85points
- Snowy Mining BeeDeep Cut85points
- Socotra Zoned-Furrow beeDeep Cut85points
- Soda lake scorpionDeep Cut85points
- Soft bell hydroidDeep Cut85points
- Solanum ExomalopsisDeep Cut85points
- Soldier coneDeep Cut85points
- Soleglad's small wood-scorpionDeep Cut85points
- Solemn gremlin antDeep Cut85points
- Solitary cup coralDeep Cut85points
- Solitary disk coralDeep Cut85points
- Solitary gorgonian hydroidDeep Cut85points
- Solitary pendulaDeep Cut85points
- Solitary pink-mouth hydroidDeep Cut85points
- Solitary sponge hydroidDeep Cut85points
- Somaliland thicktail scorpionDeep Cut85points
- Sonan's Bumble BeeDeep Cut85points
- Sonora scorpionfishDeep Cut85points
- Sonoran Angled-MasonDeep Cut85points
- Sonoran bumble beeDeep Cut85points
- Sonoran Red Paper WaspDeep Cut85points
- Sooty creeping scorpionDeep Cut85points
- Sooty LonghornDeep Cut85points
- Sordid cocktail antDeep Cut85points
- South African blue stingrayDeep Cut85points
- South African box jellyfishDeep 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.