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
- South African digger waspDeep Cut85points
- South African Music ConeDeep Cut85points
- South American cicada-killer waspDeep Cut85points
- South American forest scorpionDeep Cut85points
- South American freshwater stingrayDeep Cut85points
- South American sea nettleDeep Cut85points
- South Indian scorpionDeep Cut85points
- South-western Nomad scorpionDeep Cut85points
- Southeastern Ashmeadiella BeeDeep Cut85points
- Southeastern Little Leaf-cutter BeeDeep Cut85points
- Southeastern WoodborerDeep Cut85points
- Southern anemoneDeep Cut85points
- Southern antDeep Cut85points
- Southern Australian Paper WaspDeep Cut85points
- Southern baeolidiaDeep Cut85points
- Southern black scorpionDeep Cut85points
- Southern bullroutDeep Cut85points
- Southern Carpenter BeeDeep Cut85points
- Southern cellophane-cuckoo beeDeep Cut85points
- Southern cerianthidDeep Cut85points
- Southern cocktail antDeep Cut85points
- Southern creeping scorpionDeep Cut85points
- Southern crypt antDeep Cut85points
- Southern cup-coralDeep Cut85points
- Southern curltail antDeep Cut85points
- Southern eagle rayDeep Cut85points
- Southern fierce antDeep Cut85points
- Southern Giant HornetDeep Cut85points
- Southern house antDeep Cut85points
- Southern michelin antDeep Cut85points
- Southern Miner BeeDeep Cut85points
- Southern Mining BeeDeep Cut85points
- Southern moon jellyDeep Cut85points
- Southern no-line scorpionfishDeep Cut85points
- Southern pit-jawed antDeep Cut85points
- Southern Plains bumblebeeDeep Cut85points
- Southern Plains LonghornDeep Cut85points
- Southern porthole antDeep Cut85points
- Southern red scorpionfishDeep Cut85points
- Southern rock scorpionDeep Cut85points
- Southern soft coralDeep Cut85points
- Southern stargazerDeep Cut85points
- Southern stingrayDeep Cut85points
- Southern timid antDeep Cut85points
- Southern trap-jaw antDeep Cut85points
- Southern Tussock Moth caterpillarDeep Cut85points
- Southern unstriped scorpionDeep Cut85points
- Southern YellowjacketDeep Cut85points
- Southwestern ShortfaceDeep Cut85points
- Soutpansberg rock scorpionDeep 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.