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
- Spinythroat scorpionfishDeep Cut85points
- Spiral coralDeep Cut85points
- Spiral-horned BeeDeep Cut85points
- Spitsberg sea anemoneDeep Cut85points
- Spitting scorpionDeep Cut85points
- Spivak's sweat beeDeep Cut85points
- Splay-footed CarpenterDeep Cut85points
- Splendid CarpenterDeep Cut85points
- Splendid Cellophane-cuckoo BeeDeep Cut85points
- Splendid marbled scorpionDeep Cut85points
- Split-pore black coralDeep Cut85points
- Splitting cup coralDeep Cut85points
- Splitting fan coralDeep Cut85points
- Sponge ZoanthidDeep Cut85points
- Sponsal coneDeep Cut85points
- Spoon ground beeDeep Cut85points
- Sporades collared antDeep Cut85points
- Sporadic Bumble BeeDeep Cut85points
- Spot-fronted Wool-carder BeeDeep Cut85points
- Spot-sided Dark BeeDeep Cut85points
- Spotback scorpionfishDeep Cut85points
- Spotfin lionfishDeep Cut85points
- Spotfin scorpionfishDeep Cut85points
- Spotted coralDeep Cut85points
- Spotted cuckoo spider waspDeep Cut85points
- Spotted dark beeDeep Cut85points
- Spotted eagle rayDeep Cut85points
- Spotted Hairy-eyed Sweat beeDeep Cut85points
- Spotted lagoon jellyDeep Cut85points
- Spotted Mini-digger-CuckooDeep Cut85points
- Spotted muscleman tree antDeep Cut85points
- Spotted Nomad BeeDeep Cut85points
- Spotted Nomiine-CuckooDeep Cut85points
- Spotted red anemoneDeep Cut85points
- Spotted Red Resin beeDeep Cut85points
- Spotted scorpionfishDeep Cut85points
- Spotted spinefootDeep Cut85points
- Spotted stingareeDeep Cut85points
- Spotted stingfishDeep Cut85points
- Spotted stingrayDeep Cut85points
- Spotted stonefishDeep Cut85points
- Spotted Tussock Moth caterpillarDeep Cut85points
- Spotted velvetfishDeep Cut85points
- Spotted weeverDeep Cut85points
- Spotted whiprayDeep Cut85points
- Spotted WoolcarderDeep Cut85points
- Spotted-fin rockfishDeep Cut85points
- Spring Beauty MinerDeep Cut85points
- Spring beauty miner beeDeep Cut85points
- Spring cellophane-cuckoo 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.