Krillion Recorded answers
6,677 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 6,677
- Big bend harvester antDeep Cut85points
- Big Bend scorpionDeep Cut85points
- Big Black Large Carpenter BeeDeep Cut85points
- Big Buzzing BeeDeep Cut85points
- Big Digger BeeDeep Cut85points
- Big eye chimaeraDeep Cut85points
- Big pink jellyfishDeep Cut85points
- Big red jellyfishDeep Cut85points
- Big Red Large Carpenter BeeDeep Cut85points
- Big White Banded Digger BeeDeep Cut85points
- Big-cheeked Angled-MasonDeep Cut85points
- Big-eyed harvester antDeep Cut85points
- Big-headed AndrenaDeep Cut85points
- Big-headed antDeep Cut85points
- Big-headed Fairy BeeDeep Cut85points
- Big-headed fierce antDeep Cut85points
- Big-headed Large Carpenter BeeDeep Cut85points
- Big-jawed Carder BeeDeep Cut85points
- Big-leaf coralDeep Cut85points
- Big-toothed Dauber BeeDeep Cut85points
- Bigmouth scorpionfishDeep Cut85points
- Bigscale scorpionfishDeep Cut85points
- Bigtooth river stingrayDeep Cut85points
- Bilberry bumblebeeDeep Cut85points
- Bilberry mining beeDeep Cut85points
- Bilberry nomad beeDeep Cut85points
- Bilimek's big-headed antDeep Cut85points
- Bilious ConeDeep Cut85points
- Bindweed Turret BeeDeep Cut85points
- Bingham Small CarpenterDeep Cut85points
- Bingham's Giant beeDeep Cut85points
- Bingham's HornetDeep Cut85points
- Bipinnate sea plumeDeep Cut85points
- Bird wing scorpionfishDeep Cut85points
- Birdsnest coralDeep Cut85points
- Birkmann's Sweat BeeDeep Cut85points
- Birtwell's miner beeDeep Cut85points
- Biscay glass anemoneDeep Cut85points
- Biscay sea fan coralDeep Cut85points
- Bishopp's PerditaDeep Cut85points
- Bismarck waspfishDeep Cut85points
- Bisulcate Small-MasonDeep Cut85points
- Bittercress Cuckoo Nomad BeeDeep Cut85points
- Bituberculate Masked BeeDeep Cut85points
- Black and blue miner beeDeep Cut85points
- Black and gold bumblebeeDeep Cut85points
- Black and white lesser mason beeDeep Cut85points
- Black Arches caterpillarDeep Cut85points
- Black army antDeep Cut85points
- Black Austral-Small carpenterDeep 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.