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
- Spring cuckoo Carder beeDeep Cut85points
- Spring tiphiaDeep Cut85points
- Sprinkled LeioproctusDeep Cut85points
- Spun glass slugDeep Cut85points
- Spurge-loving Fairy BeeDeep Cut85points
- Spurred CeratinaDeep Cut85points
- Square-faced mustache antDeep Cut85points
- Square-headed furrow beeDeep Cut85points
- Square-headed Masked BeeDeep Cut85points
- Square-headed waspDeep Cut85points
- Square-jawed Angled-MasonDeep Cut85points
- Square-snouted mustache antDeep Cut85points
- Square-spotted mourning beeDeep Cut85points
- Squaretail rabbitfishDeep Cut85points
- Squash Longhorn-CuckooDeep Cut85points
- Squat furrow beeDeep Cut85points
- Squat Sandy ZoanthidDeep Cut85points
- Squirrel's-tail hydroidDeep Cut85points
- Sri Lanka forest scorpionDeep Cut85points
- Sri Lankan relict antDeep Cut85points
- St Thomas ConeDeep Cut85points
- St. helena deepwater scorpionfishDeep Cut85points
- St. John's JellyfishDeep Cut85points
- Stage's Dufourine BeeDeep Cut85points
- Staghorn acroporaDeep Cut85points
- Stalked Soft-CoralDeep Cut85points
- Stalkeye scorpionfishDeep Cut85points
- Star anemoneDeep Cut85points
- Starburst anemoneDeep Cut85points
- Starflower coralDeep Cut85points
- Stargazing stonefishDeep Cut85points
- Starlet sea anemoneDeep Cut85points
- Starry cup coralDeep Cut85points
- Starry petaloid coralDeep Cut85points
- Starrynose stingrayDeep Cut85points
- Statia beeDeep Cut85points
- Steel-blue cricket hunterDeep Cut85points
- Steel-blue Scimitar-BeeDeep Cut85points
- Steely Black-Oil beeDeep Cut85points
- Steely Orchid BeeDeep Cut85points
- Steenberg rugged ringbum antDeep Cut85points
- Steene's scorpionfishDeep Cut85points
- Steinbeck's aeolidDeep Cut85points
- Steindachner's Bumble BeeDeep Cut85points
- Stellate scorpionfishDeep Cut85points
- Steppe Bumble BeeDeep Cut85points
- Stevens's Cuckoo Nomad BeeDeep Cut85points
- Stick hydroidDeep Cut85points
- Stick-nest Brown Paper WaspDeep Cut85points
- Stigmatic coneDeep 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.