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
- StingfishDeep Cut85points
- Stinging anemoneDeep Cut85points
- Stinging Bush HydroidDeep Cut85points
- Stinging hydroidDeep Cut85points
- Stinging hydrozoanDeep Cut85points
- Stinging mangrove anemoneDeep Cut85points
- Stinging rose caterpillarDeep Cut85points
- Stingray coneDeep Cut85points
- Stink bug hunter waspDeep Cut85points
- Stoddard's harvester antDeep Cut85points
- Stone scorpionfishDeep Cut85points
- Stone-leaf coralDeep Cut85points
- Stone's BuckmothDeep Cut85points
- Storey anemoneDeep Cut85points
- Stormy ConeDeep Cut85points
- Stottler's miner beeDeep Cut85points
- Stoutspine waspfishDeep Cut85points
- Straight sea whipDeep Cut85points
- Straightnose rabbitfishDeep Cut85points
- Strand's Carpenter BeeDeep Cut85points
- Strandveld hotrod antDeep Cut85points
- Strange-winged CalliopsisDeep Cut85points
- Strawberry anemoneDeep Cut85points
- Strawberry Cake MothDeep Cut85points
- Strawberry corallimorpharianDeep Cut85points
- Strawberry shortcake AcroporaDeep Cut85points
- Streaked SpinefootDeep Cut85points
- Streaked Tussock Moth caterpillarDeep Cut85points
- Striate finger coralDeep Cut85points
- Striated antDeep Cut85points
- Striated coneDeep Cut85points
- Stridulating thicktail scorpionDeep Cut85points
- String jellyfishDeep Cut85points
- Stripe-backed Resin-LeafcutterDeep Cut85points
- Stripe-headed MeroglossaDeep Cut85points
- Stripe-tailed scorpionDeep Cut85points
- Striped bark scorpionDeep Cut85points
- Striped bum coralDeep Cut85points
- Striped eel catfishDeep Cut85points
- Striped FjordiaDeep Cut85points
- Striped lesser-thicktail scorpionDeep Cut85points
- Striped NomiaDeep Cut85points
- Striped nudibranchDeep Cut85points
- Striped rabbitfishDeep Cut85points
- Striped Small Carpenter BeeDeep Cut85points
- Striped stingareeDeep Cut85points
- Striped Sweat BeeDeep Cut85points
- Studer's carnation coralDeep Cut85points
- Stuhlmann's jellyfishDeep Cut85points
- stunning sweat 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.