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
- Suriname Orchid BeeDeep Cut85points
- Susan's Cellophane BeeDeep Cut85points
- Susanna's Cellophane BeeDeep Cut85points
- Sutured ConeDeep Cut85points
- Swainson's legionary antDeep Cut85points
- Swan MothDeep Cut85points
- Swarm-founding waspDeep Cut85points
- Sweat beeDeep Cut85points
- Swelling coralDeep Cut85points
- Swenk's Fairy BeeDeep Cut85points
- Swenk's miner beeDeep Cut85points
- Swenk's Sweat BeeDeep Cut85points
- Swimming CynaraDeep Cut85points
- Swollen sea fan coralDeep Cut85points
- Swollen-claw lesser-thicktail scorpionDeep Cut85points
- Swollen-thighed blood beeDeep Cut85points
- Swollenstinger scorpionDeep Cut85points
- Sycamore Tussock MothDeep Cut85points
- Sydney scorpionfishDeep Cut85points
- Symbiotic colonial anemoneDeep Cut85points
- Symmetrical Brain CoralDeep Cut85points
- Syrian harvester antDeep Cut85points
- Syrian honey beeDeep Cut85points
- Table coralDeep Cut85points
- Table Mountain lesser-thicktail scorpionDeep Cut85points
- Tabling AcroporaDeep Cut85points
- Tailbar lionfishDeep Cut85points
- Tailed jellyDeep Cut85points
- Taiwan Bumble BeeDeep Cut85points
- Taiwan Bumble-bee CarpenterDeep Cut85points
- Taiwan Cellophane BeeDeep Cut85points
- Taiwan Reticulate-Furrow beeDeep Cut85points
- Taiwan yellow tussock mothDeep Cut85points
- Taiwan YellowjacketDeep Cut85points
- Takau Austral-NomiaDeep Cut85points
- Tall sea penDeep Cut85points
- Tam o'shanter urchinDeep Cut85points
- Tan bushy soft coralDeep Cut85points
- Tan cup coralDeep Cut85points
- Tan Scaly MinerDeep Cut85points
- Tandil LonghornDeep Cut85points
- Tanna CerberillaDeep Cut85points
- Tannie cocktail antDeep Cut85points
- Tansy mustard sweat beeDeep Cut85points
- Tanzanian red-clawed scorpionDeep Cut85points
- Tapajós freshwater stingrayDeep Cut85points
- Tapered Mason WaspDeep Cut85points
- Tasmanian inchman antDeep Cut85points
- Tassel Large Carpenter BeeDeep Cut85points
- Tasselled scorpionfishDeep 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.