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
- Tassled ScorpionfishDeep Cut85points
- Tatiana's river stingrayDeep Cut85points
- Taurus Mason BeeDeep Cut85points
- Tawny CarpenterDeep Cut85points
- Tawny collared antDeep Cut85points
- Tawny mining beeDeep Cut85points
- Tawny NesocolletesDeep Cut85points
- Tawny-legged Furrow BeeDeep Cut85points
- Tawny-legged jack jumper antDeep Cut85points
- Tawny-veined Small-NomiaDeep Cut85points
- Taylor's Sweat BeeDeep Cut85points
- Tchelichof's pharaoh antDeep Cut85points
- Tea tussock mothDeep Cut85points
- Teddy bear beeDeep Cut85points
- Tellian honey beeDeep Cut85points
- Temperate scorpionfishDeep Cut85points
- Ten coralDeep Cut85points
- Ten-ray star coralDeep Cut85points
- Ten-tentacle burrowing anemoneDeep Cut85points
- Tender ConeDeep Cut85points
- Tendineus coneDeep Cut85points
- Tennessee collared antDeep Cut85points
- Tennessee thief antDeep Cut85points
- Tenochtitlan Aztec-Resin beeDeep Cut85points
- Tentacle scorpionfishDeep Cut85points
- Tentacle-shedding anemoneDeep Cut85points
- Tentacled butterfly rayDeep Cut85points
- Tepanec Long-horned BeeDeep Cut85points
- Tephra Tussock MothDeep Cut85points
- Tepic big-headed antDeep Cut85points
- Termite-raiding antDeep Cut85points
- Tessellate coneDeep Cut85points
- Tessellate sweat beeDeep Cut85points
- Tetewan Nocturnal-Sweat beeDeep Cut85points
- Texas acorn antDeep Cut85points
- Texas Buck MothDeep Cut85points
- Texas Carpenter BeeDeep Cut85points
- Texas cave scorpionDeep Cut85points
- Texas collared antDeep Cut85points
- Texas Cuckoo Nomad BeeDeep Cut85points
- Texas Leafcutter BeeDeep Cut85points
- Texas legionary antDeep Cut85points
- Texas Longhorn BeeDeep Cut85points
- Texas Mason BeeDeep Cut85points
- Texas Nocturnal Sweat BeeDeep Cut85points
- Texas Nomad BeeDeep Cut85points
- Texas OsmiaDeep Cut85points
- Texas Pebble BeeDeep Cut85points
- Texas Striped Sweat BeeDeep Cut85points
- Texas thief antDeep 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.