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
- Texas warty anemoneDeep Cut85points
- Textile coneDeep Cut85points
- Thai Epaulette-NomiaDeep Cut85points
- Thenarian burrowing anemoneDeep Cut85points
- Theodore's Masked BeeDeep Cut85points
- Thick finger coralDeep Cut85points
- Thick-handed scorpionDeep Cut85points
- Thick-horned big-headed antDeep Cut85points
- Thick-legged NomiaDeep Cut85points
- Thick-margined miniature mining beeDeep Cut85points
- Thick-node house antDeep Cut85points
- Thickspine giant stingrayDeep Cut85points
- Thimble jellyfishDeep Cut85points
- Thin birdsnest coralDeep Cut85points
- Thin cauliflower coralDeep Cut85points
- Thin finger coralDeep Cut85points
- Thin tube coralDeep Cut85points
- Thin-legged NeocorynuraDeep Cut85points
- Thin-line ConeDeep Cut85points
- Thisbe's tarantula-hawk waspDeep Cut85points
- Thistle Longhorn-CuckooDeep Cut85points
- Thistle Small-Carder beeDeep Cut85points
- Thistledown velvet antDeep Cut85points
- Thompson's thief antDeep Cut85points
- Thomson's sea penDeep Cut85points
- Thorn coralDeep Cut85points
- Thorn Dauber BeeDeep Cut85points
- Thornbush hydroidDeep Cut85points
- Thorntail stingrayDeep Cut85points
- Thorny freshwater stingrayDeep Cut85points
- Thorny river stingrayDeep Cut85points
- Thorny round stingrayDeep Cut85points
- Thorny sea penDeep Cut85points
- Thorny stingrayDeep Cut85points
- Thousand-spot coneDeep Cut85points
- Thread-waisted hunting waspDeep Cut85points
- Thread-waisted sand waspDeep Cut85points
- Three-banded Mason WaspDeep Cut85points
- Three-banded scoliid waspDeep Cut85points
- Three-banded wasp-cuckooDeep Cut85points
- Three-sectioned Orchid BeeDeep Cut85points
- Three-spined ScorpionfishDeep Cut85points
- Three-spot RabbitfishDeep Cut85points
- Three-spotted Masked BeeDeep Cut85points
- Three-spotted TussockDeep Cut85points
- Three-striped Austral-LonghornDeep Cut85points
- Three-striped Bumble BeeDeep Cut85points
- Three-striped Fairy BeeDeep Cut85points
- Three-zoned miner beeDeep Cut85points
- Three-zoned 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.