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
- Toothed AnthelidDeep Cut85points
- Toothed big-headed antDeep Cut85points
- Toothed bull antDeep Cut85points
- Toothed Cuckoo BeeDeep Cut85points
- Toothed Masked BeeDeep Cut85points
- Toothed MinerDeep Cut85points
- Toothed Miner BeeDeep Cut85points
- Toothed no-line scorpionfishDeep Cut85points
- Toothed scorpionDeep Cut85points
- Toothless bull antDeep Cut85points
- Topaz cuckoo beeDeep Cut85points
- Topaz Miner BeeDeep Cut85points
- Torch coralDeep Cut85points
- Tormentil mining beeDeep Cut85points
- Tormentil nomad beeDeep Cut85points
- Tortonese's stingrayDeep Cut85points
- Tosh's whiprayDeep Cut85points
- Townes' Blood BeeDeep Cut85points
- Trans-Pecos twinspine scorpionDeep Cut85points
- Transitory MinerDeep Cut85points
- Transvaal cocktail antDeep Cut85points
- Transvaal pygmy-thicktail scorpionDeep Cut85points
- Transvaal thicktail scorpionDeep Cut85points
- Trap-jaw antDeep Cut85points
- Treat's collared antDeep Cut85points
- Tree anemoneDeep Cut85points
- Tree Brown Paper WaspDeep Cut85points
- Tree coralDeep Cut85points
- Tree creeper scorpionDeep Cut85points
- Tree scorpionDeep Cut85points
- Tree-hole mustache antDeep Cut85points
- Trevor's miner beeDeep Cut85points
- Tribble's ConeDeep Cut85points
- Tricolor anemoneDeep Cut85points
- Tricolor Buck MothDeep Cut85points
- Tricolor nudibranchDeep Cut85points
- Tricolored bumble beeDeep Cut85points
- Tricolored Turret BeeDeep Cut85points
- Tridentate MinerDeep Cut85points
- Tridentate Small-MasonDeep Cut85points
- Trifling fierce antDeep Cut85points
- Trilobed Masked BeeDeep Cut85points
- Trimmer's mining beeDeep Cut85points
- Trinidad Small-Resin beeDeep Cut85points
- Trinidad thick-tailed scorpionDeep Cut85points
- Tripartite Sweat BeeDeep Cut85points
- Triplaris antDeep Cut85points
- Tripleband scorpionfishDeep Cut85points
- Troglodyte trap-jaw antDeep Cut85points
- Tropical Paper WaspDeep 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.